On Track! OHSU co-sponsors a Nov. 17 educational day in honor of Native American Heritage Month at Chiloquin Junior/Senior High School.

OHSU is among several organizations to award Central Oregon Coast Fire & Rescue District grants.

More than 150 physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants across the Legacy Health system receive union recognition. They cited in part the proposed integration of Legacy by OHSU as motivation for their unionization effort.

While OHSU hasn’t made significant operational adjustments because of the Portland teachers strike so far, Sara Hottman says, “We know many individual OHSU members are now balancing both work and increased family needs.”

A story about Texas having one of the highest rates of uninsured kids in the nation notes a 2016 OHSU study found children who are eligible for public insurance and have uninsured parents were 14 times more likely to be uninsured.

Research by Bradley Petek, M.D., found that while sudden cardiac deaths in college athletes have decreased overall during the past 20 years, they have remained high in Division 1 men’s basketball players as well as men and Blacks participating in other college sports.

The OHSU and UC Davis medical schools partner through the California Oregon Medical Partnership to Address Disparities in Rural Education and Health, or COMPADRE, to send medical students and residents to clinics and hospitals in rural and other underserved communities in Oregon and Northern California, including the joint OHSU-Sky Lakes Medical Center Cascades East Family Medicine Center in Klamath Falls.

In a roundup of medical education efforts to diversity otolaryngology, Myriam Loyo Li, M.D., says OHSU’s Otolaryngology Diversity and Anti-Racism Committee helped the otolaryngology department review residency applicants holistically and advance applications for the interview committee’s consideration based on diversity and adversity experiences.

An OHSU study finds poor sleep efficiency among infants and young children with acquired brain injury is associated with worse child and family health outcomes.

Ahmad Masri, M.D., discusses results from a study evaluating the drug acoramidis in patients with transthyretin amyloidosis cardiomyopathy in a video interview.