ANNOUNCEMENTS

James Calvert, MD, was named Oregon Medical Association Doctor Citizen of the Year. Dr. Calvert, former residnecy director of Cascades East Family Medicine Residenty Program, was honored for his local and global contributions. He has assisted groups travelling to Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya and Vietnam to distribute artifical hands for amputees. He led trips to Kyrgyzstand, where he has coordinated fund raising to build a public health infrastructure. Dr. Calvert has worked toward the success of Klamath Reads, a program that supplies books to first graders in Klamath County, and helped Klamath First Harvest grow food for the poor. He helped to establish the Federally Qualified Health Care Center of Klamath Open Door Clinic and served as an examiner for Klamath/Lake County Child Abuse Response and Evaluation Services. Dr. Calvert is a valuable member of the ORPRN Steering Committee and has participated in several ORPRN studies.

Robert Holland, MD, was named Oregon Family Doctor of the Year at the Oregon Academy of Family Physicians (OAFP) Annual Scientific Assembly and Congress on May 8-10, 2008. Dr. Holland, of John Day, was selected based on his two decades of service to his patients, his community, and OHSU medical students and residents.

ORPRN Receives Master Contract from AHRQ
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About AHRQ PRBN Contract Partnerships
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David Buckley, MD receives American Cancer Society Mentored Research Scholar Grant in Applied and Clinical Research
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Dr. Buckley is receiving his Master of Public Health degree in June from the Epidemiology and Biostatistics track of the OHSU MPH program. His thesis, "Chronic Opiod Therapy and the Receipt of Preventive Services in Primary Care" was based on an ORPRN study funded by the AAFP Foundation.