Academic and Student Affairs

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The Office of Academic and Student Affairs at Oregon Health & Science University works as a catalyst to support academic and student success. Whether you have questions about academic services, life at OHSU, or if you are a current or prospective faculty member, our dedicated staff is here to help you by providing a variety of services to students, faculty, and staff. Read More

Student Services

Student Services Resource Center

Information and resources pertaining to current and prospective students.

Campus Life Services

Campus Life Services Resource Center
Information and resources pertaining to life on campus and social activities in and around the surrounding Portland Area.

Faculty Services

Faculty Services Resource Center
Information and resources pertaining to current and prospective faculty.

Meet the Provost

Jeanette Mladenovic, M.D., M.B.A., M.A.C.P., has been named the new provost for Oregon Health & Science University.

Dr. Mladenovic comes to OHSU from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine where she currently serves as the senior associate dean. Prior to her arrival at the University of Miami, Dr. Mladenovic served in administrative posts at the State University of New York, the University of Colorado, the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the University of Minnesota. Her vast experience also includes health research. Read More

OHSU Faculty Spotlight ...

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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J. Henry Clarke, DMD, M.S.

Dr. Clarke is a Professor Emeritus at Oregon Health & Science University School of Dentistry. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Portland State University and a Doctor of Dental Medicine degree from the University of Oregon School of Dentistry (now OHSU).
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Gail Houck, Ph.D, R.N, PMHNP

Dr. Houck, currently serving as a professor with the Academic Graduate & Interdisciplinary Programs within the School of Nursing credits her interest in understanding how to help parents learn the optimal ways to foster a developmentally healthy and well-adjusted child through her experience as a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner
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Paul Brehm, Ph.D.

Research in our lab utilizes the zebrafish animal model to explore the role of activity in regulating synapse development. In developing zebrafish the neuromuscular junction is readily accessible in vivo for both imaging and patch clamp electrophysiology. Our current approach utilizes mutant lines of fish that, due to defects in the motorneuron to muscle pathway, have profound motility dysfunction.
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Ron Sakaguchi DDS MS PhD MBA

Dr. Sakaguchi is the Associate Dean for Technology & Innovation as well as the Professor, Biomaterials & Biomechanics in the Department of Restorative Dentistry. Dr. Sakaguchi's areas of interest include; thermomechanical behavior of polymer matrix composites and implementing digital resources for education and research.
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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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Judith Baggs, PhD, RN, FAAN

"My passion in nursing is care for adult ICU patients, how to improve that care by improving the work of the ICU care provider team, with nurses, physicians, other providers, families and patients working together. My current research interest is concerned with how decision making could be improved when patients are most critically ill and decisions about limitation of treatment are considered."
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David B. Mahler, Ph.D.

Over the past 30 years, our team has conducted both laboratory and clinical research on dental amalgam. Our primary purpose has been to develop new amalgam systems that will demonstrate improved clinical performance and increased longevity.
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Kathleen Grant, PhD.

Kathleen A. Grant is a Professor in the Department of Behavioral Neurosciences at OHSU and a Senior Scientist in the Division of Neuroscience at the ONPRC. She earned her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Washington in 1984 and accepted a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago.
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Buddy Ullman, PhD

Amalgamating the tools and techniques from the diverse scientific disciplines of molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, cell biology, immunocytochemistry, structural biology, and computational chemistry, the Ullman laboratory focuses on unique transport and metabolic pathways in protozoan parasites that might be amenable to therapeutic manipulation.
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Kathie Lasater EdD RN ANEF

My primary goal in nursing education is to prepare students to become excellent clinical thinkers through the integration of theory, research, and pedagogy. To that end, my secondary goal is to support, collaborate with, and mentor faculty colleagues to do same.To understand that transformation and be able to foster it in students has been the driving passion of my practice as an education researcher in clinical judgment and educator, employing strategies that support learning and the development of clinical judgment, such as interactive learning and simulation.
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Kent Thornburg, Ph.D

One project of Thornburg’s is the study of low birth weight as an indicator of diseases later in life, particularly type II diabetes, high blood pressure and osteoporosis. If a baby is born small at term, he says, it means that the fetus went through a less-than-optimal developmental process, making him or her more likely to have diseases later. Three factors that cause low birth weight are: fetal malnutrition; the placenta doesn’t work right, or the baby gets low oxygen; the baby gets too much of the stress hormone from the mother, causing slower growth.
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Misha Pavel, Ph.D.

Recently appointed Head of the Division of Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Science & Engineering, Misha Pavel, Ph.D., envisions a future in which the Division is differentiated from similar units at other schools by its close relationship to clinical care.
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Honora Englander, MD

Honora Englander, MD. Faculty Hospital Medicine and OHSU Medical Liaison for Underserved Care. Honora’s interest in global health is rooted in a desire to promote health equity through partnerships in medical education. As a medical student, Honora spent a year in Ecuador where she learned Spanish and worked alongside local providers doing public health outreach in rural communities.
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Barry T. Uchida, B.S.

Barry Uchida has been a cornerstone of the Dotter Institute since its formation, and has been employed at OHSU since 1984. He now serves as director of the Institute’s research laboratory. Uchida has played a key role in the research and development of biliary, venous and esophageal stents, fallopian tube recanalization and transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts, transjugular biopsy devices and covered stents.
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Yen Pham, RPh, BS

Yen is an Assistant Director for Ambulatory Services with responsibilities for all OHSU ambulatory care pharmacy areas, with an interest in expanding OHSU pharmacy services into new areas such as specialty pharmacy services, medication therapy management, mail order and employee benefits. Her administrative interests include ambulatory operations, building consensus, and expansion of the pharmacy profession.
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