The Multicancer Early Detection (MCED) Consortium, of which the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute is a member, announces the appointment of Michelle Le Beau, Ph.D., as chair and Larry Kessler, Sc.D., as deputy chair.

Atheir Abbas, M.D., Ph.D., who chairs a research subcommittee of the Oregon Psilocybin Advisory Board, on whether Oregon voters intended to allow small doses of therapeutic psilocybin to be taken on a regular basis over an extended period of time.

Rising numbers of children hospitalized with COVID-19 during the current surge in infections driven by the omicron virus variant. Carl Eriksson, M.D., says, “If you are the parents of a child who ends up hospitalized or on a ventilator, it’s not comforting to hear, ‘This is a milder strain.’”

The state’s largest nurses union is calling for health care facilities to require all frontline staff to wear N95 masks.

Story cites OHSU research into chat box usage among clinicians using tele-mentoring through an 11-session COVID-19 Extension for Community Outcomes (ECHO) program.

Leslie Bienen, D.V.M., and two co-authors write: “Although no district is likely to roll back COVID policies in the middle of the Omicron surge, at the top of the list of policies we should rethink once the wave recedes is mandatory masks for kids at school.”

The history of public health doesn’t only show up in the collective memories of impacted communities, said Liana Haywood, Communications Manager for OHSU’s Moore Institute for Nutrition and Wellness.

Ahead of the January 2022 OHSU board of directors meeting, a story in The Lund Report previews institutional plans to implement Covington investigation recommendations.

OHSU research finds that clinician-focused, COVID-19 support programs with a chat box feature offer primary care medical staff clinical resources, care guidance and psychosocial supports.