Oregon Health and Science University

{{short description|Medical university in Portland, Oregon, United States}} {{Use American English|date=September 2025}} {{Infobox university | name = Oregon Health and Science University | image_alt = Oregon Health Sciences University | image = OregonHealthSciUniv.jpg | image_size = | latin_name = | caption = Oregon Health Sciences University | motto = "Where Healing, Teaching and Discovery Come Together" | established = {{start date and age|June 16, 1887}}<ref name="History">{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.ohsu.edu/about/history|website=OHSU|access-date=9 March 2020}}</ref> | type = Public research university | accreditation = NWCCU | president = Shereef Elnahal<ref name="president2025">{{Cite web |title=OHSU’s new president Shereef Elnahal on building trust and potential funding cuts|last=Templeton|first=Amelia |url=https://www.opb.org/article/2025/06/30/ohsu-president-shereef-elnahal-building-trust-potential-funding-cuts/ |access-date=2025-08-15 |website=opb |language=en}}</ref> | provost = Marie Chisholm-Burns<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ohsu.edu/education/office-provost|title=Office of the Provost | OHSU|website=www.ohsu.edu}}</ref> | city = Portland | state = Oregon | country = United States | coor = {{coord|45|29|56.1|N|122|41|19.5|W|display=inline,title|type:edu}} | students = 4,123 (total)<ref name="Enrollment 2020">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ohsu.edu/sites/default/files/2020-12/IER202101-New%202_2.pdf|title=OHSU Institution Enrollment Report: Fall 2020}}</ref> | undergrad = | postgrad = | staff = | campus = Large city<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=oregon&s=all&id=209490|title=College Navigator - Oregon Health & Science University|website=nces.ed.gov}}</ref> | campus_size = {{convert|400|acres|km2}} | former_names = Willamette University College of Medicine (1867–1913)<ref name="History" /> University of Oregon Medical Department (1887–1915)<ref name="History" /> Tacoma College of Dental Surgery (1892–1899) Oregon College of Dentistry (1898–1899) North Pacific College of Dentistry (1899-1908) North Pacific College of Oregon (1908–1945) University of Oregon Medical School (1915–1974)<ref name="History" /> University of Oregon Health Sciences Center (1974–1981)<ref name="History" /> Oregon Health Sciences University (1981–2001)<ref name="History" /> Oregon Graduate Center of Science and Technology (1963–1989)<ref name="History" /> Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology (1989–2001)<ref name="History" /> | mascot = | website = {{URL|http://www.ohsu.edu}} | endowment = $1.3 billion (2025)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/nacubo1-nacubo-prd-dc8b/media/Nacubo/Documents/EndowmentFiles/2025-NCSE-Endowment-Market-Values-for-US-and-Canadian-Institutions-FINAL.xlsx |title=U.S. and Canadian 2025 NCSE Participating Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2025 Endowment Market Value |publisher=National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) |access-date=February 17, 2026 |format=XLSX}}</ref> | budget = | logo = OHSU-RGB-4C-POS.png | logo_size = 70px | colors = {{color box|#ffc72c}} Horizon {{color box|#7d9cc0}} Marquam {{color box|#64a70b}} Terwilliger {{color box|#545859}} Charcoal<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://o2.ohsu.edu/communications/services/printing-and-distribution/upload/OHSU-Brand-Manual-2.pdf|title=OHSU Brand Manual}}</ref> }}

'''Oregon Health and Science University'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Oregon Health and Science University {{!}} National Prevention Information Network |url=https://npin.cdc.gov/organization/oregon-health-and-science-university-3 |access-date=2025-11-15 |website=npin.cdc.gov}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Oregon Health Authority : Hospital Reporting Information : Office of Health Analytics : State of Oregon |url=https://www.oregon.gov/oha/hpa/analytics/pages/hospital-details.aspx?View=%7B%7B2F47E5CB-E702-4D24-99C9-5D746709E8A0%7D%7D&SelectedID=28 |access-date=2025-11-15 |website=www.oregon.gov}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Oregon Health and Science University {{!}} Digital Healthcare Research |url=https://digital.ahrq.gov/organization/oregon-health-and-science-university |access-date=2025-11-15 |website=digital.ahrq.gov}}</ref> ('''OHSU''') is a public research university focusing primarily on health sciences with a main campus, including two hospitals, in Portland, Oregon.

