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of
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Absorbed by
the Experience
Factory workers
fight for survival
in ‘Skeleton Crew’
Plays worth seeing
at the Oregon
Shakespeare
Festival
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Dr. Danny Jacobs, whose calling to science and community service set him on the path to becoming an esteemed medical researcher, doctor, teacher and administrator,
is the fifth president of Oregon Health and Sciences University (OSHU) and the first African American to lead the medical institution.
Accepting the Challenge
For new OHSU leader, it’s about doing better
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Dr. Danny Jacobs, the first African
American president of Oregon Health
and Sciences University, said he’s
setting in place the steps necessary to
successfully steer the university at the
challenging intersection of education,
by
patient care, and research.
That was a challenge made all too
apparent when, just three weeks into
Jacob’s tenure, a sudden exodus of four
heart transplant cardiologists rendered
Oregon’s lone program for such proce-
dures in limbo.
The Portland Observer reached out
to Jacobs for comment and in response
the university sent a statement an-
nouncing the program was indefinite-
ly suspended after an initial two-week
suspension.
A statement said OSHU officials
would begin an independent peer re-
view of the heart transplant program
in October that will be responsible for
determining the issues that led to the
suspension and according to Jacobs,
“what we need to do better,” including
the quality of patient care, supervision
of the program and staff and their ed-
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