Ana Wakefield, who was critically injured and treated at OHSU after a hit-and-run accident five years ago, reunites with the team of firefighters who helped save her life.

The Portland Business Journal reports on a $10.4 million lawsuit alleging that OHSU mishandled a sperm sample.

OHSU biostatistician Miguel Marino, Ph.D., is elected to the National Academy of Medicine for his novel statistical approaches to health equity research. Danny Jacobs, M.D., says: “Dr. Marino’s statistical innovations reveal how U.S. health care providers and institutions can better serve historically marginalized communities that continue to experience health inequities today. Advancing health equity is of critical importance. We are proud of Dr. Marino and his transformational work, and pleased that his efforts are being recognized by the National Academy of Medicine.”

Craig Yoshioka, Ph.D., is interviewed on a podcast about cryo-electron microscopy.

A story about the clitoris being poorly understood and not widely considered by most health care mentions clitoral nerve research by Blair Peters, M.D., that could improve sexual sensation for patients who undergo gender-affirming phalloplasty procedures. Peters says: “When I went through medical school, we did not learn anything in particular about the clitoris beyond the fact that it exists, basically. …. (I developed) this subconscious bias that it’s not going to be this super-apparent structure. But it is."

In a story about updated boosters available for children 5 and under, Eliza Hayes Bakken, M.D., says vaccination is an important tool to prevent COVID-19. She says, “While children are proportionately less affected, they’re not unaffected (by COVID). There are deaths and long-term complications in children that make us concerned.”

A story about long COVID affecting Oregon’s economy features an OHSU patient who was unemployed for about a year and continues to struggle financially after initially becoming sick in 2021. Eric Herman, M.D., says long COVID patients “can experience a crushing sense of fatigue, not so much right afterward, but 12 to 72 hours” after performing regular activities.

60 scuba divers outside of Florence raised more than $15,000 at the 15th annual “Dive for Cure” fundraising event benefiting the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute.

Scientists at OHSU have revealed, for the first time and in near-atomic detail, the structure of the key part of the inner ear responsible for hearing. Eric Gouaux, Ph.D., says, “This is the last sensory system in which that fundamental molecular machinery has remained unknown.” Peter Barr-Gillespie, Ph.D., adds, “The auditory neuroscience field has been waiting for these results for decades, and now that they are right here, we are ecstatic.”

New research co-led by Pepper Schedin, Ph.D., suggests that breast cancers that emerge within five years of giving birth are more likely to spread and become deadly: “This has profound implications for prognosis. A postpartum diagnosis can move women who appear to have good prognosis into a high-risk category.”