Celia’s House, the only nonprofit hospice providing end-of-life residential care for individuals in the Rogue Valley, received a grant from the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute to conduct interviews in Spanish with Latinx patients with cancer to identify ways to better engage this community with discussions around palliative and end-of-life care.

In a video interview with UroToday, Alexandra Sokolova, M.D., discusses her work on biochemical recurrent prostate cancer.

Oregon’s 10 largest hospitals, and OHSU tops the list with 576 licensed beds.

Jessica R. Castle, M.D., is appointed associate editor on the editorial team of Diabetes Care.

While describing his interim report that evaluates how well coordinated care organizations, or CCOs, provide care for Oregon’s Medicaid patients, John McConnell, Ph.D., says: “Oregon is a leader in figuring out how to use managed care entities to address social determinants of health through its Health Related Services program. The program has grown but there are still some kinks to work out."

OHSU scientists have received $4 million in philanthropic support to advance a first-of-its-kind method to turn an individual’s skin cell into an egg, with the potential to produce viable embryos. Shoukhrat Mitalipov, Ph.D., says, “It will take probably a decade before we can say we’re ready. The science behind it is complex, but we think we’re on the right path."

Bancy Gatimu, RN, who retired Aug. 3 after 43 years at OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital. She says, “When you love your job, it is not a job. I take care of children whose parents I once took care of. They see me and call me grandma from the hospital.”

The National Multiple Sclerosis Society announces award recipients, including OHSU researchers to investigate signals that cause nerve cells to die when myelin is lost in MS – and how to block those signals.

Washington State University Elson F. Floyd College of Medicine, which has been a partner in the OHSU Northwest Native American Center of Excellence’s Wy’east Post-Baccalaureate Pathway since 2020, will host its own pre-medical pathway for American Indian and Alaska Native students beginning in 2024. This is possible thanks to a $3.4 million grant OHSU received from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.