The institution was founded in 1887 as the '''University of Oregon Medical Department''' and later became the '''University of Oregon Medical School'''.<ref name="History" /> 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.<ref name="History" /> It was renamed '''Oregon Health Sciences University''' in 1981 and took its current name in 2001, as part of a merger with the Oregon Graduate Institute (OGI), in Hillsboro.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/#/0|title=The Oregonian|last=Carter|first=Steven|date=Feb 23, 2001|work=Capitol roundup Senate panel OKs bill to allow merger of OHSU, Institute. The Oregonian}}</ref> The university has several partnership programs including a joint PharmD Pharmacy program with Oregon State University in Corvallis.

It is designated as a "Special Focus – Research Institution" according to the Carnegie Classification.

==History== The Willamette University School of Medicine, OHSU's earliest predecessor, was founded in the 1860s in Salem, and was relocated to Portland in the 1870s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ohsu.edu/about/history.html|title=OHSU: An historical chronology}}</ref> In 1915, Willamette University and the University of Oregon 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 in Southwest Portland. The Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Company donated {{convert|20|acre|ha}} and C.S. "Sam" Jackson, publisher of the now-defunct ''Oregon Journal'' donated the remaining {{convert|88|acre|ha}} to the school two years prior to the move after the property had been deemed unsuitable for the construction of a railroad yard.<ref>{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/about/facts/history.cfm|publisher=Oregon Health & Science University|access-date=28 April 2013}}</ref>

Over the next forty years, the school diversified its educational offerings to include nursing and dental programs,<ref>{{cite news|last=Smith|first=Virgil|title=Dental School Goal Finally Reached|newspaper=The Oregonian|date=June 17, 1945|page=50}}</ref> and expanded with facilities built during this time on Marquam Hill, including the Multnomah County Hospital, the Doernbecher Children's Hospital, and an outpatient clinic.

In 1955, Oregon state senator Mark Hatfield co-sponsored a bill to extend the medical school with a teaching hospital, and in 1974 the State of Oregon merged the institutions located on Marquam Hill into the University Hospital independent of the University of Oregon. 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sen. Mark O. Hatfield Information Wall|url=http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/about/news_events/news/2011/hatfield-wall.cfm|publisher=Oregon Health & Science University|access-date=28 April 2013}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Executive Order No. 08-12|url=http://www.oregon.gov/gov/docs/executive_orders/eo0812.pdf|publisher=Office of the Governor. State of Oregon|date=May 23, 2008|access-date=28 April 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012104501/http://www.oregon.gov/Gov/docs/executive_orders/eo0812.pdf|archive-date=12 October 2012}}</ref>

