The postdoctoral fellowship focuses on neuropsychological evaluation in children with complex medical and co-occurring developmental issues (e.g., oncology, traumatic brain injury, genetic conditions, epilepsy) within the CDRC and within specialty medical clinics. These populations present with a wide range of neurological dysfunction and cognitive difficulties including problems in the areas of attention, executive functioning, memory, visuospatial reasoning, language functioning, sensory/motor functioning, and social/emotional/behavioral adjustment that afford fellows with broad-based training. Core assessment duties involve providing differential diagnosis, writing integrated reports, and providing...

Leadership - Identifies, recommends, and leads infection prevention and control (IPC) improvement opportunities in assigned areas through surveillance, research, and statistical analysis of internal and external data sources. - Acts as a liaison to assigned area(s) to promote evidence-based, patient-centered IPC practices. Recommends evidence-based infection prevention measures and assists with their implementation. -

Customer Service: - Provide the highest level of customer service to both external customers (patients and their families, referring providers, insurance carriers, etc.) and internal customers (OHSU health care providers and staff) that meets or exceeds the service standards of the health care industry. This duty includes prompt and professional communication efforts, face-to-face customer contact skills, crisis management, facility with available information technology, standard complaint processing, flexible coverage of internal service needs and the continuous application of process improvement methods and...

- Supervises front office staff and provides daily guidance in problem solving. Monitors successful completion of competencies, makes recommendations for salary increases, approved and assigns, and PAS work. Works as back up for all front office and clinical staff and its functions. Works in concert with Practice Manager to recruit, train, and counsel employees, develop work plans, participate in discipline up to and including dismissal. Participates in evaluations and setting long and short term goals for front office staff. Enters and monitors staff schedules in Kronos timekeeping. Encourages a cohesive team approach to the...

Key Responsibilities & Performance Standards   Patient Services: - Advocates for patients and families: - Engages Hispanic/Latino cancer patients and families at the time of referral to the cancer center and makes them aware of information, resources, support programs and services. - Assumes advocate role on patient’s behalf to ensure receipt of timely and...

Psychosocial Assessment: - Conducts psychosocial evaluations of patients/support person(s) to identify needs and areas of support, including but not limited to: adjustment to cancer diagnosis, care coordination, mental health status, barriers to treatment process, substance use, child or elder abuse/neglect, intimate partner violence concerns, financial concerns, and resource needs. - The OCSW may participate in treatment team meetings or care conferences as the behavioral health clinician to support...

- Maintains, modifies and updates the trauma registry software(s). Programs new data points as needed, designs and initiates new rules within the software to facilitate data entry and retrieval, creates chalkboards with appropriate rules. Understands complex interaction of data fields. - Designs and runs reports to facilitate performance improvement. Monitors trends in production and communicates effectively  - Works with researchers; participates in study design, collects and analyzes data....

Minimum Requirements: MD or foreign equivalent and valid Oregon Medical License. Experience with animal care and handling, anesthesia, animal surgery, pre- and post-procedural management. Please email resume or CV to Allison Porter porteral@ohsu.edu.

- Process refill authorization requests for assigned ambulatory clinics. Review for accuracy and apply appropriate authorization protocols.  - Identify valid requests and triage appropriately to pharmacist or provider for review.  - Document the receipt, status and outcome of authorization requests in the electronic medical record.  - Provide applicable documentation for...

Provides a Safe Therapeutic Environment - Ensures the safety and welfare of patients/clients, family/caregivers and fellow employees. - Utilizes proper posture and sound body mechanics and principles for safe patient handling. - Maintains general good physical and mental health and self-care in order not to jeopardize the health and safety of self and others in the workplace. - Maintains a...

This position is under the overall supervision of the Department Chair and Vice Chair of Anatomic Pathology. The appointee shall provide services, as assigned by the supervisor, in furtherance of the university’s missions and goals of teaching, research, patient care, outreach and public service.   This position reports to (supervisor): GUANG FAN, MD, PHD, CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   This position will be assigned to the Anatomic Pathology Division, with principal responsibilities in Cytopathology, which operates under a subspecialty sign out model. The responsibilities include the clinical service and teaching functions of the sections,...

