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Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) is a
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focusing primarily on health sciences with a main campus, including two
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s, in
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. The institution was founded in 1887 as the University of Oregon Medical Department and later became the University of Oregon Medical School. In 1974, the campus became an independent, self-governed institution called the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center, combining state dentistry, medicine, nursing, and public health programs into a single center. It was renamed Oregon Health Sciences University in 1981 and took its current name in 2001, as part of a merger with the
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(OGI), in Hillsboro. The university has several partnership programs including a joint
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program with
Oregon State University Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant, research university in Corvallis, Oregon. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate-degree programs along with a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees. It has the 10th largest engineering co ...
in Corvallis. The university's programs are highly ranked nationally, with the School of Medicine ranking in the top 5 for primary care and family medicine residency ranking #1 by ''U.S. News & World Report'', as well as the ophthalmology residency under Casey Eye Institute ranking in the top 10 by ''Ophthalmology Times'' in 2020. It is designated as a "Special Focus - Research Institution" according to the
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.


History

The
Willamette University School of Medicine Willamette University College of Medicine is a former school of medicine that was part of Willamette University. Founded in 1867 as the first medical school in Oregon, the school relocated between Portland and the main university campus in Salem ...
, OHSU's earliest predecessor, was founded in the 1860s in Salem, and was relocated to Portland in the 1870s. In 1915,
Willamette University Willamette University is a private liberal arts college with locations in Salem and Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1842, it is the oldest college in the Western United States. Originally named the Oregon Institute, the school was an unaffiliated ...
and the
University of Oregon The University of Oregon (UO, U of O or Oregon) is a public research university in Eugene, Oregon. Founded in 1876, the institution is well known for its strong ties to the sports apparel and marketing firm Nike, Inc, and its co-founder, billion ...
merged their medical programs to form the University of Oregon Medical School, and in 1919 the school moved to its present location on
Marquam Hill Marquam Hill is a populated hill located just south of Downtown Portland, Oregon, United States in the Homestead neighborhood. It is also called Pill Hill because it is home to Oregon Health & Science University, Portland VA Medical Center and Sh ...
in Southwest Portland. The
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donated and C.S. "Sam" Jackson, publisher of the now-defunct ''
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'' donated the remaining to the school two years prior to the move after the property had been deemed unsuitable for the construction of a
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. Over the next forty years, the school diversified its educational offerings to include nursing and dental programs, and expanded with facilities built during this time on Marquam Hill, including the Multnomah County Hospital, the
Doernbecher Children's Hospital Doernbecher Children's Hospital is an academic teaching children's hospital associated with Oregon Health & Science University located in Portland, Oregon. Established in 1926, it is the first full-service children's hospital in the Pacific Northw ...
, and an outpatient clinic. In 1955, Oregon state senator
Mark Hatfield Mark Odom Hatfield (July 12, 1922 – August 7, 2011) was an American politician and educator from the state of Oregon. A Republican, he served for 30 years as a United States senator from Oregon, and also as chairman of the Senate Appropr ...
co-sponsored a bill to extend the medical school with a
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, and in 1974 the State of Oregon merged the institutions located on Marquam Hill into the University Hospital independent of the
University of Oregon The University of Oregon (UO, U of O or Oregon) is a public research university in Eugene, Oregon. Founded in 1876, the institution is well known for its strong ties to the sports apparel and marketing firm Nike, Inc, and its co-founder, billion ...
. Hatfield's continued support of medical research in Oregon in general and the hospital in particular was recognized by the institution in 1998 with the dedication of the Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center, and the creation of the Hatfield information wall on permanent display in the lobby of the main hospital. In 2008, Governor Kulongoski released an executive order designating the Mark O. Hatfield Chair of the OHSU Board of Directors to commemorate Hatfield's commitment to the institution. The Oregon Graduate Institute merged with OHSU in July 2001, with OGI becoming the
OGI School of Science and Engineering The OGI School of Science and Engineering, located in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States was one of four schools at the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). Until June 2001, it functioned independently as a private graduate school, the Oreg ...
, one of four schools within OHSU at the time. The Oregon Health Sciences University name was modified to the Oregon Health & Science University. The merger was funded in part by a $4 million grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, earmarked to help launch a new biomedical engineering program at the School. The OGI School of Science and Engineering was renamed the Department of Science & Engineering within the School of Medicine at OHSU in 2008. OHSU vacated the OGI campus in Hillsboro in 2014, and its programs were moved to the Marquam Hill complex. On October 29, 2008, OHSU announced its largest philanthropic gift up that time: a $100 million gift from
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co-founder
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and his wife, Penny Knight. The gift went to the OHSU Cancer Institute, renaming it the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute. Five years later, in 2013, Knight announced his intention to donate an additional $500 million to OHSU specifically for cancer research if the university could match it over the subsequent two years. The challenge motivated
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chairwoman
Gert Boyle Gertrude Boyle (''née'' Lamfrom; March 6, 1924 – November 3, 2019) was a German-born American businesswoman in the U.S. state of Oregon. After her family fled Nazi Germany, her father founded the business that became Columbia Sportswear, wher ...
to donate $100 million in 2014. On June 25, 2015, OHSU met the $500 million matching-donations goal, and Knight met with Robin Roberts on Good Morning America that morning to announce his matching $500 million donation, bringing the total to $1 billion raised. OHSU remained Oregon's only medical school until 2011, when
College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Northwest The College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Northwest, also known as COMP Northwest, is a non-profit, private medical school for osteopathic medicine located in Lebanon, in the U.S. state of Oregon. Opened in 2011, the school is a branch ...
opened in
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. The world's first
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use of the
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DNA editing tool was conducted in 2020 at the Casey Eye Institute at OHSU. The procedure is intended to reverse a genetic mutation causing
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, a form of inherited
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.