The Oregon Graduate Institute merged with OHSU in July 2001, with OGI becoming the OGI School of Science and Engineering, 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.<ref>T. Cettina, "The Best of Both Worlds," ''Oregon Business'' (Dec 2000) p 22-25.</ref>thumb|The main OHSU campus sits atop Marquam Hill On October 29, 2008, OHSU announced its largest philanthropic gift up that time: a $100 million gift from Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny Knight. The gift went to the OHSU Cancer Institute, renaming it the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute.<ref>{{cite news|last=Korn|first=Peter|title=Knights' $100 million gift boosts OHSU cancer fight|date=October 29, 2008|newspaper=Portland Tribune|url=http://thetribonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=122530766526944700|access-date=April 25, 2013|archive-date=January 10, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200110130321/http://thetribonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=122530766526944700|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news|title=Phil and Penny Knight to OHSU: $500 million is yours for cancer research if you can match it|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/09/phil_and_penny_knight_to_ohsu_1.html|newspaper=The Oregonian|access-date=October 1, 2013|date=September 21, 2013}}</ref> The challenge motivated Columbia Sportswear chairwoman Gert Boyle to donate $100 million in 2014.<ref name="oreg-2014aug29">{{cite news|last=Budnick|first=Nick|title=The story behind Gert Boyle's $100-million gift for cancer research at Oregon Health & Science University|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2014/08/the_story_behind_gert_boyles_1.html|access-date=December 28, 2015|publisher=The Oregonian via OregonLive.com|date=August 29, 2014}}</ref> 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.<ref name="ABC Knight challenge">{{cite news|title=Knight Challenge Nets Oregon Health & Science University $1B for Cancer Research|url=https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/nike-founder-ohsu-raise-1b-cancer-research-32019274|access-date=December 28, 2015|publisher=ABC News|date=June 25, 2015}}</ref>

OHSU remained Oregon's only medical school until 2011, when College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Northwest opened in Lebanon, Oregon.<ref>{{cite news|last=Nelson|first=Kristina|url=http://www.kval.com/news/local/126463178.html|title=Oregon's first new medical school in 100 years opens in Lebanon|date=July 30, 2011|newspaper=KVAL News|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141220055957/http://www.kval.com/news/local/126463178.html|archive-date=2014-12-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2015/02/oregons_other_medical_school_p.html|title=Oregon's 'other medical school' graduates its first 100 doctors this spring|agency=Associated Press|date=2015-02-14|website=oregonlive|language=en|access-date=2020-04-05}}</ref>

The world's first in-vivo use of the Crispr-Cas9 DNA editing tool was conducted in 2020 at the Casey Eye Institute at OHSU. The procedure is intended to reverse a genetic mutation causing Leber congenital amaurosis, a form of inherited blindness.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/mar/04/doctors-use-gene-editing-tool-crispr-inside-body-for-first-time|title=Doctors use gene editing tool Crispr inside body for first time|agency=Associated Press|work=The Guardian|date=March 4, 2020|access-date=March 5, 2020}}</ref>

OHSU explored an integration with Legacy Health to create a combined health system in August 2023. The acquisition was called off in 2025.<ref>{{cite news |title=OHSU drops plan to acquire Legacy Health |url=https://www.opb.org/article/2025/05/05/ohsu-legacy-merger/ |work=opb |language=en}}</ref>

On October 24, 2024, president Danny Jacobs announced that he would resign from being president of OHSU for personal reasons.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kotek says rush to replace OHSU president ‘compromises the future of the institution’ |url=https://www.opb.org/article/2024/10/24/ohsu-oregon-health-science-university-president-danny-jacobs-resigns/ |access-date=2025-08-15 |website=opb |language=en}}</ref>

On August 11, 2025, Shereef Elnahal started as the president of OHSU, replacing former president, Danny Jacobs, and the interim president, Steve Stadum.<ref name="president2025"></ref>

On August 14, 2025, Phil Knight and his wife, Penny Knight, announced their pledge a $2 billion gift to the university. OHSU claims this be the largest single gift to a U.S. university, which surpasses the $1.8 billion given by Michael Bloomberg to Johns Hopkins University in 2018. The gift will help with "psychological, genetic and financial counseling, symptom management, nutritional support and survivorship care" for patients and families affected by cancer.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-08-14 |title=Nike co-founder Phil Knight and wife pledge record $2B to Oregon cancer center, university says |url=https://apnews.com/article/ohsu-cancer-research-phil-knight-318e574ec91487e45218d6f996a23bf4 |access-date=2025-08-15 |website=AP News |language=en}}</ref>

