OHSU Week

Doing work you love is a key ingredient in a long, satisfying career. No one knows this better than Robert Watzke, a professor in the OHSU Casey Eye Institute. Dr. Watzke joined OHSU as a full professor in 1984 after a 30-year career in Iowa. He recently retired but is still involved in teaching residents. Guests include: Dr. Robert Watzke - OHSU Casey Eye Institute

OHSU’s Ambulatory Care division has seen a steady rise in patient visits over the years. That growth – coupled with the convenience that consumers now expect – has led to an intensive project to make it easier for clinic patients to see the providers they need. Guests include: Kevin O’Boyle - Vice President, Ambulatory Care

As medical students, Elena Griffin and Jennifer Thompson wanted to help other parents and parents-to-be find information and resources for their families. Together, with the help of several OHSU leaders and the Affirmation Action and Equal Opportunity Department, they developed a webpage that serves as a touchpoint for students or employees who are pregnant or parenting. It has information about benefits, options, rights, protections and policies. You can find the Pregnant and Parenting at OHSU webpage on the OHSU Title IX site. Employees and students can also access the information on O2. https://www.ohsu.edu/title-ix/pregnant-and-parenting Guests include: - Laura Stadum, Director, Affirmation Action and Equal Opportunity Department and Title IX Coordinator - Elena Griffin, M.D., Class of 2019 - Jennifer Thompson, M.D., Class of 2019

Wy'east is the name for Mt. Hood given by the Multnomah tribe of Native Americans who first came to the area. The mountain is a symbol of strength and hope. It’s also the name of a new pathway for American Indian and Alaska Native students to enter medical school. The first year of the Wy’east Postbaccalaurete Pathway was a major success. It’s hosted by the Northwest Native American Center of Excellence. Tracey Lam sat down with its executive director, as well as a couple of the students, to learn more about the significance of the initiative for OHSU and the community. Guests include: Erik Brodt, M.D. - assistant professor of family medicine, School of Medicine; executive director, Northwest Native American Center of Excellence Kyna Lewis, M.D. - Class of 2023 Aaron Thomas, M.D. - Class of 2023

Hospitals are busy, dynamic environments where nurses constantly monitor patient needs, prioritize work and step in to help one another. A current study at OHSU is exploring ways to help with these activities by looking at the data that’s constantly generated on an inpatient unit. In the future, early warnings of clinician overload could help charge nurses make real-time adjustments and reschedule tasks to improve workflow. Guests include: Dana Womack - Assistant Professor, School of Medicine and School of Nursing

Through research in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of childhood bacterial infection, the Center for Global Child Health Research is committed to improving the outcomes of child health worldwide. A new series called Conversations in Global Health aims to expand this commitment by engaging a community of global health researchers across OHSU. Guests include: David Lewinsohn, M.D., M.P.H., professor of pediatrics and pulmonary and critical care medicine, Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Medicine and member of the Oregon Tuberculosis Research Lab.

In January 2020, representatives of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education will come to OHSU for an accreditation site visit of the School of Medicine M.D. program. Learn about the months-long self-study process that leads up to this important moment. Guests include: Dr. Tracy Bumsted, associate dean for undergraduate medical education in the School of Medicine Alex Hernandez, M.D. student in the Class of 2020 and co-chair of the LCME student committee. Learn more on O2, at the School of Medicine LCME website.

When children have chronic or terminal illnesses, caregivers are called upon to provide a special level of care, communication and help with decision-making. But most of what we know about palliative care is based on hospice for adults. The Bridges Palliative Care program at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital is working to fill that information gap and provide what young patients and their families really need. Guests include: Kathy Perko, M.S., PNP, program director at Bridges Palliative Care.

Sometimes words and terms have been around for so long that we take them for granted. Fortunately, a nurse manager took notice of one particularly harmful term on a medical device and did something about it. Tracey Lam shares the story of how an individual voice is creating a wave of positive change. Guests include: • Gina Hawley, Dr.P.H., vice president, Professional and Support Services • David Quitmeyer, M.H.A., R.R.T., director, Respiratory Care Services • Adrienne McDougal, M.N., R.N., nurse manager, Medical Intensive Care Unit and Critical Care Float Pool

OHSU Research Week is an annual university-wide event that celebrates research performed by students, faculty, postdocs, and staff across all schools, centers, institutes and education programs. Research week runs May 13- 15th. Guests include: Kalisha Bonds - Student Danielle Mathiessen - Student

Take Your Child to Work Day allows parents to show their children what a day at work is like. This annual event brings new meaning to workplace education. Guests include: Kat Phillips - Program Manager, Employee Engagement Take your child to work day participants

For many employees, getting their first job at OHSU is only the beginning of a long career. Lisa spoke with two employees about their individual career paths and how they used professional development resources to maximize their success.

Earlier this year, several of you responded to a survey asking what you like about OHSU Week and how we can do better. In response to your feedback, we’ll be experimenting with some changes to the OHSU Week format. In addition to our main interview, my colleague Lisa Carter will be joining me each week to briefly talk through some other top stories. Let us know what you think, and, as always, thank you for listening. The all-new OHSU Now launches this Friday. This week, Lisa and I talk about what this new platform can do and why we’re launching it.

OHSU investigators are making the world a better place for everyone by discovering new therapies for previously intractable diseases, identifying genes that can be targeted for treatments and developing imaging techniques that make new levels of diagnostics possible. Guests include: Lisa Lukaesko - Alliance Manager, OHSU Technology Transfer and Business Development

Quality improvement and patient safety are important concerns that hospitals address every day, but graduate medical education programs haven’t been required to training new doctors on the subjects. In July of this year, that changes – and OHSU is responding with a new bootcamp that was developed using OPEx, the OHSU Performance Excellence system. Guests include: Jacob Luty - Nocturnal Clinical Hospitalist