Balancing education research and scholarship with our clinical, teaching, and administrative work is challenging. The publishing pipeline (Furtak, 2021) is a practical to [...]

The sixth issue of the OHSU School of Dentistry Anthology, or SODA, celebrates the intellectual rigor, clinical curiosity and scientific contributions of our dental re [...]

This work summarizes a doctoral research project on the role of extracellular vesicles (EVs) in the rare disease Niemann Pick Disease Type C (NPC). It established miRNA e [...]

Molecular phenotypes, or subtypes, can describe cancer as distinct diseases within primary tissues-of-origin. Machine learning (ML) can be applied to this molecular taxon [...]

This report on programmatic assessment at OHSU summarizes the work of the last academic year 2022-2023.

This report on programmatic assessment at OHSU summarizes the work of the last academic year 2023-2024.

This thesis examines MR1T cells and gamma-delta T cells in early life and how they are shaped by BCG vaccination with the goal of informing how they might be positioned f [...]

Adolescent social isolation is a developmental stressor that increases vulnerability to neuropsychiatric disorders including substance use disorder and eating disorders. [...]

Electronic health records (EHRs) provide a voluminous amount of data for research. However, potential biases threaten the internal and external validity of observational [...]

My research investigates how components of the contact activation system regulate endothelial function. First, I characterized the molecular mechanism of prekallikrein (P [...]