A new, 100,000-square-foot jointly developed by Sky Lakes Medical Center and OHSU is being used to advance rural healthcare in Klamath Falls.

A Cancer Research UK article looks back at the one-year anniversary of the founding of the International Alliance for Cancer Early Detection (ACED) alliance, of which the Knight Cancer Institute is a member, and outlines four recently awarded research projects designed to build a “scientifically diverse and collaborate research community in the U.K. and the U.S.”

David Huang, M.D., Ph.D., received an inaugural Greenberg Prize for co-inventing the eye imaging technology optical coherence topography.

OHSU nurses describe their experiences caring for critically ill COVID patients. Julie Kleese, R.N., tells KOIN-TV she and her colleagues provide patients more comfort because their families can’t visit: “I really take the opportunity when I can interact with people, to provide them with a therapeutic touch, to connect with them on a human level. So they feel my presence, whether they’re conscious or not. It’s an honor to be able to be there for people in those ways.”

Judy Guzman-Cottrill, D.O, explains why it’s not safe to gather indoors with people outside your household right now: “Indoor spaces have comparatively worse air ventilation than outdoors. …. When you add eating and drinking, guests must remove their masks — and viral risk dramatically rises.”

Local community groups and business help to spread holiday cheer at OHSU Doernbecher.

Ryan Petteway, M.P.H., Dr.PH. discusses his use of poetry to expand and humanize public health practices.

Oregon education and healthcare experts participate in a panel discussion, hosted by the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health, about the risks and benefits of reopening schools. Alex Foster, M.D., M.P.H. says: “ stress from the pandemic is going to remain with students for a long time to come:”

OHSU nurses describe their experiences caring for critically ill COVID patients. Erin Boni, R.N. tells Willamette Week. “The patients are really sick. Not just their lungs are being impacted, but they're going into kidney failure. They're having issues with blood clots. And then, at the same time, they're having issues with bleeding. So we'll be treating the blood clots with a blood thinner and then they'll start bleeding from somewhere else.”

To date, the OHSU School of Dentistry has trained approximately 100 community dentists to give their patients vaccines.