Marina Wolf awarded for mentoring in Neuroscience

Marina Wolf, Ph.D., professor of behavioral neuroscience in the OHSU School of Medicine, was awarded the Bernice Grafstein Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Mentoring by the Society for Neuroscience. The award recognizes individuals dedicated to developing the careers of female neuroscientists.

Wolf is known for her staunch support of students and postdoctoral fellows in her laboratory throughout their careers. She is also dedicated to inspiring women to consider careers in neuroscience and mentoring neuroscientists so that they remain in the field. She considers mentoring efforts in both her laboratory and through these organizations to be highlights of her career.

Wolf is a leading researcher in the neurobiology of substance use disorders. Her research on the role of synaptic plasticity in animal models of drug addiction has implications for treating substance use disorders in humans.

The Society for Neuroscience is the world’s largest organization of scientists and physicians devoted to understanding the brain and the nervous system.

Share link: https://news.ohsu.edu/2024/10/21/accolades-awards-honors-and-appointments-october#MarinaWolf

 

Jennifer DeVoe appointed as vice chair of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Board

Jennifer DeVoe, M.D., D.Phil., professor and chair of family medicine in the OHSU School of Medicine, was appointed to a second term as vice chairperson of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, or PCORI, Board of Governors, by the Comptroller General of the United States. She will serve another six-year term, until Sept. 2030.

PCORI was established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. It is an independent, nonprofit research funding organization, and is the leading funder of patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research in the U.S.

Share link: https://news.ohsu.edu/2024/10/21/accolades-awards-honors-and-appointments-october#JenniferDeVoe

 

David Dorr earns grant for health information technology

David Dorr, M.D., M.S., professor and vice chair of medical informatics and clinical epidemiology and professor of medicine in the OHSU School of Medicine, has been awarded a $2 million 2024 Leading Edge Acceleration Projects (LEAP) in Health Information Technology grant.

The National Coordinator for Health Information Technology awarded two universities, OHSU and Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, each $1 million through the LEAP in Health IT program.  

The grant will support the OHSU Behavioral Health eCarePlan Collaborative Project, which aims to increase the patient-centeredness of the care planning process while reducing the time and effort needed for integrating information at behavioral health clinics. Behavioral health clinics need to — and currently cannot easily — exchange key health information with patients and care sites to co-create patient-driven, holistic care plans. Care plans must integrate multimodal treatment approaches including counseling, medications, coordination, and social and behavioral self-management components with patient-driven goals.

Dorr and his project team at OHSU will focus on adapting two open-source applications that support care planning, MyCarePlanner (patient-facing) and eCarePlanner (clinical team-facing). These applications extract key information from health records related to the needs of people with chronic health conditions and display information in several domains.

Share link: https://news.ohsu.edu/2024/10/21/accolades-awards-honors-and-appointments-october#DavidDorr

 

Vishnu Mohan awarded grant from National Library of Medicine

Vishnu Mohan, M.D., M.B.I., FACP, FAMIA, program director, clinical informatics subspecialty fellowship, professor and vice chair for education, medical informatics, and clinical epidemiology in the OHSU School of Medicine, in September was awarded a four-year, more than $2.6 million grant, from National Library of Medicine.

Physicians spend an increasing amount of time on electronic health records. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the two most widely adopted solutions were Speech Recognition and Medical Scribes. With the broad adoption of telemedicine, two additional solutions, Virtual Scribes and Digital Scribes began to be employed for both in-person and telemedicine visits.

Mohan’s research study seeks to develop a comprehensive, mixed-methods approach to help organizations select and evaluate these modes of electronic assistance across ambulatory care environments. His project is titled “Evaluation of Impact of Electronic Health Record Documentation Assistant Modalities on Provider and System Level Outcomes.”

