Our vision is to champion and inspire educators and future educators as teachers, scholars, mentors, role models and leaders in the health professions and research. We aim to sustain and nourish their careers at OHSU, enabling them to be successful in developing the next generation of outstanding health care providers, health advocates and scientists.

We are dedicated to continuous improvement, pushing the boundaries of educational innovation and striving for excellence in all that we do. Through our collective efforts, we ensure that our educators and future educators are equipped to lead, inspire and make a lasting impact on the health professions and beyond.

The mission of the Office of Educational Improvement and Innovation is to:

• Establish an educational culture that recognizes and promotes educational excellence.
• Develop all educators to provide learning environments that reinforce diversity, inclusivity, equity and justice.
• Cultivate creative discovery by engaging educators in education scholarship in the health professions.
• Create a learning environment that advances interdisciplinary collaboration and cooperation.
• Ensure that educators use assessment and evaluation data reflectively to evaluate the quality of learning at OHSU.
• Drive OHSU educators' sense of belonging as they onboard through successful wayfinding, mentoring and advising on their academic journeys.
• Support educators with creative and technical expertise to support quality academic activity wherever it occurs.

Our values shape our work.