Dr. Arthur Hung to serve as interim chair, Department of Radiation Medicine
OHSU School of Medicine and the Department of Radiation Medicine are pleased to announce that Arthur Hung, M.D., associate professor of radiation medicine, will serve as interim chair of the Department of Radiation Medicine beginning July 1, 2021. Read the full statement here.
Charles R. Thomas, Jr., M.D. has stepped down as chair, effective July 1, 2021. Read the full statement here
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December 1, 2021
Ana Dieguez, M.S., medical physics resident, has been appointed as a non-voting member to American Association of Physicists in Medicine's (AAPM) Hispanic and Latin-x Medical Physics Subcommittee (HLMPSC). This committee aims to provide mentorship, networking, outreach and bringing awareness to concerns of the Hispanic medical physics community.
November 23, 2021
Joshua Walker, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor with the Department of Radiation Medicine and the Department of Cell, Developmental and Cancer Biology, was awarded a COVID-relief for Faculty Award for his proposal Novel lipid nanoparticle-based gene therapy for use with ionizing radiation.
October 25, 2021
Department of Radiation Medicine faculty, residents, medical students and research collaborators attended the 2021 American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois. The hybrid meeting was held virtually and in-person. For a list of this year's presenters and posters & abstracts.
October 10, 2021
Susan Hedlund, M.S.W., LCSW, OSW-C, director of Patient and Family Services at the Knight Cancer Institute, discusses her role in training mentors to participate in the “Pink Lemonade Project”, a mentorship program for #BreastCancer survivors, with The Columbian. Read Sisterhood of breast cancer survivors leads the way here.
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