Teaching trainees, medical students and support staff in accordance with assignments by the Chair. Teaching is done through assigned lectures to be given during the course of the year and through teaching in the course of performing their own job by modeling best practices, mentoring trainees and guiding learning through delegating graduated and focused levels of responsibility. Appointee shall establish and maintain a program of scholarly activities directed toward improving understanding of the causes, detection and treatment of diseases. The appointee shall have a demonstrated competence in teaching. This position also contributes to the administration of the department as assigned by the Chair; specifically, by helping select residents and participating in...

Teaching trainees, medical students and support staff in accordance with assignments by the Chair. Teaching is done through assigned lectures to be given during the course of the year and through teaching in the course of performing their own job by modeling best practices, mentoring trainees and guiding learning through delegating graduated and focused levels of responsibility. Appointee shall establish and maintain a program of scholarly activities directed toward improving understanding of the causes, detection and treatment of diseases. The appointee shall have a demonstrated competence in teaching. This position also contributes to the administration of the department as assigned by the Chair; specifically, by helping select residents and participating in...

Floor Care and High-Level Vacuuming: - Maintains carpets by vacuuming, spot cleaning, and performing light and heavy carpet extraction; maintains hard-surface floors by sweeping, spot mopping, mopping, stripping, waxing, buffing and refurbishing; uses chemical cleaners, strippers, and waxes; performs high-level vacuuming of vents, ceilings, fixtures, and ledges. Cleaning and Sanitizing: - Cleans and sanitizes all...

Instrument Processing: - Performs testing in all sections of OHSU Community Oncology Laboratory with accuracy, speed and efficiency using Sysmex XN 1000, Beckman Coulter AU 480, Beckman Coulter Access, Abbott Piccolo Express, Microscope. Follows all written procedures, policies, and guidelines.  Sample Preparation: - Prepares patient samples for testing. Determines acceptability of...

- Coordinates complex transfers of acutely ill patients to OHSU/DCH from outside hospitals. Collect accurate patient information, initiates EPIC intake, conducts initial cursory triage for possible transfer to partner hospitals, page appropriate OHSU physician(s), and connect referring  provider to OHSU providers on a recorded telephone line and/or telemedicine link. ETC is responsible for scribing key information discussed in call, activating specialty teams, and disseminating information to clinical staff. This position collaborates with the bed flow manager, physician on duty, transfer center RN, and patient placement to secure appropriate bed placement for transfer patients. -

Instrument Processing: - Performs testing in all sections of OHSU Community Oncology Laboratory with accuracy, speed and efficiency using Sysmex XN 1000, Beckman Coulter AU 480, Beckman Coulter Access, Abbott Piccolo Express, Microscope. Follows all written procedures, policies, and guidelines.  Sample Preparation: - Prepares patient samples for testing. Determines acceptability of...

Conduct medical and vision evaluations of patients at Casey Eye Institute.  Duties include providing routine eye examinations,  prescribing glasses and performing related eye care services.   Documents patient findings in the medical record per OHSU and CEI procedures and guidelines and communicates findings and recommendations to ophthalmologists.    Serves as a resource for technician staff regarding patient refractive care and...

This position is under the supervision of the Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology.  The duties of this position are in support of the missions, goals and objectives of OHSU and the School of Medicine and include: teaching medical students, house staff, paramedical personnel and the regional medical community; providing clinical care to patients of the University Hospital and Clinics, and affiliated hospitals and clinics; engaging in public service through consultative activities with non-university groups as approved by the Department Chair.  Specific duties include caring for comprehensive ophthalmology patients and providing staffing to residents who care for such patients. ...

Key Responsibilities & Performance Standards - Patient management - Responsible for coordinating and managing the non-nurse aspects of the patient's care process.  Work with the PAS Staff to schedule tests, diagnostic procedures, and admissions according to protocol, nurse coordinator and/or physician request with high level of accuracy. - Answer the nursing lines, screen and deliver all messages in a timely fashion.  Involves removing non-nursing messages and personally handling those, and also making sure that each message the Nurse...