Animal welfare violations

The
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cited OHSU in February 2020 for animal welfare violation after five prairie voles in its lab died of thirst. The violation followed a routine inspection in January 2020. The university was also cited for practices that risked contaminating surgical tools during procedures for probing a ferret's brain with an electrode. The university's ferret research was shut down for a month in 2019 after inspectors found three violations. These violations bring the number of serious violations at the university's animal lab to nine since 2014.


Campuses

The main campus, located on
Marquam Hill Marquam Hill is a populated hill located just south of Downtown Portland, Oregon, United States in the Homestead neighborhood. It is also called Pill Hill because it is home to Oregon Health & Science University, Portland VA Medical Center and Sh ...
(colloquially known as "Pill Hill") in the southwest neighborhood of
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, is home to the university's medical school as well as two associated hospitals. The
Oregon Health & Science University Hospital Oregon Health & Science University Hospital (OHSU Hospital) is a 576-bed teaching hospital, biomedical research facility, and Level I trauma center located on the campus of Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland in the U.S. state ...
is a
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and general hospital;
Doernbecher Children's Hospital Doernbecher Children's Hospital is an academic teaching children's hospital associated with Oregon Health & Science University located in Portland, Oregon. Established in 1926, it is the first full-service children's hospital in the Pacific Northw ...
is a
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which specializes in pediatric medicine and care of children with long-term illness. The university maintains a number of outpatient primary care facilities including the Physician's Pavilion at the Marquam Hill campus as well as throughout the
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. A third hospital, the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center is located next to the main OHSU campus; this hospital is run by the
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and is outside the auspices of OHSU. A pedestrian skybridge connecting OHSU Hospital and the VA Medical Center was constructed in 1992. Additionally, the Portland Shriners Hospital for Children is located on the OHSU campus. The university also had a campus in Hillsboro, at the site of the former OGI. This campus specialized in graduate-level science and engineering education and is located in the heart of Oregon's
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. Since 1998, the university has controlled the
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, located adjacent to OGI in Hillsboro.With the Marquam Hill campus running out of room for expansion, beginning in 2003 OHSU announced plans to expand into the South Waterfront District, formerly known as the North Macadam District. The expansion area is along the
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in the South Portland neighborhood to the east of Marquam Hill and south of the city center. The Center for Health & Healing earned
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certification in February 2007, becoming the largest health care center in the U.S. to achieve that status. As part of the continued expansion of the South Waterfront, on June 26, 2014, OHSU opened the Collaborative Life Sciences Building (CLSB). The building cost $295 million to construct, and houses OHSU School of Dentistry and Dental Clinics,
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classes and Oregon State University's Doctor of Pharmacy program. In April, 2018, CLSB was renamed to the Joseph E. Robertson, Jr. Collaborative Life Sciences Building (RLSB). As existing surface streets were deemed insufficient to connect the South Waterfront campus to the Marquam Hill campus, the
Portland Aerial Tram The Portland Aerial Tram or OHSU Tram is an aerial tramway in Portland, Oregon, that connects the city's South Waterfront district and the main Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) campus, located in the Marquam Hill neighborhood. It is one ...
was built as the primary link between them and opened December 1, 2006. Controversy surrounded the costs of the tram, which nearly quadrupled from initial estimates. Construction of the tram was funded largely by OHSU ($40 million, 70%), with contributions from the city of Portland ($8.5 million, 15%) and developers and landowners in the South Portland neighborhood. On January 8, 2008, OHSU announced that it will establish a
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at the Florida Center for Innovation at Tradition in the Tradition community in
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. The institute eventually will employ 200 workers. Institute scientists will study
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of the
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,
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and other infectious diseases and
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. OHSU will work out of the adjacent
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until its own center is completed. A $117.9 million financial
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package from the state of Florida secured OHSU's commitment.


