High-ranking OHSU doctor sexually assaulted woman in elevator, jury finds in $1M verdict

Portland, Oregon (February 2025) — A researcher from Oregon Health & Science University's upper ranks grabbed the crotch of another employee while they were riding an elevator together in 2018, a jury found. In a 9-3 vote, the Multnomah County jury awarded $1 million in damages to Amy Koski after finding Dr. Andras Gruber liable for sexual assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Gruber, a former biomedical engineering professor at the university, worked across the hall from Koski at the South Waterfront campus when the two went out for pizza on May 4, 2018.

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