=== Animal welfare violations === The United States Department of Agriculture 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/be8c8164769a93a9956a6184fd752e91|title=University lab cited for animal welfare violations in Oregon|date=2020-02-22|website=AP NEWS|access-date=2020-03-18}}</ref> These violations bring the number of serious violations at the university's animal lab to nine since 2014.<ref name=violations>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/02/voles-die-of-thirst-ohsu-lab-cited-for-animal-welfare-violations.html |title=Voles die of thirst, OHSU lab cited for animal welfare violations|last1=Fedor |first1=Zarkhin |first2=Kale |last2=Williams |publisher=The Oregonian |date=February 22, 2020 |website=oregonlive|language=en|access-date=2020-03-18}}</ref>

==Campuses== {{see also|Oregon Health & Science University Hospital}} The main campus, located on Marquam Hill (colloquially known as "Pill Hill") in the southwest neighborhood of Homestead, is home to the university's medical school as well as two associated hospitals. The Oregon Health & Science University Hospital is a Level I trauma center and general hospital; Doernbecher Children's Hospital is a children's hospital 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 Portland metropolitan area.thumb|Physicians Pavilion at Marquam Hill campus

A third hospital, the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.va.gov/portland/index.asp |title=Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center |access-date=2006-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060925125951/http://www.va.gov/portland/index.asp |archive-date=2006-09-25 |url-status=dead }}</ref> is located next to the main OHSU campus; this hospital is run by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and is outside the auspices of OHSU. A {{convert|660|ft|m}} pedestrian skybridge connecting OHSU Hospital and the VA Medical Center was constructed in 1992.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.inicigroup.com/project.php?id=104 | title = VA Skybridge | publisher = inici Group | access-date = July 23, 2014}}</ref> 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.<ref>L. Hammill, "[http://www.oregonlive.com/hillsboro/index.ssf/2015/04/ogi_campus_having_plummeted_in.html OGI campus, after plummeting in value since 2006 OHSU deal, sells for $15 million]," ''The Oregonian'' (29 Apr 2015).</ref> This campus specialized in graduate-level science and engineering education and is located in the heart of Oregon's Silicon Forest. Since 1998, the university has controlled the Oregon National Primate Research Center, located adjacent to OGI in Hillsboro.thumb|Center for Health and Healing at the South Waterfront campusWith 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 Willamette River in the South Portland neighborhood to the east of Marquam Hill and south of the city center. The Center for Health & Healing earned LEED Platinum 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,<ref> {{cite web | url = http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/about/vision/collaborative-science-building.cfm | archive-url = https://archive.today/20140726175823/http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/about/vision/collaborative-science-building.cfm | url-status = dead | archive-date = July 26, 2014 | title = Collaborative Life Sciences Building | publisher = Oregon Health & Science University | access-date = Jul 23, 2014 }} </ref> and houses OHSU School of Dentistry and Dental Clinics, Portland State University classes and Oregon State University's Doctor of Pharmacy program.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/about/vision/clsb-partners.cfm | title = The CLSB partners | publisher = Oregon Health & Science University | access-date = July 23, 2014}}</ref> In April, 2018, CLSB was renamed to the Joseph E. Robertson, Jr. Collaborative Life Sciences Building (RLSB).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.ohsu.edu/2018/04/06/south-waterfront-building-renamed-in-honor-of-dr-joe-robertson|title=South Waterfront building renamed in honor of Dr. Joe Robertson|last=Hargens-Bradley|first=Tamara|website=OHSU News|language=en|access-date=2019-10-17}}</ref> As existing surface streets were deemed insufficient to connect the South Waterfront campus to the Marquam Hill campus, the Portland Aerial Tram was built as the primary link between them and opened December 1, 2006. Controversy surrounded the costs of the tram,<ref>{{cite news | last = Murphy | first = Todd | title = Nice tram, who pays? | newspaper = Portland Tribune | date = October 11, 2002 | url = http://thetribonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=14099 | access-date = April 25, 2013}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web | title = Portland Aerial Tram FAQ | publisher = Oregon Health & Science University | url = http://www.portlandtram.org/faq.htm | access-date = 2008-01-03}}</ref> On January 8, 2008, OHSU announced that it will establish a research institute at the Florida Center for Innovation at Tradition in the Tradition community in Port St. Lucie, Florida.<ref>{{cite news | last = Ottolenghi | first = Hugo | title = Oregon university to build research center in PSL, create 200 jobs for $117.9 million incentive | publisher = Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers | date = January 8, 2008 | url = http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/jan/08/oregon-university-build-research-center-psl/ | archive-date = January 12, 2008 | access-date = January 10, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080112161317/http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/jan/08/oregon-university-build-research-center-psl/ | url-status = dead }}</ref> The institute eventually will employ 200 workers. Institute scientists will study infectious diseases of the elderly, AIDS and other infectious diseases and viruses. OHSU will work out of the adjacent Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies until its own center is completed. A $117.9 million financial incentive package from the state of Florida secured OHSU's commitment.{{Citation needed|date=May 2018}}