Academics


School of Medicine

The OHSU School of Medicine has a faculty of approximately 1,750 and confers a variety of degrees, including
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,
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,
Master of Science A Master of Science ( la, Magisterii Scientiae; abbreviated MS, M.S., MSc, M.Sc., SM, S.M., ScM or Sc.M.) is a master's degree in the field of science awarded by universities in many countries or a person holding such a degree. In contrast to ...
,
Master of Physician Assistant Studies A physician assistant or physician associate (PA) is a type of mid-level health care provider. In North America PAs may diagnose illnesses, develop and manage treatment plans, prescribe medications, and may serve as a principal healthcare provi ...
, and
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. In 2022, the ''U.S. News & World Report'' ranked OHSU 4th overall in Primary Care Rankings and 32nd in Research Rankings. In addition, the publication ranked the school 1st in Family Medicine. As one of only two medical schools in
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, and the only awarding a Doctor of Medicine degree (
College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Northwest The College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Northwest, also known as COMP Northwest, is a non-profit, private medical school for osteopathic medicine located in Lebanon, in the U.S. state of Oregon. Opened in 2011, the school is a branch ...
located in
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awards a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree and was established in 2011), OHSU is committed to meeting the health care needs of the state with typically 70% of the students from in-state. Admissions is highly competitive, with the school receiving over 6,700 applications and interviewing approximately 570 applicants for 150 seats. The average GPA of the entering class is 3.63 with a median MCAT score of 509. Its Physician Assistant program was most recently ranked 5th by ''U.S. News & World Report''.


School of Dentistry

OHSU's School of Dentistry was merged into the university in 1945. Accredited through the
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, the school has departments in endodontics, orthodontics, pathology and radiology, oral and maxillofacial surgery, periodontics, and pediatric dentistry, among others. The D.M.D. program admits 75 students each year. In 2014, the School of Dentistry program moved to the Collaborative Life Sciences Building on Portland's South Waterfront along with the School of Medicine.


School of Nursing

The School of Nursing at OHSU offers nursing programs at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels. The graduate nursing program was most recently ranked 7th overall in the nation by the ''U.S. News & World Report'' and 5th in the gerontology/geriatric specialty.


OHSU Foundation

The Oregon Health & Science University Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization that exists to advance OHSU's mission through philanthropy. The Doernbecher Children's Hospital Foundation merged with the OHSU Foundation in 2021.


