| 1867 | Members of the medical department at Willamette University in Salem begin the first formal medical education program in Oregon. |
| 1877 | Willamette University's medical education program relocates to Portland. |
| 1887 | University of Oregon establishes a medical school in northwest Portland. The school is the only medical school in the Pacific Northwest. |
| 1913 | Willamette University and the University of Oregon merge their medical education programs to form the University of Oregon Medical School in Portland. |
| 1917 | The present 116-acre Marquam Hill campus gets its start with a 20-acre tract donated by the Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Company, and an 88-acre tract donated by the C.S. Jackson family, former publisher of the daily Oregon Journal. |
| | The state-wide Crippled Children's Division Program (now called the Child Development and Rehabilitation Center) is established in the School of Medicine to provide diagnostic, treatment and rehabilitation services for handicapped children. |
| 1919 | The University of Oregon Medical School moves from downtown Portland to its present location on Marquam Hill in southwest Portland. The first building is named after Dean Mackenzie. |
| 1920 | The University of Oregon Medical School offers Master's degrees in Anatomy, Bacteriology and Hygiene, Experimental Biology, Pathology, Pharmacology, and Physiology, at first through the University of Oregon. |
| 1922 | The first M.A. (not M.S.) degree is awarded. |
| 1923 | Multnomah County Hospital opens on the Marquam Hill campus and contracts with the medical school to provide services to indigent patients. |
| 1926 | Doernbecher Memorial Hospital for Children is built on the Marquam Hill campus and becomes the first full-service children's hospital in the Pacific Northwest. |
| 1928 | The University of Oregon Medical School takes over operation of Doernbecher. |
| 1931 | The outpatient clinic building is constructed on Marquam Hill and outpatient services begin, providing practical experience for medical and nursing students and residents. |
| | The School of Medicine Alumni Association was established in the home of Ivan M. Woolley, MD ’19. Attendance consisted of the officers: President Woolley ’19; Vice-Presidents Claude A. Lewis, MD ’16 and John C. Brougher, MD ’28; and, Secretary W.H. Belknap, MD ’22. |
| 1932 | The curricula from the Portland School of Social Work and the University of Oregon's nursing program are transferred to the University of Oregon Medical School to form the Department of Nursing Education in the University of Oregon Medical School in Portland. |
| 1934 | The first Ph.D. degree is awarded (in Physiology). |
| 1942 | The Medical Research Foundation of Oregon is founded and officed in Baird Hall to stimulate the development of research through seed grants to biomedical scientists anywhere in Oregon and served as the fiscal agent for NIH grants to Medical School investigators for many years. |
| 1954 | The Child Development and Rehabilitation Center facility is built on Marquam Hill. |
| 1956 | The Medical School Hospital is built on Marquam Hill. |
| 1960 | The Department of Nursing Education becomes the University of Oregon School of Nursing in Portland within the Oregon State System of Higher Education. |
| 1962 | On land in Beaverton purchased by the Medical Research Foundation of Oregon, the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center, one of the nation's first seven, is established on what is today the West Campus. |
| 1972 | The long-standing and popular rotating internship was phased out to comply with national policies for graduate medical education. |
| 1973 | University Hospital is created through the merger of the former Multnomah County Hospital, Medical School Hospital and the outpatient clinics. |
| 1974 | University of Oregon Health Sciences Center is formed as an independent institution under the direction of the Oregon State System of Higher Education. The Schools of Dentistry, Medicine and Nursing are brought together under a president to create this new center. The center becomes Oregon's only academic health center and one of 129 in the nation. |
| 1974-75 | The Medical Research Foundation creates annual Discovery Awards to recognize Oregon scientists who make outstanding contributions to new knowledge and annual Mentor Awards to those providing leadership and support in health-related research. The majority have gone to faculty members. |
| 1976 | A self-funded Division of Continuing Medical Education is formed in the Dean's office. |
| 1977 | The University of Oregon Health Sciences Foundation emerges as a repository for philanthropic gifts and grants to OHSU schools, later to be directed by a largely lay board. |
| 1979 | A geriatrics fellowship is established at the VAMC, one of the nation's earliest. |
| 1982 | The MD/PhD program is started with Medical Research Foundation funding. |
| 1989 | The OHSU Center for Ethics in Health Care is created to promote interdisciplinary study of ethical issues in health care. |
| | The Biomedical Information Communication Center director is named and building is started. |
| 1990 | Dotter Interventional Institute is established to honor the school's pioneer in interventional radiology. The institute leads the Pacific Northwest in developing image-guided procedures and performs more than 3,000 interventional treatments annually. |
| 1991 | The Area Health Education Centers program is established to promote better access to adequate health care throughout Oregon and to facilitate medical student primary care clerkships. |
| | Casey Eye Institute opens on Marquam Hill to provide a central clinical, research and educational setting for eye care. |
| | Construction is completed for the Biomedical Information Communication Center, which provides library, audiovisual and teleconferencing services, public computer services, and health informatics. |
| 1992 | The Basic Sciences Building addition opens to improve laboratories for basic research. |
