OHSU has licensed its collaborative education platform and learning community for anesthesiology residency programs, called the Anesthesia Toolbox. Glenn Woodworth. M.D, says the license ensures “the product lives on and thrives."

Allie Dyer advocates for socio-structural changes to medicine in order to better serve Black and Native American communities, saying she believes the medical community needs to “radically reformulate the theoretical paradigms within allopathic medicine to reflect the reality of our patients and the communities they are part of."

The Kuni Foundation awards OHSU more than $3.3 million to advance personalized cancer therapy, develop new breast cancer strategies and develop new melanoma therapies.

Leslie Bienen, M.F.A., D.V.M., argues “with many college campuses approaching 98% vaccination rates among students, faculty, and staff, universities should jettison the strategies they relied on in 2020 and 2021,” such as remote learning and mask requirements.

OHSU was involved in a Phase 1 clinical trial investigating transforming growth factor beta’s effect on osteogenesis imperfecta, a common skeletal dysplasia that causes bone fragility for which there is no FDA-approved treatment.

Hospitals are using technology to improve care delivery. Matthias Merkel, M.D., Ph.D., describes how OHSU’s use of deep-learning technology used in its Mission Control command center has improved operations: “Before, we were figuring out how many patients we had and how many we anticipated moving forward by writing on pieces of paper and whiteboard.”

Mask mandates are loosening across the country, but dropping the requirement for masks in schools is controversial; Judy Guzman-Cottrill, D.O., tells NPR: "We know that kids are very good at sharing infectious diseases in the school setting. So we need to see higher immunization rates in kids before we start removing masks."

"Talk to any hospital worker and they’ll say, ‘You mean we’re going to stay above a thousand for another month because you’re not willing to hang tight for six more weeks? That is terrible timing’,” said OHSU's Peter Graven, Ph.D.

An OHSU study that found a combination of breakthrough infection and vaccine can result in a hybrid “super immunity,” regardless of whether the infection comes before or after vaccination.

Family and friends remember OHSU Patient Access Specialist Jeff Ramirez, who was shot and killed while running errands Feb. 2 in Southeast Portland