Controversies


Aerial tram

In 2001, OHSU purchased property in what is now known as the
South Waterfront The South Waterfront is a high-rise district under construction on former brownfield industrial land in the South Portland neighborhood south of downtown Portland, Oregon, U.S. It is one of the largest urban redevelopment projects in the Unite ...
neighborhood with intentions to expand its facilities there. After the purchase, OHSU began developing plans with the Portland Office of Transportation to connect this location to its Marquam Hill facilities by way of an
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. Before construction of the tram began in 2005, the project was criticized by residents in the neighborhoods located directly below the projected tram route who believed its construction would result in an invasion of privacy and lower property values. The group No Tram to OHSU argued that OHSU had not sufficiently justified the benefits of the tram, that the tram would not alleviate
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on Marquam Hill as OHSU claimed, and that the project inappropriately made use of public right of way for private purposes. During the construction phase, the project came under additional public scrutiny amid rising construction and operation costs. The final cost of its construction was $57 million, almost 4 times over its original projected budget. After opening in December 2006, the tram carried its one millionth passenger on October 17, 2007, and its ten millionth rider on January 8, 2014.


PETA

In 2006, the animal rights group
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brought attention to OHSU research involving sheep. The research, which was being conducted in conjunction with
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was designed to understand the biological mechanisms involved in sexual partner preference.


Notable alumni and faculty

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Shoshana R. Ungerleider Shoshana Rebecca Ungerleider is an American medical doctor, journalist and film producer. She was educated at The University of Oregon and Oregon Health and Science University. As of June 2021, Ungerleider is the host of the TED Health Podcast, p ...
, Internal Medicine Physician, film producer *
Esther Choo Esther Choo is an emergency physician and professor at the Oregon Health & Science University. She is a popular science communicator who has used social media to talk about racism and sexism in healthcare. She was the president of the Academy of ...
, Emergency physician, president of the Academy of Women in Academic Emergency Medicine *
Brian Druker Brian J. Druker (born April 30, 1955) is a physician-scientist at Oregon Health & Science University, in Portland, Oregon. He is the director of OHSU's Knight Cancer Institute, Jeld-Wen Chair of Leukemia Research, and professor of medicine. In 2 ...
, Physician, co-developer of
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and director of the Knight Cancer Institute * Suzanne Fei, Computational biologist, Bioinformatics & Biostatistics Core Director * N. Gregory Hamilton, Psychiatrist * Matthew Keeslar, Physician Assistant Instructor of Urology, School of Medicine. Former professional actor (''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'') *
John Kitzhaber John Albert Kitzhaber (born March 5, 1947) is an American former politician who served as the 35th governor of Oregon from 1995 to 2003, and as the 37th governor of Oregon from 2011 until his resignation in 2015. A member of the Democratic Party ...
, Physician, longest-serving governor in Oregon's history *
Muriel Lezak Muriel Elaine Deutsch Lezak (August 26, 1927 – October 6, 2021) was an American neuropsychologist best known for her book ''Neuropsychological Assessment'', widely accepted as the standard in the field. Her work has centred on the research, ...
, American neuropsychologist and author *
Bud Pierce William C. "Bud" Pierce (born October 3, 1956) is an American physician and politician. He was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for Governor of Oregon in the 2016 special election. Early life and career Pierce was born in Germany and raised i ...
, Physician and politician *
Lendon Smith Lendon Howard Smith (June 3, 1921 – November 17, 2001) was an American Ob/Gyn, pediatrician, author, and television personality. He was notable for his advice on parenting and advocating children's health and eating issues. He was known to fans ...
, OB/GYN, pediatrician, author, and television personality *
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, Expert in cardiac arrhythmias * Marc Freeman, Director of the Vollum Institute * Owen McCarty, Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering * Melissa Wong, Cancer stem cell biologist


See also

* Art collection of Oregon Health & Science University * Marquam Nature Park


References


External links

* *
Official website
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