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Brian Schill

Erin Hendrickson is a purchasing assistant in the UND Department of Biomedical Sciences. She graduated from the North Dakota State College of Science in Wahpeton and spent over thirty years working in the dental field and five years in an elementary school before joining UND. As a purchasing assistant, Erin facilitates equipment purchases, equipment maintenance […]

Luke Hauge is an information specialist associate at the Rural Health Information Hub (RHIhub), in the UND Center for Rural Health, where they write and maintain topic and state guides, add new resources, and provide customized assistance through RHIhub’s Resource and Referral Service. Originally from Fargo, Luke has lived in several parts of Minnesota as […]

This past Wednesday the School celebrated the outstanding achievements of several students in the medical student Class of 2026 during the annual Sophomore Awards ceremony, held in the Charles H. Fee, MD Auditorium in the SMHS building in Grand Forks. The ceremony also marks the transition of the medical students to the clinical component of […]

The UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences Faculty Assembly has been set for 3 p.m. (CST) on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. At the Assembly, Dr. Joshua Wynne, UND’s vice president for Health Affairs and dean of the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, will present the “State of the School Address.” Dr. Donald Jurivich, […]

Did you know that publications by SMHS faculty, staff, and students are the most popular college-level collection on UND’s institutional repository? For the fourth year running the School’s collected research works have beat out any other college to be the “most popular” UND-affiliated papers with readers worldwide, reaching 936,334 total downloads by Dec. 19, 2023, […]

Shannan Stanke is a resource facilitator with the Center for Rural Health at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences in Grand Forks. Shannan’s main responsibilities include working with the North Dakota Brain Injury Network to provide resources and assistance to brain injury survivors and caregivers. Her focus will be serving […]

For the next Neurology Grand Rounds, from 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 18, Scott Belliston, D.O., will discuss progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy. The meeting will be held in person at the Brain & Spine Clinic, 2301 25th St. S. in Fargo, Conf. Rm. 1 and Room SMCF1A1, and via Webex (Meeting no./access code: […]

The next UND Department of Internal Medicine Grand Rounds event, “Sickle Cell Disease,” will be broadcast via Zoom from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. This presentation features Julia Parrish, M.D., a second-year fellow in the School’s Sanford Health-based Hematology and Oncology Fellowship Program in Fargo, N.D. Upon completion of this program, […]

Nicola Herting, Ph.D., LP, will present “Responding to Child Trauma” from 12:10 p.m. to 1:10 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 17. This broadcast will be held via Zoom/video conference. Dr. Herting is clinical director of the Traumatic Stress Treatment Center at Sanford Health in Fargo; clinical director of the Treatment Collaborative for Traumatized Youth and adjunct […]

Stephanie Weber is a project assistant with the Center for Rural Health (CRH) at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences in Grand Forks. Stephanie works with the Rural Health Information Hub where she provides administrative and project support. Originally from East Grand Forks, Minn., Stephanie has provided administrative support and assistance […]

As we welcome 2024 and students return to their studies, I thought it might be productive to outline some of the School’s priorities and areas of focus in this new year. Recall that UND, like most academic institutions, operates on an academic and fiscal year that runs from July to June, in contrast to the […]

The laboratory of Sergei Nechaev, Ph.D., associate professor with the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences, has published a paper in the prestigious Nature Communications journal. The manuscript, “Transcriptional Responses of Cancer Cells to Heat Shock-Inducing Stimuli Involve Amplification of Robust HSF1 Binding,” can be read online here. […]

There are a number of ways AI can be used – and misused – in education and in research. Please join us for our January UND SMHS TLAS virtual faculty development event: “Using AI (Artificial Intelligence) at the SMHS.” On Jan. 17, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. (CST), speakers Andrea Guthridge (Instructional Designer, Education Resources), […]

The Office of the Dean is pleased to announce a welcome reception for the new UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Dr. Victoria Haynes. Come and say hello to Dr. Haynes in the School’s West Atrium from 4 to 4:30 p.m. on Monday, March 18. Light refreshments […]

Mark your calendars for a day of awareness and learning! The Department of Rehabilitation & Human Services within UND’s College of Education & Human Development is hosting Disability Awareness Day on Monday, March 18. Join the college as it promotes the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities. The event features a learning fair, posters […]