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Congratulations to the four UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences M.D. Class of 2025 students who presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME) in Dallas, Texas (Oct. 14 – 18, 2022). All four students listed below received a $250 student recognition award from the NAME Foundation for […]

Congratulations to Dr. David Velez, chief resident in the UND General Surgery Residency Program, who is one of five physicians from around the nation to have been given the David C. Leach Award from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) for their contribution to graduate medical education. Dr. Velez received this award for […]

The University Police Department (UPD) will hold an Active Shooter Training Course for SMHS students, staff, and faculty from 1 to 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 17 in the School’s Charles H. Fee MD Auditorium (Room E101). At the event, officials from UPD will present information on how to handle an active shooter situation. Contact […]

The UND Department of Internal Medicine wishes all faculty, staff, and students a happy National Internal Medicine Day on Friday, Oct. 28. Thank you for your contributions to the Department of Internal Medicine and the School of Medicine & Health Sciences! Join the American College of Physicians (ACP) in celebrating the essential role of internal […]

Lauren N. (Nikki) Huddle, M.D., clinical assistant professor, and Kevin D. Whaley, M.D., clinical associate professor, with the SMHS Department of Pathology, presented at the 38th Annual Forensic Science Seminar of the Minnesota Coroners’ and Medical Examiners’ Association on Sept 22, 2022. Dr. Huddle presented “A Staged Hanging: Postmortem Suspension of a Homicide Victim,” the […]

In recognition of outstanding performance in the encouragement, enrichment, and education of tomorrow’s physicians, the medical student Class of 2025 has recognized three faculty for Outstanding Unit Instructor Awards in Unit VI and the Class of 2026 has recognized three faculty for Outstanding Unit Instructor Awards in Unit I of the 2022-23 academic year. The […]

The Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (CoBRE) for Host-Pathogen Interactions held its Seventh Annual Host-Pathogen Symposium last week at the Gorecki Alumni Center, and the best poster/presentation results are in! The winners of our Poster Presentation and Data Blitz presentation from the 2022 HPI Symposium are: Poster Presentation Geetika Verma – Post Doc Winner Dawn […]

“The demand for healthcare providers is strong,” said Jeanie McHugo, Ph.D., P.A.-C., chair of the UND Department of Physician Assistant Studies, “and that’s where we can play a pivotal role.” The “we” in question is the physician assistant (PA, or sometimes “physician associate”) profession, which emerged in the 1970s from programs across the country looking […]

The Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) for Host-Pathogen Interactions (HPI) at the University of North Dakota (UND) will hold its seventh annual Host-Pathogen Symposium at the Gorecki Alumni Center on the UND campus Oct. 3-4. The multidisciplinary HPI research team explores how disease-causing microbes or viruses survive and thrive within “host” organisms on a molecular, […]

The Simulation Center’s Simulation in Motion – North Dakota (SIM-ND) team at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences was recently nominated for the Roaming Bison Award, part of North Dakota Gov. Burgum’s Awards for Excellence in Public Service. As the Governor wrote in his letter to the SIM-ND group, “First Lady Kathryn, Lt. […]

The Health Equity Committee, led by UND medical students and residents, invites you to donate to its second annual Fall Homeless Shelter Donation Drive, Oct. 1 to 31. The drive will support Northlands Rescue Mission in Grand Forks and Heart River Bridges of Hope in Fargo. Needed items include: personal hygiene products, common over-the-counter medications, […]

Dr. Leah Thompson, psychiatrist at Southeast Human Service Center in Fargo, N.D., has been named the 2022 namesake preceptor for the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) Preceptor Recognition Student Scholarship Program. The scholarship program, funded by a $100,000 endowment at the UND Alumni Association & Foundation, produces more than $3,000 annually for […]

The Fall 2022 issue of North Dakota Medicine magazine is now available in both online and paper formats. This issue features stories on: Truth and Reconciliation: The health consequences of attending Indigenous boarding schools Good things in small packages: A news scholarship endowment for athletic training students Social Determinants: A new SMHS elective on the social determinants […]

Three UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences faculty recently completed programs that will enhance their leadership at the School. Jeanie McHugo, Ph.D., PA-C, chair of the Department of Physician Assistant Studies, recently completed the process to become a Certified Master of The Leadership Challenge (TLC) via iLead Consulting. Per the information on the TLC […]

A new elective on cultural diversity helps train medical students for the patients many of us don’t see. New physician Dr. Eric Leveille (pronounced “Livia”) admits that he probably didn’t have the recently arrested in mind when, as a first-year medical student, he envisioned tending to patients in need. But there he was last spring, […]