Share link: https://news.ohsu.edu/2024/10/21/accolades-awards-honors-and-appointments-october#VishnuMohan

 

William Hersh named a distinguished fellow

William Hersh, M.D., professor of medical informatics and clinical epidemiology, was honored as a distinguished fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, or ACMI, in recognition of “significant and sustained contributions to the field of medical informatics.”

The honor is reserved for those who have made significant contributions to ACMI through policy, practice, research, and service. Only 19 other fellows have received this distinction since the program began in 2020. One other OHSU Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology faculty member is a distinguished fellow of ACMI, Professor Emerita Joan Ash, Ph.D.

ACMI is an honorary college of elected informatics fellows from the United States and abroad who have made significant and sustained contributions to the field of medical informatics and who have met rigorous scholarly scrutiny by their peers.

Share link: https://news.ohsu.edu/2024/10/21/accolades-awards-honors-and-appointments-october#WilliamHersh

 

Group of OHSU medical, health professionals publishes new book

Kirk Lalwani, M.D., F.R.C.A., M.C.R., professor of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine in the OHSU School of Medicine, is chief editor of a new book, titled Professional, Ethical, Legal, and Educational Lessons in Medicine: A Problem-Based Learning Approach. Along with Lalwani, Berklee Robins, M.D., M.A., is the ethics section editor, and OHSU School of Medicine Professor Emeritus Jeffrey Kirsch, M.D., is a section editor. Justin Cetas, M.D., Ph.D., from the OHSU Department of Neurosurgery, was also an author (Ch. 35) before his untimely passing, and his memory is celebrated in the preface.

The book has authors from medical and allied health professions and the business and legal worlds, offering lessons in professionalism, ethics, medicolegal issues and education. Lalwani said the book was conceptualized to serve as a resource for all health care professions, with clinical patient care as a common denominator. The 73 chapters written by many OHSU-affiliated authors in a problem-based learning format are easier to digest with demonstrable benefits on the acquisition and application of new knowledge, and the assessment questions facilitate the evaluation of retained material by learners. All editorial royalties will be donated to the hunger alleviation organization Feeding America.

Share link: https://news.ohsu.edu/2024/10/21/accolades-awards-honors-and-appointments-october#newbook

 

OHSU teams earn Young Investigator Award by Musculoskeletal Tumor Society

The orthopaedic oncology team recently traveled to present research at the Musculoskeletal Tumor Society annual meeting in Chicago. Orthopaedic surgical oncologists and OHSU Knight Cancer Institute members Yee-Cheen Doung, M.D., associate professor of orthopaedics and rehabilitation in the OHSU School of Medicine, Kenneth Gundle, M.D., associate professor of orthopaedics and rehabilitation in the OHSU School of Medicine, and Duncan Ramsey, M.D., M.S., associate professor of orthopaedics and rehabilitation in the OHSU School of Medicine, were joined by chief resident Sarah Lindsay, M.D., as well as research manager Rebecca Smith, M.A., and physician assistants Sarah Jean Baptiste and AnJulia Jimenez.

In addition to poster and podium presentations, an update was given on the Surveillance AFter Extremity Tumor surgerY (SAFETY) trial, a multinational randomized clinical trial for which OHSU is the highest-enrolling site in the United States (NCT03944798).

Ramsey won first place in the Best Presentation by a Young Investigator Award for a paper titled, “Long-term outcomes of local control procedures in peri-articular bone sarcomas of the knee: A report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.”

Lindsay won third place in the Best Presentation by a Young Investigator Award for a paper titled, “Inaccuracy of current height prediction models for pediatric sarcoma patients plus a novel method.” Collaborators included faculty at OHU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, the Portland VA Medical Center, and the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute.

Share link: https://news.ohsu.edu/2024/10/21/accolades-awards-honors-and-appointments-october#younginvestigatoraward

 

OHSU projects win Innovation Showcase at Oregon Biotech Summit

Three OHSU-led projects were winners at the recent Innovation Showcase at the Oregon Biotech Summit hosted by the Oregon Bioscience Association. OHSU teams won the translational science, early-stage company, and later-stage company categories.

