17, 2007, and its ten millionth rider on january 8, 2014. peta in 2006, the animal rights group peta brought attention to ohsu research involving sheep. the research, which was being conducted in conjunction with oregon state university was designed to understand the biological mechanisms involved in sexual partner preference. notable alumni and faculty shoshana r. ungerleider, internal medicine physician, film producer esther choo, emergency physician, president of the academy of women in academic emergency medicine brian druker, physician, co-developer of gleevec and director of the knight cancer institute suzanne fei, computational biologist, bioinformatics & biostatistics core director n. gregory hamilton, psychiatrist matthew keeslar, physician assistant instructor of urology, school of medicine. former professional actor (waiting for guffman, scream 3, frank herbert's dune) john kitzhaber, physician, longest-serving governor in oregon's history muriel lezak, american neuropsychologist and author bud pierce, physician and politician lendon smith, ob/gyn, pediatrician, author, and television personality d. george wyse, expert in cardiac arrhythmias marc freeman, director of the vollum institute owen mccarty, chair of the department of biomedical engineering melissa wong, cancer stem cell biologist