Alexandra Levin, M.P.H., was among the 165 fourth-year OHSU M.D. students who matched with residency programs on March 17. Levin, who was matched with the joint OHSU-Sky Lakes Cascades East Family Medicine Residency Program in Klamath Falls, says: “I’m thrilled to be going to a program that fits me so well and will train me to be a true, full-spectrum rural family physician. I’m feeling elation, joy, and excitement”

OncLive interviews Chris Ryan, M.D., about data on the role of adjuvant pembrolizumab in treating renal cell carcinoma presented at the 2023 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium; Ryan says: “What we don’t know is if [giving] adjuvant treatment early on, as opposed to saving immunotherapy if a patient relapses with metastatic disease, will make a difference in overall survival [OS]. However, it is reasonable to consider adjuvant therapy and give benefit to the doubt that it may one day show improved OS, based on the compelling DFS benefit that we have seen.”

GenomeWeb reports on the Healthy Oregon Project team who presented at a recent American College of Medical Genetics meeting; Timothy O'Brien, Ph.D., said: "Overall, we have impacted more than 500 participants in Oregon by providing them with this health information to let them go on and take charge of their health and get recommendations and screening guidelines needed to manage their care.”

At the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing in London, Shoukhrat Mitalipov, Ph.D., presents findings from his lab that showed that germline genome editing had resulted in unintended — and potentially dangerous — tweaks to the genomes of embryos, which standard DNA-reading tests used to screen embryos before implantation might not pick up.

The 25th million rider of the Tram is a 3-year-old boy receiving treatment for a brain tumor, called DIPG, at OHSU/Doernbecher.

Anna Bar, M.D., is interviewed by Dermatology Times about her presentation on Mohs reconstructive surgery for skin cancer at the American Academy of Dermatology meeting.

An OHSU research team is partnering with Klamath County's South Suburban Branch Library to learn more about the health benefits of walking with peers.

A survey of clinicians by the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health that found Oregon’s substance use disorder treatment system is about half the size it should be is cited in an OPB article about how illegal substances are part of Oregon's addiction problem, but alcohol is the biggest killer.

A KGW-TV story on Eneida Nemecek, M.D., receiving a grant to build equity in clinical trials is rebroadcast on KOBI-TV (Medford).

In an article on how schizophrenia is a key factor in heat deaths, George Keepers, M.D., says: “There’s a whole host of things that people with this very unfortunate illness are vulnerable to.”