Matthew Rames, Ph.D., a research engineer at the Knight Cancer Institute’s Cancer Early Detection Advanced Research Center, or CEDAR, and the OHSU School of Medicine, was a winner in the translational research category for his work on the project titled “Rapid and Precise Antibody Bioengineering for Multiplexing in Spatial Omics Platforms.”

OHSU start-up Verendus Pharma and Matt Bryant, CRNA, instructor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, School of Medicine, won for early-stage company.

Verendus is a start-up based on research from the laboratory of Michael Cohen, Ph.D., professor of chemical physiology and biochemistry in the OHSU School of Medicine.

Peter Campbell, M.D., M.P.H., won for late-stage company Siloam Vision, which is working on reducing childhood blindness worldwide.

Campbell is an associate professor of ophthalmology in the OHSU School of Medicine and OHSU Casey Eye Institute.

Share link: https://news.ohsu.edu/2024/10/21/accolades-awards-honors-and-appointments-october#InnovationShowcase

 

Celebrating a Decade of Excellence and Innovation

The American Medical Informatics Association, a non-profit organization dedicated to the development and application of biomedical and health informatics in the support of patient care, teaching, research and health care administration, is proud to recognize the 10-year anniversary of OHSU’s Clinical Informatics Fellowships and Board-Certified Clinical Informaticists.

Congratulations to the first set of programs on this significant accomplishment. OHSU is proud of its role in making this happen and of the many benchmarks over the past 10 years, which includes the first four clinical informatics fellowships that were approved and launched in 2014 at OHSU.

Share link: https://news.ohsu.edu/2024/10/21/accolades-awards-honors-and-appointments-october#Excellence-Innovation

 

OHA, OHSU host insights-driven Medicaid spending programs convening

In partnership with the Oregon Health Authority Transformation Center, OHSU’s Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network, or ORPRN, on Oct. 9 hosted the annual Medicaid spending programs convening. More than 100 participants from coordinated care organizations, known as CCOs, OHA, and community partner organizations gathered in Salem to discuss innovative efforts in three Medicaid spending programs that work to bridge the gap between health care and social determinants of health.

The convening agenda oriented around the theme of centering Medicaid members and community voices, including a welcome from Oregon's new Medicaid Director Emma Sandoe, a keynote from health care abolitionist Ivelyse Andino on building trust within communities, a dynamic panel from CCOs’ community partners Doulas Latinas International and Asian Health and Service Center, and an afternoon of roundtable discussions highlighting CCOs’ efforts in topics including:

• Streamlining the experience of members receiving services and community partners providing services
• Innovative approaches to addressing member housing and food needs through HRS, SHARE, and ILOS
• Braiding Medicaid funding, including HRS, SHARE, ILOS, and other programs like health-related social needs (HRSN) covered services
• Advancing access to behavioral health and traditional health worker services

Since 2017, the ORPRN health policy team has contracted with the Transformation Center to support Oregon’s 16 CCOs in implementing these spending programs: health-related services, the Supporting Health for All through REinvestment, or SHARE, program, and in lieu of services. In this contract and across their portfolio of work, ORPRN acts as a liaison in Oregon, creating and connecting linkages within and across the state health authority, CCOs and community partners, pushing partners toward innovation and collective action to advance health equity.

Share link: https://news.ohsu.edu/2024/10/21/accolades-awards-honors-and-appointments-october#Medicaidprograms

 

Recognize team or individual achievements with OHSU Accolades

Every day, OHSU members do amazing things. We want to celebrate the significant achievements of OHSU members, units and programs, such as awards, grants, appointments, publications and public recognitions. We publish these announcements regularly on OHSU Now and OHSU News: Awards and Accomplishments to celebrate with all 27,000 of our members and our community. Nominate yourself, a colleague or any OHSU member using this Accolades intake form. Submissions will be edited for length and clarity.