Student of the month

To nominate an outstanding student email caleye@ohsu.edu.

Prior winners

February 2008, Amber Moore, 4th Year MD/MPH Student  
Amber has emerged as a strong student leader on the climate change issue here at OHSU. After joining a number of other students around from around the country in Washington, DC at a conference on the health effects of global warming, Amber was stirred to approach the issue here at OHSU. She spurred the establishment of a group called the Medical Alliance on Climate Change, which involves students and faculty from multiple schools and departments on campus and is aligned with the Green Team, OHSU’s grassroots employee network to address climate change issues on campus. With these groups, Amber led the planning and management of OHSU’s Focus the Nation (FTN) events (FTN was a late January national campaign of over 1,500 academic institutions highlighting climate change awareness – OHSU was one of a number of institutions in Portland that participated). Those OHSU FTN events included lectures on the health effects of global warming, film screenings on climate change related topics, and a panel discussion on what OHSU is currently doing to address its own “green-ness”.  Hundreds of individuals (employees, faculty, and students) at OHSU attended the events. She is now focusing her efforts on working with the Green Team and continuing to mobilize student support on climate change issues including the reduction of OHSU’s carbon footprint.  Because of her efforts, eyes and ears around the OHSU campus will continue to open to issues of climate change.

January 2008, Lyzz Caley, 3rd Year SON PhD  
Lyzz has served as an Outstanding Leader in her role as President of the Graduate Nursing Senate; Graduate Student Body advocate; a Liason for Doctoral Students with Dr. Gail Houck, PhD Program Director; a Liason for Graduate Students in the School of Nursing with Dean of Academic Affairs Dr. Judith Baggs and Interim Dean Dr. Saundra Theis and Maureen Monacoda.  She has always been flexible in providing mentoring services for the incoming Graduate Nursing Senate elected officers and Representatives.  She always seeks opportunities for activities and for promoting leadership potential among Colleagues.  She takes the time to get to know each person she meets and she always finds new ways to improve her leadership skills.  She shares what she has learned including School resources and disseminates this to the Graduate Student Body.  She takes great pride in ensuring that we have a united voice and finds ways to have us put input into school polocies that are undergoing revision and modification.