May 8th & 9th 2008
Welcome to the website for the OHSU Student Research Forum!
The Student Research Forum (SRF) is a celebration of student research in all OHSU schools and disciplines. This year’s forum will host Dr. Susana Martinez-Conde as the keynote speaker, 70 student research oral presentations, and a large cross disciplinary poster reception. The event will also be a teaching and outreach opportunity, as high school students and undergraduates from across the Portland area will be attending. All research presentations and Dr. Martinez-Conde’s keynote address will take place in the OHSU Old Library, and a closing awards gala will be held for all participants and their mentors on the evening of May 9th in the Center for Health and Healing atrium.
We invite students from SON, SOD, SOM, and OGI to present research from any research field from engineering or policy design to genetics or symptom management! The oral presentations will be centered on 14 health and research themes that encompass a range of research priorities at OHSU. There will also be one all-inclusive poster reception the evening of May 8th, following an address by OHSU's president, Joe Robertson. The goal of these sessions is to bring together OHSU students with diverse expertise to present and discuss recent discoveries, studies, tools, and medical advances on their topics of interest.
A $300 first place and $200 second place research award will be given for each oral presentation session. Additional monetary research awards will be given for outstanding poster presentations. These awards are made possible by generous sponsorship by OHSU research institutes. Each oral presentation session has space for only 5 presenters, but the poster session will be unlimited. All sessions will be filled on a first come first serve basis. Please reserve your place by submitting an abstract of your work in progress. Abstracts can be submitted up until the close of registration, April 16, and once submitted may be edited until April 25th.
This year’s research forum will involve more OHSU research disciplines and participates than ever before. This growth is thanks to the financial and moral support of numerous OHSU students, faculty, staff, research institutes, clinical and academic departments, and local businesses and industry. We are deeply grateful for all who support the forum with your time, resources, and enthusiasm! If you would like to, it is not too late to get involved. We meet the 1st Thursday of each month. Please contact us for more information!
We hope to see many OHSU staff, faculty, students, and administration at the 25th Annual OHSU Student Research Forum. Please take a moment to register for the forum, and join us May 8-9th.
See you there!
Brenda Marsh & Brenda Polster
Co-chairs 2008 OHSU SRF