In a KGW-TV story about state medical boards not stopping physicians accused of significant wrongdoing from practicing medicine, Juliana Hansen, M.D., provides outside expertise on the case of a Portland woman who died after cosmetic surgery provided by a private practitioner. Hansen says the patient’s death could “absolutely” have been prevented because their health issues meant they “would not be considered a good candidate for a cosmetic procedure done electively in an office that’s not accredited without an anesthesia provider monitoring.”

Allison Empey, M.D., will speak about indigenous health equity Nov. 15 as part of lecture series at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

The Sandy Seventh-day Adventist Church will host the OHSU mobile mammography van at the church on Nov. 9. Event organizer Tami Beaty says: “I am a breast cancer survivor so, for me, (this service) is very personal. My survivability rate and treatment was so much easier with stage one (cancer).”

Lisa Coussens, Ph.D., was among the speaker line-up selected for the inaugural Zena Werb Memorial Lecture in Cancer Biology at the University of California at San Francisco.

Rosalie Sears, Ph.D., contributed to pancreatic cancer research using exosome-isolating technology.

Kelly Vranas, M.D., and Abby Dotson, Ph.D., offer their insights during a panel podcast discussion about Portable Order for Life-Saving Treatment, or POLST.

While discussing California being the first state to ban four additives, Joel Nigg, Ph.D., describes food dyes as a “public health concern” that affects children with and without ADHD.

Alex Ortega-Loayza, M.D., and the Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network will implement a teledermatology program involving five Oregon clinics.

Becker’s Clinical Leadership summarizes a NEJM Catalyst case study that describes how OHSU created a new intake hospitalist role to oversee patient transfers in order to “accept ‘the right patient, at the right time, to the right place.’”

The Oregon Supreme Court has ruled that a defamation case of a patient suing OHSU for doctor’s notes about them in their medical record can go to trial.