OHSU medical students graduate early, begin residencies and assist with combatting the COVID-19 pandemic. Alix Cooper, M.D., says: “we’re most needed when it’s most dangerous.”

Sports teams show support for frontline health care workers.

An opinion article, signed by Danny Jacobs, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.S. and more than a dozen health care leaders across the nation, calls to reduce racial inequities in health care during COVID-19 and beyond.

OHSU performs its first heart transplant since re-activating the program in 2019. Danny Jacobs, M.D., M.P.H. F.A.C.S. says: “We are excited to continue serving our state, region and nation with comprehensive, leading-edge cardiovascular expertise.”

In an article questioning the use of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19, Vinay Prasad, M.D., M.P.H., says: “Do you want to add a pill that you have no idea if it helps or hurts? We have learned through decades of medicine that the answer is often you have as much to lose as you have to gain, which is that the pill can worsen outcomes just as easily as it could help.”

Rachel Pilliod, M.D., discusses the best ways to reduce risks of infection in the weeks prior to child birth.

Oregon students show support for frontline health care workers.

A study led by members of the OHSU Center for Health Systems Effectiveness and department of Obstetrics and Gynecology finds that Oregon’s “Project Nurture” program is associated with lower rates of child maltreatment, foster care placement and increased prenatal visits.

A Portland artist preparing for bone marrow transplant treats her stay at OHSU as a “creative residency.” She says: “It allows me to, I think, really just mediate on the things that matter and work through a lot of what’s going on right now in as healthy a way as possible."

Nike delivers the first shipment of custom full-face shields and PAPR lenses to OHSU.