Shereef Elnahal, M.D., M.B.A., has been named OHSU’s president-select.

Lucid News reports mixed reviews from providers since Oregon voters approved psilocybin services in 2020, citing research from the Open Psychedelic Evaluation Nexus involving researchers from OHSU. OPEN co-director Adie Ray, M.D., M.P.H., says, “Affluent clients were our prediction in 2020. We knew this was going to be expensive, so it’s going to be inequitable. I wish we weren’t right about that.”

Helius Medical Technologies, Inc., reports positive results from a clinical trial conducted at OHSU and five other centers across the country.

OCT News reports George Burwood, Ph.D., has received a National Institutes of Health award to measure apical cochlear mechanics in hearing after cochlear implantation.

In a Medscape story about physician-researcher Min Chiu Li, M.D., Alan Hunter, M.D., says Li and a colleague “set the stage for a modern approach to chemotherapy, set the stage for hope.”

OPB’s “All Things Considered” interviews Robert Macauley, M.D., about his new book, “Because I Knew You: How Some Remarkable Sick Kids Healed A Doctor’s Soul.” In response to the question, ‘Why God – if there is one – allows kids to suffer and die,’ Macauley says: “ … I don’t know. I don’t know why God lets such terrible things happen, which even someone as tragically flawed as me would make absolutely sure to prevent, given a pinch of omnipotence and a nanosecond to act.”

Nicole Bowles, Ph.D., discusses how to treat sleep disturbances among firefighting professionals, during the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.

In a HealthCentral story about a potentially deadly heart condition that experts have long believed predominantly affects men, Ahmad Masri, M.D., says, “We don’t know the true incidence in women, and we need to study that. I do think that it’s still largely underdiagnosed and under-evaluated in women.”

The Salem Reporter describes how Brandon Tieu, M.D., who completed an internship, residency and fellowship in thoracic surgery at OHSU, established a chest and lung surgery program at Salem Hospital that now employs a new lung biopsy robot.

Natalia Quintana Parilla and Joselinne Medrano discuss with OPB the elimination of NIH grants for training programs that help early-stage scientists, like themselves, from underrepresented communities get ahead in their careers.