OHSU provides the most comprehensive fetal surgery, complex pediatric care in the state

Groundbreaking research at OHSU contributes to understanding of fetal development, childhood health outcomes

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OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital Fetal Care Team

Infants who underwent a successful in-utero surgery are visited by their surgeons, Raphael Sun, M.D., and Andrew Chon, M.D., who have expanded OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital fetal care team to include treatments of babies still in the womb. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

OHSU Fetal Surgery Team

Surgeons Raphael Sun, M.D., center left, holds Felix, and Andrew Chon, M.D., center right, holds Isaac, next to mom, Adriana Romero Villarreal, far left, and Romero Villarreal's partner, Isaac Bagnall., right. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

OHSU researchers now can predict severity of a rare genetic disease in children

A team of researchers at OHSU has developed a framework to better evaluate the different types of UBA5 mutations, which cause a rare, deadly neurodegenerative disease in children. From left: Kofi Asare-Konadu, research assistant; Ruth Napier, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at OHSU School of Medicine; Jonathan Pruneda, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at OHSU School of Medicine; and Nick Alvarez, research assistant. (OHSU)

fetal surgery

Andrew Chon, M.D., pays a visit to the Hungate twins after delivery. With Dr. Chons special training, OHSU Doernbecher is able to perform complex, in-utero fetal surgeries that help families like the Hungates. (Courtesy of the Hungate family)

Neuroimaging for early child development discoveries

Senior research assistant Samuel Carpenter places MRI equipment onto Benjamin Newman as mom, Alice Graham, MS, Ph.D., and Elinor Sullivan, Ph.D., right, look on. Sullivan and Graham demonstrate how they use a neuroimaging to discover child development problems early. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

Edward Neuwelt, M.D. (OHSU)