Ben Hoffman, M.D., comments on the dangers associated with inclined sleepers: “The right image is a baby on a flat firm mattress on their back with nothing else. You show people pictures of safe sleep and they think that looks lonely. That’s part of the challenge, the public perception fueled by the images we see.”
Cam Walker, Ph.D., discusses OHSU body donor Rose Marie Bentley, who lived 99 years without knowing she had the rare condition situs inversus with levocardia.
The Seattle Times highlights OHSU Center for Ethics course, “Living With Life-Threatening Illness,” which pairs students with ill and dying patients, in an article on Dr. Ron Naito, who helps teach health professionals in training how to break bad news to patients.
A teen cancer survivor uses his Make-A-Wish “wish” to donate hundreds of stuffed animals, toys to OHSU Doernbecher. “I personally don't need anything. I already have a great family, and the fact I'm here right now is kind of all I need,” he says. “I hope for them [patients] to receive a teddy bear and have a heartwarming feeling of joy and happiness, even for the moment. It means a lot.”
In an interview with Jefferson Public Radio, Joyce Hollander-Rodriguez, M.D., discusses OHSU’s collaboration with University of California, Davis, to change medical residencies so they better meet the needs of rural and other underserved communities.
The Cancer Research Institute announces Amanda Lund, Ph.D., as one of five researchers across the country to be awarded the Lloyd J. Old STAR award to “carry out work that has potential to produce transformative leaps forward in tumor immunology research.”