==Academics== {| class="wikitable floatright sortable collapsible"; text-align:right; font-size:80%;" |+ style="font-size:90%" |Undergraduate demographics as of Fall 2023<ref>{{cite web |title= Oregon Health & Science University|url=https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?209490-Oregon-Health-Science-University|website=College Scorecard |publisher=United States Department of Education |access-date=June 16, 2025 }}</ref> |- ! Race and ethnicity ! colspan="2" data-sort-type=number |Total |- | White |align=right| {{bartable|62|%|2||background:cyan}} |- | Hispanic |align=right| {{bartable|21|%|2||background:green}} |- | Two or more races |align=right| {{bartable|6|%|2||background:violet}} |- | Asian |align=right| {{bartable|6|%|2||background:orange}} |- | Black |align=right| {{bartable|3|%|2||background:purple}} |- | Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander |align=right| {{bartable|1|%|2||background:brown}} |- | International student |align=right| {{bartable|1|%|2||background:#008080}} |- | Unknown |align=right| {{bartable|1|%|2||background:grey}} |- ! colspan="4" data-sort-type=number |Economic diversity |- | Low-income{{efn|The percentage of students who received an income-based federal Pell grant intended for low-income students.}} |align=right| {{bartable|29|%|2||background:red}} |- | Affluent{{efn|The percentage of students who are a part of the American middle class at the bare minimum.}} |align=right| {{bartable|71|%|2||background:black}} |} As of January 2025, OHSU's faculty morale is poor.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Leon |first=Kristine de |date=2025-01-31 |title=OHSU leader acknowledges dismal faculty morale amid fumbled layoffs, budget cuts |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/health/2025/01/ohsu-leader-acknowledges-dismal-faculty-morale-amid-fumbled-layoffs-budget-cuts.html |access-date=2026-01-13 |website=oregonlive |language=en}}</ref> It is ranked at the 196th place in best global universities by ''US News & World Report.''<ref name=":0" />{{Infobox US university ranking | Forbes = | USNWR_NU = | Wamo_NU = | THE_WSJ = | QS_W = | THES_W = 251–300 | USNWR_W = | ARWU_W = 201-300 }}

