Congrats to our Portland Monthly Top Medical Providers!

Congratulations to the following APOM Faculty Members listed in the Portland Monthly Annual Top Medical Providers:

  • Physicians Drs. Emily Baird, Jorge Pineda, and Brandon Togioka
  • CRNAs Dr. Kristin Bowden, Diane Knapp, Kirstin Patrick and Bryan Read
  • APP Dr. Diana Clapp
  • Naturopath Dr. Alena Guggenheim

Research

Congratulations to Drs. Erin Conner, Eric Schnell, Selva Baltan, Michael Hutchens, and Sandy Christiansen for being selected to host a medical student in Summer 2022 through the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research’s (FAER) Medical Student Anesthesia Research Fellowship program. This continues our long-standing participation in this FAER program and provides a pathway for medical students to engage in Anesthesia as well as Research.

Congratulations to Drs. Zhiping “Jim” Cao, Carmen Methner, Anusha Misra, and Sanjiv Kaul for their acknowledgment by the American Physiological Society for distinction in scholarship in the American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology for their article titled “Mechanism and Potential Treatment of the 'No Reflow' phenomenon After Acute Myocardial Infarction: Role of Pericytes and GPR39”. The published work, for the first time, provided pathophysiological and mechanistic bases by which pericytes regulate myocardial capillary blood flow via GPR39 receptor. These findings could potentially open up a novel avenue for future research to test specific GPR39 inhibitors as a potential clinical intervention in the treatment of ischemia-related heart disease.

Congratulations to Dr. Kim Mauer, who had a new publication come out in Pain Med, which was also presented at the National Hemophilia Society in a Grand Rounds Journal Club on Dec 2nd. Understanding the Pain Management Landscape within the US Bleeding Disorder Community: A Multi-Center Survey.