| | The enclosed bridge between the Veteran's Affairs Medical Center and the University Hospital is opened. The 660-foot-long sky bridge allows direct transportation of patients, physicians and students, thus bonding functionally as well as symbolically the two major teaching hospitals. |
| | Responsibility for graduate medical education transfers from the University Hospital to the Dean's office, thus providing continuity and integration of responsibility for medical education throughout professional careers. |
| | An innovative new curriculum features immediate exposure of first-year medical students to office practices, integrated courses in the first two years, fewer lectures, a primary care clerkship at sites throughout Oregon, and the principles of student-directed and problem-solving learning. |
| 1993 | The Oregon Health Policy Institute, an interdisciplinary center of the medical school, Portland State University and Oregon State University is created as a resource center for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating health policy information. |
| | Physicians Pavilion opens on Marquam Hill to provide clinic services for faculty practices. |
| | Standardized and periodic internal and external reviews of Departments are instituted by the Dean. |
| 1995 | OHSU becomes a public corporation and separates from the Oregon State System of Higher Education. Governance of OHSU changes from the Board of Higher Education to the OHSU Board of Directors, whose members are nominated by the governor and approved by the Oregon Senate. |
| | The departments of Physiology and Pharmacology are merged to enhance the teaching of systems biology. |
| | A program conferring baccalaureate degrees for physicians' assistants is started. |
| | The Primate Center, originally owned and operated by the Medical Research Foundation of Oregon, is transferred to OHSU after the 1994 MRF merger with the Oregon Health Sciences Foundation. The MRF research seed grant program had grown to over one million dollars, the majority going to faculty of the Medical School. |
| 1996 | The first of OHSU's primary care neighborhood clinics opens in southwest Portland. Today, there are several OHSU community clinics located throughout the Portland metropolitan area, helping to improve health care access in neighborhood settings and to provide training sites for primary care residents. |
| 1997 | Planning begins for the Center for Women's Health, intended to offer a place where women's concerns can be addressed in a comprehensive, comforting and supportive manner. The center uses a collaborative model that encourages women to actively participate in their care. |
| | Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation Medicine becomes a free-standing department rather than a Division of Surgery. |
| | The free-standing Division of Medical Informatics and Outcomes Research is established and offers degrees by online learning. |
| | The first M.P.H. degree is awarded. By 2002, 65 have been issued, including 7 issued to MD/MPH students. |
| 1998 | The Mark O. Hatfield Research Center is dedicated. The center houses a variety of basic and clinical research programs that have the potential to spark new therapies through clinical trials. It includes such programs as the Clinical Research Center, the Oregon Hearing Research Center, Doernbecher Children's Hospital Pediatric Research Laboratories, the Bone and Mineral Unit's osteoporosis studies, the Oregon Stroke Center, and the Oregon Cancer Center (now called the OHSU Cancer Institute). |
| | Doernbecher Children's Hospital's new state-of-the-art pediatric medical complex is opened. Attached to the University Hospital, Doernbecher provides the widest range of health services to children in the state and contemporary training facilities for students, residents, and fellows. |
| | The Oregon Cancer Center is established with a grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health. The interdisciplinary center is one of 50 such comprehensive cancer centers nationwide. |
| | Added to the Dean's office are enhanced services to an energized Alumni Association, including graduates of the PhD and residency programs, and a professional development activity. |
| | An independent department of Neurological Surgery separates from the Department of Surgery. |
| 2000 | 439 Master's degrees (mostly M.S.) issued since 1920. 433 Ph.D. degrees issued since 1934 (with a major spurt since 1966). |
| | After conferring 88 baccalaureate degrees, the Physician Assistant Program is converted to a master's degree program. The program places unprecedented emphasis on medically underserved communities. As of 2008, 23 people have been awarded the Master of Physician Assistant Studies (MPAS) degree. |
| 2001 | OHSU's name changes to Oregon Health & Science University with the addition of a biotechnology school. |
| | The six year-old program providing training of physician assistants moves from the Provost's to the Dean's office. |
| 2002 | The clinical faculty unite in a practice group with emphasis on patient-centered care. |
| | The department of surgery launches a one-of-its-kind rural residency program. |
| 2006 | Work finishes on the new Biomedical Research Building. This building houses state of the art laboratory space for OHSU researchers. |
| | OHSU names former School of Medicine Dean Joseph Robertson, M.D., M.B.A., as president of the university. Mark Richardson, M.D., M.Sc.B., M.B.A., is appointed as dean of the School of Medicine. |
| | OHSU completes two new patient care buildings, the Peter O. Kohler Pavilion on Marquam Hill, and the Center for Health & Healing – the first building on OHSU’s new South Waterfront campus, and the nation’s first LEED platinum certified medical building. These two buildings are linked by the Portland Aerial Tram. |
| | OHSU School of Medicine, in partnership with Kaiser Permanente, is one of 11 recipients of an NIH grant for translational research. The $55 million grant was the largest gift in the initial group of recipients. |
| 2007 | The School of Medicine embarks on a new strategic plan, emphasizing diversity and academic innovation. The plan is designed to complement the broader initiatives outlined in the University’s Vision 2020 strategic plan. |
