Outreach partnership with OMSI gathers crowds and data
Posted Apr 05, 2009
The Office of the Dean facilitated a month-long educational outreach initiative in partnership with the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in March.The outreach was conducted to complement the very successful OHSU Brain & Body Fair that was staged at OMSI in March by the OHSU Brain Institute.
OHSU clinicians, researchers and students weighed, measured, tested and educated hundreds of people in March, and demonstrated the importance of healthy eating on the brain, the impact of substance abuse on cognitive growth and development, and other topics. Some visitors allowed their participation in the activities to be collected as control group data for ongoing clinical trials.
“These are great opportunities for us to let members of the community know what is being done with NIH research dollars, and allow them to participate in and better understand the research process,” said William Cameron, PhD, Associate Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience. “Through this collaboration with OMSI, we were also able to collect some control data for our methamphetamine abuse study that would be much harder to obtain under regular circumstances.”
Photo: Jonathan Purnell, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Endocrinology/Diabetes/Clinical Nutrition, explains study results to an exhibit visitor.
