Dr. Mengyu Zhou is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at OHSU. Based at OHSU Health Hillsboro Medical Center, she divides her clinical time as a hospitalist between the Hillsboro and Marquam Hill campuses. She is passionate about medical education and serves as an Associate Program Director for the OHSU Hillsboro Internal Medicine Residency Program. She established the OHSU School of Medicine Internal Medicine Acting Internship rotation at Hillsboro, where she continues to serve as site director. She completed her internal medicine residency at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, and subsequently served on the UCSF faculty before joining her family in Portland.

Her primary clinical and academic interests center on learning and teaching clinical reasoning, and she is a team member of the Clinical Problem Solvers. As an Associate Program Director, she leads multiple educational initiatives and works closely with faculty to build a robust and structured residency curriculum. She is deeply invested in advancing clinical reasoning education through resident case conferences and curriculum innovation. Her other interests include integrating point-of-care ultrasound into bedside teaching and patient care, and developing self-assessment tools to help trainees navigate complex learning environments with a growth mindset. Through her part-time role in clinical informatics, she applies a health informatics lens and related tools to systematically improve patient care and medical education.

In her free time, she enjoys nerding out with her fellow clinical problem solvers, listening to audiobooks, learning Spanish, and spending time with her family.