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Lawmakers hear request to fund OHSU addiction‑medicine fellowship to expand specialist pipeline
Summary
Physicians and advocates asked the committee to allocate $1.2 million over two years to sustain and expand the only Oregon addiction‑medicine fellowship, which trains new board‑certified clinicians who are likely to remain in state practice.
Physician advocates told the House Committee on Behavioral Health and Health Care on March 13 that Oregon needs sustained funding for addiction‑medicine training and asked lawmakers to fund the Oregon Health & Science University fellowship with $1.2 million over two years.
Dr. Moxie Loeffler and Dr. David Simmons described the fellowship at OHSU, which trains four…
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