===School of Medicine=== The OHSU School of Medicine has a faculty of 2,480 and confers a variety of degrees, including Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Science, Master of Physician Assistant Studies, and Master of Public Health.<ref>{{cite web |title=School of Medicine Faculty |url=http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/schools/school-of-medicine/faculty/ |access-date=12 January 2025 |publisher=Oregon Health & Science University}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite magazine | url = https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-medical-schools/oregon-health-and-science-university-04094 | title = Oregon Health and Science University {{!}} Overall Rankings | magazine = U.S. News & World Report | access-date = 2022-06-10 }}</ref> It is one of two medical schools in Oregon, and the only awarding a Doctor of Medicine degree. As of January 2026, 82% of the students are from in-state. The school receives over 6,000 applications and interviewing 543 applicants and accepting about 230. The average GPA of the entering class is 3.66 with a median MCAT score of 509.<ref>{{cite web |title=Admissions {{!}} OHSU MD Program |url=http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/schools/school-of-medicine/academic-programs/md-program/admissions/index.cfm |access-date=2026-01-12 |publisher=Oregon Health & Science University}}</ref> Its Physician Assistant program was ranked 21st as of January 2026 by ''U.S. News & World Report''.<ref name=":0">{{cite magazine |date= |title=Physician Assistant Rankings |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/oregon-health-and-science-university-209490/overall-rankings |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=2026-01-12 |magazine=U.S. News & World Report}}</ref>

===School of Dentistry=== OHSU's School of Dentistry was merged into the university in 1945.<ref name="ohsu history">{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/about/facts/history.cfm|work=About|publisher=Oregon Health & Science University|access-date=26 December 2011}}</ref> Accredited through the Commission on Dental Accreditation, 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Our New Home Fall of 2014|url=http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/schools/school-of-dentistry/new-building.cfm|work=School of Dentistry|publisher=Oregon Health & Science University|access-date=26 May 2012}}</ref>

===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 36th overall in the nation by the ''U.S. News & World Report''.<ref>{{cite magazine |date= |title=Nursing School Rankings |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-nursing-schools/oregon-health-and-science-university-33231 |access-date=2026-01-12 |magazine=U.S. News & World Report}}</ref>

==OHSU Foundation== The Oregon Health & Science University Foundation<ref>{{Cite web |title=OHSU Foundation: Helping Create a Healthier World |url=https://ohsufoundation.org/ |access-date=2022-06-14 |website=OHSU Foundation |language=en-US}}</ref> is a 501(c)(3) organization that exists to advance OHSU's mission through philanthropy. The Doernbecher Children's Hospital Foundation<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fundraising for OHSU |url=https://ohsufoundation.org/community-programs/ |access-date=2022-06-14 |website=OHSU Foundation |language=en-US}}</ref> merged with the OHSU Foundation in 2021.

==Controversies== ===Aerial tram=== {{Main|Portland Aerial Tram}}

thumb|Portland Aerial Tram from Marquam Hill

In 2001, OHSU purchased property in what is now known as the South Waterfront 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 aerial tram. 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 traffic congestion on Marquam Hill as OHSU claimed, and that the project inappropriately made use of public right of way for private purposes.<ref>{{cite web|title=About the Tram |url=http://www.notram.org/faq.htm |publisher=No Tram to OHSU |access-date=28 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010714212825/http://www.notram.org/faq.htm |archive-date=July 14, 2001 |date=January 19, 2001 |url-status=dead }}</ref> During the construction phase, the project came under additional public scrutiny amid rising construction and operation costs.<ref>{{cite web|title=Tram ride could set you back $4|url=http://www.katu.com/news/5138496.html|publisher=KATU.com|author-first1=Brian |author-last1=Barker |author2=KATU Web Staff |date=January 9, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622075146/http://www.katu.com/news/5138496.html|archive-date=June 22, 2011|access-date= April 2, 2018}}</ref> 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 PETA brought attention to OHSU research involving sheep.<ref>{{cite web | title = Oregon gay sheep experiment challenged by tennis champ | publisher = Associated Press | work = KGW.com | date = November 5, 2006 | url = http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/110506cckkKGWgaysheep.9cf26ed.html | access-date = 2008-01-03 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071224090832/http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/110506cckkKGWgaysheep.9cf26ed.html  |archive-date = 2007-12-24}}</ref> The research, which was being conducted in conjunction with Oregon State University was designed to understand the biological mechanisms involved in sexual partner preference.<ref>{{cite news | first = Sandi | last = Doughton | title = Born gay? How biology may drive orientation | newspaper = The Seattle Times | date = June 19, 2005 | url = https://seattletimes.com/seattle-news/born-gay-how-biology-may-drive-orientation/ | access-date = 2025-05-03 }}</ref>

