Dr. Y.B. Talwalkar’s family describes him as a man who always knew what he wanted. Growing up in India, Dr. Talwalkar knew he wanted to be a doctor from an early age. His father died of a heart attack when he was 10, and he never lost his focus on medicine after that. The first […]
It was July 1905 in Indiana, and the doctor had lost all hope of a recovery for his patient, Silvanus Kingsley, who was suffering from typhoid fever. But his nurse, Grace Phelps, refused to give up — claiming she had not lost a typhoid patient yet and did not want to begin now. “The case […]
OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital has recruited Yoon-Jae Cho, M.D., thanks to a new endowed professorship from Wayne and Sandy Ericksen. Dr. Cho is the chief of the Division of Pediatric Neurology, Ericksen Family Endowed Professor for Research, and scientific director of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Program. He is also a graduate of OHSU School of […]
OHSU and Sky Lakes Medical Center of Klamath Falls are partnering to construct a collaborative health care building that will support the OHSU Campus for Rural Health, which formally launched in fall 2015. The rural campus builds on existing OHSU resources and programs to develop new ways to meet diverse rural health care needs. The […]
OHSU Knight Cancer Institute Director Brian Druker, M.D., is famous for ignoring the conventional wisdom. He disregarded those who called his research “voodoo science” and his work resulted in GleevecTM – a landmark drug proven effective in 10 types of cancer. In selecting Sadik Esener, Ph.D., to lead the institute’s newly established Center for Early […]
In April 2016, OHSU announced that Gary and Christine Rood, of Vancouver, Wash., had gifted $12 million for the OHSU guest house project. Funded entirely by private philanthropy, the new five-story guest house will provide a supportive and comfortable home base for out-of-town patients receiving specialized care at OHSU. The facility will be named the […]
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