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Health Care for all Oregon
09/25/2016
Cliff Goldman & Larry Steward

Presentation by Cliff Goldman & Larry Steward. We are a coalition of organizations who are fighting for comprehensive, equitable, publicly funded, healthcare. Every year 600 people in Oregon die, and another 8,000 suffer financial ruin all because they lack access to affordable care. We agree with the 77% of Oregonians who believe health care is a human right.

Age-Related Clonal Hematopoiesis
09/11/2016
Jeff Tyner & Kim-Hien Dao

As we age, a stunning proportion of us develop clonal expansion of pre-leukemic cells in our blood and bone marrow. Drs. Jeff Tyner and Kim-Hien Dao explore this phenomenon and its implications for our understanding of malignancy, cancer therapies, and aging. Dr. Tyner is assistant professor of cell and developmental biology at the OHSU School of Medicine and is a member of the Knight Cancer Institute. He received an award from the AAAS for research that identifies cancer-causing mutations and finding drugs that target these mutations. Dr. Dao specializes in hematology and oncology.

What’s In A Plan?
09/04/2016
David DiNucci

We all make and follow plans, like recipes, tax instructions, or computer programs, but traditional forms of plans are not very good for many real-world situations, such as making the most of friends who show up to help carry out the plan, or of “multitasking” by ourselves. Our one-track minds have trouble organizing many things going on at once. David DiNucci has studied how to avoid such problems when employing lots of computers to help speed up big computer programs, and then found that those techniques could be generalized to more common situations. Dr. DiNucci was raised and educated in Portland, has worked for NASA and Lawrence Livermore National Labs, and is now continuing his research. He has served as President of HGP.

Tax Credits and the Working Poor
08/28/2016
Camille McDaniel

Low income tax credits constitute the most powerful antipoverty program in the nation. Yet Oregon has the lowest participation rate among the fifty states. Twenty-five percent of eligible Oregonians do not receive it. Camille McDaniel will discuss access to these credits for working families. Since 2008, Ms. McDaniel has worked for CASH Oregon (Creating Assets, Savings, and Hope) a non-profit committed to improving the financial health of low-income Oregonians and promoting low-income tax credits.

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