The Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research has released their 2016 rankings of NIH funding awards for U.S. medical schools.

OHSU's emergency medicine research funding sat at the number six spot in the nation for the 2016 grant year, which marks this as the fifth consecutive year with a top ten ranking. In addition to the overall achievement, five OHSU EM faculty members found themselves in the top 100 NIH funded principal investigators for Emergency Medicine research:

• #5 - Benjamin Sun
• #17 - John McConnell
• #47 - Craig Warden
• #66 - Matt Hansen
• #81 - Craig Newgard

View the full Blue Ridge Emergency Medicine PI rankings

The data that Blue Ridge uses for determining these rankings is obtained from the Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool (RePORT) from the National Institutes of Health.

The NIH itself does not rank the department strengths of the institutions it funds, so independent assessments like Blue Ridge provide a useful - though not definitive - measurement of how the school fits into the nation's overall biomedical research picture.