Calendar Alert: Will We Ever Cure Alcohol and Substance Abuse?
05/01/08 Portland, Ore.
The Meeting of the Minds will take place on May 12.
WHAT: OHSU Brain Institute: A Meeting of the Minds
WHEN: Monday, May 12, 4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Oregon Health & Science University - OHSU Auditorium (Old Library building) Marquam Hill Campus, 3181 Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland
DETAILS: The public is invited to hear a clinical investigator and a laboratory scientist discuss the question, "Will we ever cure alcohol and substance abuse?" The forum features Robert J. Hitzemann, Ph.D., professor and chairman, behavioral neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine; and Eric Nestler, M.D., Ph.D., Lou and Ellen McGinley Distinguished Chair in Psychiatric Research, professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.
About OHSU
Oregon Health & Science University is the state's only health and research university, and Oregon's only academic health center. OHSU is Portland's largest employer and the fourth largest in Oregon (excluding government), with 12,400 employees. OHSU's size contributes to its ability to provide many services and community support activities not found anywhere else in the state. It serves patients from every corner of the state, and is a conduit for learning for more than 3,400 students and trainees. OHSU is the source of more than 200 community outreach programs that bring health and education services to every county in the state.
WHEN: Monday, May 12, 4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Oregon Health & Science University - OHSU Auditorium (Old Library building) Marquam Hill Campus, 3181 Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland
DETAILS: The public is invited to hear a clinical investigator and a laboratory scientist discuss the question, "Will we ever cure alcohol and substance abuse?" The forum features Robert J. Hitzemann, Ph.D., professor and chairman, behavioral neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine; and Eric Nestler, M.D., Ph.D., Lou and Ellen McGinley Distinguished Chair in Psychiatric Research, professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.
About OHSU
Oregon Health & Science University is the state's only health and research university, and Oregon's only academic health center. OHSU is Portland's largest employer and the fourth largest in Oregon (excluding government), with 12,400 employees. OHSU's size contributes to its ability to provide many services and community support activities not found anywhere else in the state. It serves patients from every corner of the state, and is a conduit for learning for more than 3,400 students and trainees. OHSU is the source of more than 200 community outreach programs that bring health and education services to every county in the state.
As a leader in research, OHSU earned $307 million in research funding in fiscal year 2007. OHSU serves as a catalyst for the region's bioscience industry and is an incubator of discovery, averaging one new breakthrough or innovation every three days, with more than 4,100 research projects currently under way. OHSU disclosed 132 inventions in 2007 alone, and OHSU research resulted in 33 new spinoff companies since 2000, most of which are based in Oregon.