Dr. Leandro Brito receives Early Clinical Investigator Award

Dr. Leandro Brito received an Early Clinical Investigator Award from the Medical Research Foundation of Oregon, which supports medical exploration and the development of research in clinical...

OHWC’s FY22 report is out!

Happy Thanksgiving Week to our readers! We at the Oregon Healthy Workforce Center (OHWC) are excited to announce our FY22 annual report. In this report, we highlight OHWC research, outreach,...

Sleep technology podcast episode

In our latest podcast episode, we chat with Dr. Miranda Lim, a neurologist with board certification in Sleep Medicine. Miranda Lim, M.D., Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in Neurology with secondary...

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Dr. Saurabh Thosar receives $2.97 million R01 NIH grant

Dr. Saurabh Thosar, Assistant Professor at the Institute and colleagues was awarded a 5 year $2.97 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the effects of sleep and the...

What's Work Got To Do With It? Podcast Meet the Scientist in safety, health and well-being at work

Year three of our podcast

We are excited to move into the 3rd year of our podcast, What's Work Got To Do With It? Every year we publish 6 to 10 podcast episodes a year where we dig into some of the science behind the...

Dr. Miranda Lim investigates new device to enhance sleep

Note: Group photo pre-pandemic We are eager to follow recent news about Miranda Lim, MD, Ph.D., sleep scientist here at OHSU, on her work collaborating with other researchers to develop a new...

Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences Research Staff Spotlight: LaTroy Robinson

Research Staff Spotlight: LaTroy Robinson

Each month, we feature an Institute staff member and share with the community a behind-the-scenes through a question and answer session to learn more about their research areas, career path and...

Sleep study finds why asthma worsens at night

In the U.S., over 20 million people report experiencing worsening asthma severity at night. Throughout the years, scientists have asked whether it was “simply because of sleep at night or whether...

OHWC gets renewed for 5 more years!

The Oregon Healthy Workforce Center (OHWC) is celebrating! Led by Co-Directors Leslie Hammer, PhD and Ryan Olson, PhD, and founded in 2011 by Kent Anger, PhD,  our center has been successfully...