The pediatric team at Mid-Columbia Medical Center Mid-Columbia Medical Center is participating in the Rural Adolescent Vaccine Enterprise project in collaboration with the OHSU Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network (ORPRN) and the Oregon Immunization Program.

OHSU’s Avel Gordly Center is mentioned in an OPB story on the number of Black Oregonians struggling to find mental health care.

David Lieberman, M.D., is a member of the task force that issued new recommendations for endoscopists on how to assess colorectal lesions for features associated with cancer.

Monica Sikka, M.D., says those who become severely ill, especially those with underlying conditions, may be contagious for longer. “From the studies that we have to date, we really don’t see viable or live virus come from people who have tested positive for about 10 days.”

In a story featuring medical workers reflecting on the pandemic to date, Matthias Merkel, M.D., Ph.D., says: “Nothing in our hospital looks like it did before. We developed workflows to make it much more streamlined than at the beginning of March, when we didn't really know what we were facing.”

OHSU is using a real-time data sharing technology developed by GE Healthcare to help 60 Oregon hospitals manage beds and ventilators during the pandemic is highlighted.

A study led by Kevin L. Winthrop, M.D., M.P.H., and presented at the American College of Rheumatology Convergence 2020 found adverse influenza events among rheumatoid arthritis treated with tofacitinib don’t differ significantly from other arthritis patients.

In a video interview with Willamette Week discussing ways to safely reopen offices and indoor dining at restaurants, Andy Barnett, M.D., says: "Getting COVID transmitted from one person to another is like falling through a hole in the Swiss cheese. We try to stack as many pieces of cheese as possible with holes in different places."

OHSU’s Center for Evidence-Based Policy helped Louisiana Medicaid create a new process to manage requests for technology benefit coverage reviews that increased transparency.

Research by Pepper Schedin, Ph.D., and Erica Goddard found women diagnosed with breast cancer in the first five years after giving birth are 3.6 times more likely to develop liver metastasis than those who have never delivered.