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Al Lewy, M.D., Ph.D.

About 100,000 blind people in the United States suffer from sleep disorders caused by their brains’ inability to distinguish between darkness and light. In the early 1980s, Al Lewy, M.D., Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, established that exposure to bright light can reset out-of-phase body clocks in the sighted.
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Anh Nguyen-Huynh, M.D., Ph.D.

Affecting roughly half a million Americans, Meniere’s Disease is a disorder of the inner ear, causing episodic attacks of vertigo, nausea and vomiting, tinnitus and fluctuating hearing loss. Meniere’s disease tends to afflict people over 40 years old.
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Charles Springer, Ph.D.

Charles Springer, Ph.D., and multi-disciplinary collaborators are developing a new breast cancer screening method that can reduce or eliminate unnecessary biopsy surgeries.
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Cheryl Maslen, Ph.D.

Genetics has fascinated Cheryl Maslen, Ph.D.'87, since the very earliest stages of her academic career. Lately, her focus has been on the Down syndrome (DS) population as a potential avenue to uncovering genetic factors causing heart defects in the general population.
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Dr. Girard to lend expertise

Donald Girard, MD, will serve on Bipartisan Policy Center’s expert advisory panel.
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Faculty: Billy Martin, Ph.D

Billy Martin, PhD, works with those who suffer from tinnitus and with colleagues trying to figure out how to shut off this frequently debilitating sound.
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Garet Lahvis, Ph.D.

A research team led by Garet Lahvis, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, recently showed that a strain of mice known as B6 is capable of empathy towards other distressed mice.
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GME Leadership Summit

Inaugural Educational Leadership Summit explores training with emphasis on core competencies
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Heidi Nelson, MD

Although tamoxifen, raloxifen and tibolone dramatically reduce the risk of invasive breast cancer, some patients experience adverse effects, according to a new report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), US Department of Health & Human Services.
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Influx of GME applicants

Influx of applicants to OHSU residency program shows need to increase Oregon’s GME slots
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Jessica Gregg, M.D., Ph.D.

When the day labor site in Portland opens at 7 a.m., there are usually workers waiting outside the chain link fence that borders the former parking lot. Jessica Gregg, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, is frequently also there.
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K. John McConnell, Ph.D.

K. John McConnell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, was a familiar face in the legislative corridors of Salem in the most recent legislative session. Dr. McConnell, a health economist, acted as Chief Economic Advisor to the Oregon Health Fund Board
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Linn Goldberg, M.D.

A Q & A with Dr. Linn Goldberg on anabolic steroid use. Once limited to professional and Olympic athletes, it has now invaded high school sports.
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Margo Haygood, Ph.D.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded $4 million to a group of Philippine and American scientists to aid in the discovery of new molecules and biofuels technology from marine mollusks for development in the Philippines.
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Mary Stenzel-Poore, Ph.D.

Immunologists typically focus their intellectual attention on viruses, bacteria, and parasites, and how these organisms interact with and evade the immune system. Mary Stenzel-Poore, Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, is interested in how the immune system affects the body’s response to injury and repair.
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Maureen Hoatlin, Ph.D.

An editorial in the journal Nature Genetics called the study of Fanconi anemia a "tough and simultaneously scientifically rewarding problem." Maureen Hoatlin, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, agrees wholeheartedly.
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Melanie Gillingham, PhD

Since October 2003, approximately 80 Alaska Native infants have been identified with carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1A (CPT1A) deficiency; previously only 30 published cases were known worldwide.
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Mike Bonazzola, M.D.

People without insurance rely on low-cost community safety net clinics for primary care, but when acute or specialty care needs arise, uninsured people face daunting obstacles. As part of Project Access NOW, physicians across the Portland and Vancouver metro area have come together to help partly alleviate this problem.
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Miles Novy, M.D.

Miles Novy, M.D., observes that every decade since his arrival in Oregon in 1970, "has marked a very important step forward at OHSU in building the research mission. Now, as I look into the future, I see the next big opportunity to be a concerted effort to consolidate and transform this growth and the associated knowledge accumulation into new benefits for women’s health."
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Misha Pavel, Ph.D.

Misha Pavel, Ph.D., new Division Head, charts a course to a future where biomedical engineering stands shoulder to shoulder with clinical care.
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Paper of the Month

A glimpse into the acoustical mechanics of a hearing structure deep within the ear.
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Peter Kurre, M.D.

For years, the potential of using engineered viruses in gene therapy has held out great therapeutic promise while also presenting significant obstacles. Chief among the obstacles is the body's own multifaceted immune response.
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Residency Program

Cascades East Family Medicine residents enter workforce prepared for rural practice.
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Rest and wellness go hand-in-hand

New call rooms for residents and fellows opened in Sam Jackson Hall.
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Rosalie Sears, Ph.D.

The c-Myc oncogene, regularly highly-expressed in most human tumors, has long been of interest to researchers seeking therapeutic targets for cancer treatments. Rosalie Sears, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, is pursuing a road-less- traveled in her research on this oncogene by focusing her attention on the post-translational regulation of the c-Myc oncoprotein.
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Stephen A. Back, M.D., Ph.D.

Stephen A. Back, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, has been awarded a Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award (NINDS) for his pioneering work in the cellular and molecular cause(s) of brain injury in premature infants.
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