==Notable alumni and faculty==   * Esther Choo, emergency physician and president of the Academy of Women in Academic Emergency Medicine<ref>{{Cite web|title=Interview with Esther Choo: "You can advocate as a 'regular person' doctor"|url=https://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/schools/school-of-medicine/news-and-events/radu-esther-choo-interview.cfm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/8239/20181122185455/https://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/schools/school-of-medicine/news-and-events/radu-esther-choo-interview.cfm|archive-date=2018-11-22|access-date=2020-06-08|website=Oregon Health & Science University|language=en}}</ref> * Mustafa Culha, chemistry professor and research group founder<ref>{{cite web |title=Advances in Translational Nanotechnology: Challenges and Opportunities |url=https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10177447 |website=par.nsf.gov |publisher=MDPI Applied Sciences |access-date=22 July 2023 |date=2020}}</ref> * Brian Druker, physician and co-developer of Gleevec and director of the Knight Cancer Institute * John Epley, physician and developer of the Epley maneuver * Suzanne Fei, computational biologist, Bioinformatics & Biostatistics Core Director<ref>{{cite interview |access-date=2019-07-29 |url= https://www.mormonwomen.com/interview/coded-in-the-dna/ |title= Coded in the DNA |work= Mormon Women Project |interviewer-last1=Peterson|interviewer-first1= Kathryn |subject-last1=Fei|subject-first1=Suzi|date=2013-10-04}}</ref> * Catherine G Galbraith, expert in cell migration and super-resolution microscopy * N. Gregory Hamilton, psychiatrist * Matthew Keeslar, physician assistant instructor of urology, School of Medicine; former professional actor (''Waiting for Guffman'', ''Scream 3'', ''Frank Herbert's Dune'') * Lena Kenin, OB/GYN and psychiatrist * John Kitzhaber, physician and longest-serving governor in Oregon's history<ref>{{cite news|last1=Nakamura|first1=Beth|title=Governor John Kitzhaber announces his resignation|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/02/governor_john_kitzhaber_will_s.html|newspaper=The Oregonian|access-date=February 13, 2015}}</ref> * Muriel Lezak, neuropsychologist and author * Owen McCarty, Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering * Bita Moghaddam, Ruth Matarazzo Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, author * Bud Pierce, physician and politician<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.wweek.com/news/2016/09/21/5-things-you-didnt-know-about-bud-pierce/|title=5 Things You Didn't Know About Bud Pierce – The GOP nominee for governor just yanked his endorsement of Trump|author-last1=Jaquiss|author-first1= Nigel|newspaper=Willamette Week|date=September 20, 2016|access-date=October 2, 2016}}</ref> * Lendon Smith, OB/GYN, pediatrician, author, and television personality * Albert Starr, first surgeon to implant a heart valve successfully * Kent L. Thornburg, scientist, researcher, professor<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ohsu.edu/people/kent-l-thornburg-phd|title=Kent L. Thornburg Ph.D. | OHSU People | OHSU|website=www.ohsu.edu}}</ref> * Shoshana R. Ungerleider, Internal Medicine Physician, film producer<ref>{{Cite web|title=Women Who Inspire Us: Shoshana Ungerleider|url=https://www.ohsu.edu/womens-health/women-who-inspire-us-shoshana-ungerleider|access-date=2020-08-08|website=Oregon Health & Science University|language=en}}</ref> * Melissa Wong, cancer stem cell biologist * D. George Wyse, expert in cardiac arrhythmias

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==External links== {{Wikisource|Oregon Constitution/Article XI-L}} * {{Commons category-inline|Oregon Health & Science University}} * [http://www.ohsu.edu/ Official website]

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