“OHSU understands and fully embraces the responsibility to provide compassionate, quality care that comes with the privilege of working with animal models. We believe that the education and experience surgical trainees gain through the use of relevant animal models are essential to ensuring future surgeons have the knowledge and skills necessary to provide safe, high-quality care. Our views on this topic reflect those of other surgical training programs around the world. OHSU only uses animal models in its surgical training program when nonanimal methods are inadequate or too dangerous for human participants. We look forward to a time when surgical training methods are capable of faithfully modeling the complexity of a living system; however, technology currently does not exist to recreate some of the most complex procedures surgeons must regularly perform in humans, such as managing critical internal complications. OHSU continually monitors and evaluates alternatives to using animal models in our surgical training and is committed to adopting these techniques as soon as their effectiveness is demonstrated.”

OHSU’s vice president of public affairs, Abby Tibbs, will lead work on incoming governor Tina Kotek's proposal for the 2023-2025 state budget.

Modeling from Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) predicts that RSV cases likely already peaked in mid-November, at around 142 hospital admissions per week, over half of which were pediatric cases. Modeling predicts that cases will remain high through early December before declining more significantly in January and February.

Local news outlets continue to report on the unprecedented demand for emergency care following Thanksgiving.

In an op-ed published by The Oregonian, Dana Braner, M.D., and Ben Hoffman, M.D., urge Oregon parents and families to do their part to avoid overwhelming Oregon’s already strained health care system.

A feature about Tiara Herr, B.S., participating in the local acting scene and serving as a voice coach, despite having cancer-related hearing loss, describes her work as a research assistant in the OHSU Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute.

The Scientist ranks the Proteograph™ Product Suite Seer, a collaboration between Seer and the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute's Mark Flory, Ph.D., No. 4 among its annual "Top 10 Innovations ... that directly addressed the (hopefully) once-in-a-generation disease outbreak, but also highlighted technological advances that pressed forward even in the face of that massive global disruption."

A story about near-sightedness becoming more common mentions an OHSU Casey Eye Institute report that states about 42% of the U.S. population had the condition in the early 2000s, up from 25% in the early 1970s.

Avi Gupta, former Jeopardy! Teen Tournament champion who raised awareness and money for pancreatic cancer research at the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, will participate in the program’s High School Reunion Tournament in February 2023.

In an Undark article comparing colonoscopy and stool testing for colorectal cancer screening, David Lieberman, M.D., says those who received a colonoscopy had a 50% lower risk of colorectal cancer death, and the procedure “can be extremely effective.”