Amanda Bruegl, M.D., is the 2023 recipient of the prestigious Outstanding American Indian/Alaska Native Women’s Health Care Clinician Award, also known as the William H.J. Haffner AI/AN Women’s Health Award.

OHSU School of Nursing alum Erin Collins, M.N.E., RN, has launched the Peaceful Presence Project, which views compassionate end-of-life care as a basic human right, and is creating a social death care movement through education for clinicians, volunteer-based programs and an innovative concept called end-of-life doulas.

A MIM Software press release announces its software is in the majority of health care facilities designated as Radiopharmaceutical Therapy Comprehensive Centers of Excellence by the SNMMI, including OHSU. Erik Mittra, M.D., Ph.D., says, "Dosimetry for radiopharmaceutical therapies is an increasingly important tool that will allow us to be more proactive with complex patient treatment decisions. We are excited to start providing this service to patients."

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden hosts a press conference on abortion access with several speakers, including Maria Rodriguez, M.D., and Alison Edelman, M.D. Rodriguez says, “We know that taken together, it is the most effective way to help with miscarriage management as well as abortion. We do not need judges, lawyers and politicians practicing medicine without a license in Texas or anywhere else in our country.” Edelman says, “If the judge says that mifepristone is illegal, we are going to provide care no matter what. For individuals in Oregon, I think it is just a catastrophe to think that someone in another state would think we cannot make choices for ourselves and not make choices with our health care providers.”

In a Portland Business Journal article, OHSU is mentioned as a stakeholder in House Bill 2697, which would make Oregon the first state to codify nurse-to-patient ratios for hospital settings, alleviating staffing shortages.

In an OncLive interview, Sasha Sokolova, M.D., discusses the evaluation of rucaparib vs. physician’s choice standard of care therapy in patients with BRCA-positive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

A “unique presentation on digital dermatopathology slides and the usefulness of a digital platform for research and patient education” by Sancy Leachman, M.D., Ph.D., was noted in a Doximity op-ed on the “hot topics” from the annual American Academy of Dermatology meeting.

A science roundup from OPB mentions OHSU’s recent research to identify a medication to treat alcoholism, which could help prevent the nearly 150,000 alcohol-related deaths in the U.S. each year.

32 Native American students at Mazama High School have joined On Track OHSU!, a college and career readiness program that supports underrepresented student populations in pursuit of medical careers.

An OHSU research team confirms discontinuing use of THC can at least partly reverse its negative effects, helping clinicians better counsel patients who are thinking about family planning.