
Janet Tate Crum
Interesting article in today's Chronicle of Higher Education on medical students and Facebook: http://chronicle.com/article/There-May-B e-Skeletons-in-Your/63803/?sid=at&utm_so urce=at&utm_medium=en
There May Be Skeletons in Your Doc's Online Profile - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Medical students at the turn of the century often took pictures of themselves with cadavers or skeletons. This postcard from 1911 is inscribed on the back: "Dr. ___'s first patient!"

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School of Medicine colleagues pair up on water project in Haiti.
Heidi Kriz, RD, MPH and Kay Mattson, MSW, MPH, colleagues in the School of Medicine’s Center for Evidence-based Policy, have been volunteering their time to help a Haitian community for over a year prior to the earthquake. Working with the Portland Profess...ional Chapter of Engineers Without Borders, they have spearheaded a project focused on improving quality of and access to drinking water for the people of Les Anglais - a community of over 17,000 in south west Haiti. Read more about their work and see photos of Les Anglais at the link below.
www.ewbportland.org
Invaluable assistance has been provided by brothers, Etienne and Norbert, who work as agronomists in the Les Anglais region.

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Arpana Naik, MD, assistant professor, and the breakthrough INTRABEAM treatment for breast cancer featured on KOIN/CBS news. See link below to KOIN and here is the OHSU media release: http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/about/news_events /news/knightintrabeamtreatment.cfm.

OHSU School of Medicine Thanks to our first and second year medical students, who have elected to direct $5,500 in previously-pledged funds to provide wheelchairs for the many Haitians who have suffered leg amputations as a result of the January 12 earthquake. The money will partially cover the $8,200 required to ship a full container of whee...lchairs to Haiti through the Wheelchair Foundation. You can join their efforts at the secure website below – but please put “OHSU” in the comment box to ensure your donation supports our students!
www.wheelchairfoundation.org
The Wheelchair Foundation is a nonprofit organization leading an international effort to create awareness of the needs and abilities of people with physical disabilities, to promote the joy of giving, ...

Merlin
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Someday, the 19 acres now devoted to surface parking immediately south of the Marquam Bridge will be the training ground for new generations of doctors, nurses and dentists.

Alexander Krach
Greetings OHSU colleagues. I wanted to invite you all down to beautiful
Southern Oregon as we welcome bestselling author and Stanford
University School of Medicine physician Dr. Abraham Verghese.
Dr. Verghese will deliver the lecture "Touching Where it Hurts-the Art
of Medicine in a Technological Era" Monday February 8, 2...010 at 7:00PM
at the Smullin Health Education Center on the campus of Rogue Valley
Medical Center in Medford.
The lecture is free and we welcome all interested-please RSVP to 888-688-4920
or on the web at
http://www.asante.org/classes-events/eve nt-search-results-detail.aspx?eventId=58 01da58-65be-de11-bb72-001cc417c440
This will be Dr. Verghese's only Oregon appearance. The evening promises to be amazing! Why not come down and
join us?

OHSU School of Medicine Interested in research? Thinking about applying to graduate school? Curious about the biomedical sciences? Equity Summer Research Program now accepting applications....
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An exciting opportunity to spend 8 to 10 weeks working with faculty and graduate students in a research setting, learning new skills, and gaining experience.

OHSU School of Medicine Thanks to Shelley E. for setting up a School of Medicine fundraising page at Mercy Corps to support relief efforts in HAITI. Every little bit helps. Here is the link.
www.mercycorps.org
As international relief efforts continue in Haiti, a Mercy Corps earthquake response team is in Port-au-Prince responding to urgent needs.

Shelley The School of Medicine has created a webpage through MercyCorp to accept donations. Our page is called the OHSU School of Medicine. No monetary goal has been set , so please feel free to participate as you wish and are able to do so.
www.mercycorps.org
As international relief efforts continue in Haiti, a Mercy Corps earthquake response team is in Port-au-Prince responding to urgent needs.

OHSU School of Medicine OHSU faculty member Dr. Nick Gideonse and third-year resident Dr. Corrine Cohen spoke to local media today about their upcoming travel to Haiti. They leave tomorrow (Jan 21) with teams of health care professionals and medical supplies, and will treat patients in clinics located at Les Cayes and Saint-Marc. Here are some photos from the media session.
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OHSU School of Medicine Our students created a fundraising page for Partners in Health (see link below) to stand with Haiti. Please share what you, your friends and others are doing too on this FB page too, and we connect with each other on these efforts.
act.pih.org
When a Person in Peru, or Siberia, or rural Haiti falls ill, PIH uses all of the means at our disposal to make them well…

Med Job Louisiana VIRTUAL JOB FAIR - Med Job Louisiana will be hosting a virtual job fair beginning February 1st. Register to attend this interactive event and chat with healthcare facilities about practice opportunities throughout the state of Louisiana.
www.MedicalJobFair.org
Med Job Louisiana hosts several recruitment events throughout the year, including specialty specific career fairs throughout the state. For more information regarding Med Job Louisiana events, contact Jenny Stephens, Events Coordinator at 337.989.0001 or jstephens@medjoblouisiana.com.

OHSU School of Medicine Remember that Hollywood movie "Extraordinary Measures" that was partly filmed at OHSU? Harrison Ford, Brendan Frasier, Keri Russell, and a few of our own stars? Here is the trailer for it...
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Thanks for visiting the Extraordinary Measures site! Brendan Fraser, Harrison Ford and Keri Russell star in Extraordinary Measures for CBS Films, in theaters January 22, 2010. We tried updating your flash but apparently it's not installed on your machine. ...

OHSU School of Medicine Putting more boots on the ground: Dr Lisa Dodson, Dept of Family Medicine, talks about provider shortages in the Sunday Oregonian as part of OHSU's "Fixing the Health Care System" series.
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Lisa Dodson, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, shared her perspective on the health care impact of the growing physician shortage in Oregon, especially in rural Oregon. As a family ...

OHSU School of Medicine Portland Monthly magazine honored 97 OHSU physicians in its annual survey of Portland’s “Top Doctors.” This represents the largest percentage of physicians from any hospital or health system in the area. Clink on the link below to see the full listing from Portland Monthly.
www.portlandmonthlymag.com
Top Doctors 2010 - We asked 5,000 doctors and 2,000 nurses chosen at random from throughout the tri-county area and southern Washington to participate in compiling this. Our comprehensive list of Portland’s ...




























