A Message from OHSU President, Joe Robertson, M.D., M.B.A.
Why is diversity so important at OHSU?
Because diversity fosters innovation and builds an intellectually vibrant environment where diverse teams promote creativity and new ways to fulfill OHSU’s mission of healing, teaching, discovery and community service. Because diversity is crucial to our business model and helps us recruit and retain top faculty and employees. It gives us a competitive edge. Increased diversity in the healthcare workforce will improve access to care and enhance the overall quality of health and well-being of all Oregonians.
At OHSU, we go beyond respecting and valuing diversity: we aspire to sustain a culture of diversity.
Charles Drum receives National Distinguished Disability Research Award
Each year, the Southwest Conference on Disability selects an individual to receive the National Distinguished Disability Research Award. The award recognizes an individual from the United States who has compiled a distinguished record of disability-related research in the social or physical sciences that has contributed to and advanced our overall knowledge of disability. The selection committee, which consists of past recipients and other disability researchers, named OHSU Associate Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine Charles Drum, JD, PhD, as the 2009 recipient.
OHSU’s R. Dale Walker, M.D., honored as 2009 Indian Physician of the Year
R. Dale Walker, M.D., director of the One Sky Center and Center for American Indian Health Education & Research at Oregon Health & Science University, has been named the 2009 Indian Physician of the Year. Walker is being honored by the Association of American Indian Physicians “for distinguished service and commitment to improving the quality of health care for Native Americans and Alaska Natives.” He received the award Wednesday at the organization’s 38th annual meeting and national health care conference in Alexandria, Va.
