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OHSU takes seriously our responsibility to keep employees and patients safe. When employees are safe, their ability to flourish and contribute to a safe working environment increases. Unfortunately, our emergency department is seeing an increasing number of weapons entering patient care areas. As one solution, we are installing a metal detector in the emergency department entrance and will study its use for six months.

Guests include: 
Desiree McCue, B.S.N., M.B.A., RN, CENP
Director of nursing, Emergency Services

David Jones, M.D.
Associate professor of emergency medicine, OHSU School of Medicine

Everyday safety in OHSU’s emergency department

Are you looking for a way to grow your career at OHSU? The Career and Workplace Enhancement Center offers classes, career counseling and much more to get you on the right path to find the career of your dreams. And last week, OHSU re-achieved Magnet status.

Guests include: 
Christine Lundeen – senior trainer, Career and Workplace Enhancement Center
Molly Clasen – project coordinator, Career and Workplace Enhancement Center  
Donna Havens, chair of the Commission for the Magnet Recognition Program at the American Nurses Credentialing Center
Dana Bjarnason, vice president and chief nursing officer

Grow your career, Magnet status recognition

Preventing sexual harassment at OHSU

This year, OHSU will transition to a new approach to performance management known as GROW Conversations. Instead of a formal, annual appraisal, most employees will have regular performance discussions with their manager throughout the year.  

Guests include: 
Benjy Howe – Director, Learning and Organizational Development
Signe Bishop – Learning and Development Specialist and Project Manager for the GROW implementation

MLK Celebration:
Monique Hedmann – M.P.H.
Poem: “This Life for Ours”

Deborah Prothrow-Stith – Dean and Professor, College of Medicine, Charles R. Drew University
Keynote address

Learning to GROW

OHSU aspires to be a great organization, diverse in people and ideas. As part of ongoing efforts to improve the climate of inclusion, OHSU recently launched a campus-wide initiative on unconscious bias.

Guest: 
Dr. Brian Gibbs - Vice President for Equity and Inclusion

Unconscious bias campus-wide initiative

Four years ago, BUILD EXITO, an undergraduate research training program, was launched to serve underrepresented communities in biomedical research. The program is organized through the Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute, with more than 300 students currently enrolled. OHSU serves as the research-intensive partner, providing crucial support, guidance, and expertise as PSU develops and implements EXITO.

Guests include: 
Keeley McConnell
Research Assistant 2

A leap of faith

The OHSU Board of Directors recently approved a 3.1 billion dollar budget for fiscal year 2019. In the budget, revenue is project to rise 6 percent.

Guests include: Lawrence Furnstahl, executive vice president and chief financial officer

FY19 budget set at 3.1 billion

In 2017, OHSU’s Technology Transfer and Business Development office supported 151 new innovations by 247 inventors. Supporting OHSU’s clinical and research communities, the Business Development team promotes innovation with an entrepreneurial culture.

Guests include: 
Abhijit (Jit)Banerjee, PhD, MBA
Senior Director, Technology Transfer and Business Development

Karen Boren
Project Coordinator, Technology Transfer and Business Development

Promoting Innovation

The white-cheeked gibbon shares 96 percent of its genetic makeup with humans, making them a good model for investigating genomic evolution. A researcher at OHSU is using gibbons to compare DNA structures to investigate congenital diseases.

Guests include: 
Lucia Carbone
Director of Epigenetics Consortium

Are genomes really like Legos?

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.

End-of-life care for kids

The Spark Health Evaluation program is a starting point for understanding your health and what risk factors you may face. Spark offers anyone who completes a Spark Health Evaluation free enrollment in a Health Enhancement Program. 

Guests include:
Kimberly Regner
Program Technician

Beth Kempton
Senior Research Associate

The Spark of health

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