The Department of Family Medicine is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Richard Deyo as Kaiser Permanente Professor of Evidence-based Family Medicine at OHSU. Dr. Deyo is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University School of Medicine and completed his Masters of Public Health degree at the University of Washington. His internship and residency in internal medicine were completed at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio and he was a VA/Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Washington.
Dr. Deyo's research has focused on measurement of patient functional status, involvement of patients in clinical decisions, and the management of common outpatient conditions, especially low back pain. He is currently Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Cost and Outcomes Research at the University of Washington and is a member of the National Advisory Committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Physician Faculty Scholars Program. Dr. Deyo has served as mentor and teacher to dozens of research fellows and received the John M. Eisenberg Award for Career Achievement in Research from the Society of General Internal Medicine in 2004.
As Kaiser Professor of Evidence-based Family Medicine, Dr. Deyo will work jointly with scientists and clinicians at OHSU and with the Kaiser Center for Health Research to pursue his interests in the cost effective use of medical technology and in the translation of research evidence into clinical practice. He will begin work at OHSU in October 2007.
