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OHSU leaders outline statewide role of Oregon's only academic health center, explain public-corporation structure
Summary
Interim OHSU President Steve Statham and Chief of Staff Connie Seeley told the House Committee on Higher Education that Oregon Health & Science University combines education, research and clinical care statewide, and described its public-corporation status and recent board changes.
Oregon Health & Science University leaders told the House Committee on Higher Education and Workforce Development on Jan. 28 that OHSU operates as both a clinical health system and an academic institution, delivering research, education and complex clinical care across Oregon.
"OHSU is Oregon's only academic health center," Interim President Steve Statham said, adding that the university's missions of "education, healthcare and research are the core of everything we do." He said OHSU had about 5,100 students, residents, fellows and postdoctoral researchers and that researchers brought in more than $580,000,000 in grants and funding over the past year.
Why it matters: Statham and Connie Seeley, chief of staff to the president and secretary to OHSU's board, stressed that OHSU's combined…
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