Despite the ongoing pandemic, UND will host a handful of virtual events for Homecoming 2020. Events happening in conjunction with the School of Medicine & Health Sciences include the following, all on Friday, Oct. 9: Continuing Education Symposium: Virtual Care During COVID-19 (see flyer here) Via Zoom (link will be givenRead More

Dr. Leah Thompson will present “Interpretation of Urine Drug Testing” from 12:10 p.m. to 1:10 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020. This presentation will be held via Zoom/video conferencing. Dr. Thompson is a fourth-year resident in the Psychiatry Residency Training Program. Dr. Timothy McManamon, technical director of the General LaboratoryRead More

Kassie Lutz is the new administrative secretary for UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences Southwest Campus in Bismarck, N.D. She will work beside Jodi Rathjen, Deb West, and Susanna Warner in helping our future physicians succeed! Kassie grew up in Burlington, N.D., just North of Minot, and moved to Bismarck in 2008Read More

Are you scrambling to find alternatives to tools and pedagogies you have used in-person with your students? Are you in need of high-quality, intuitive online resources to use with your students? The SMHS Library Resources team is here to help! Take the example of an undergraduate anatomy class: previously, cadaverRead More

In the spring, faculty had to quickly adapt courses to an online format. It can be difficult to use preferred face-to-face teaching strategies in Zoom, and many faculty find themselves stuck in a lecturing rut. But lectures can still thrive with the addition of Active Learning (AL)—even online! Learn howRead More

Diane Hillebrand, grants manager in the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences, has been elected to the position of At-Large Board Member of the National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA). “Over Diane’s nearly 20 years of membership, she has served as Chair of the Professional Development Committee, has Co-chairedRead More

Dr. Grace Karikari is an assistant professor in the Master of Public Health (MPH) program within the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. in public health with a focus on health behavior from the Indiana University – Bloomington School of Public Health. Dr. Karikari hasRead More

The UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences is seeking volunteers to assist in COVID mask distribution to our SMHS students. We are facilitating the distribution of face coverings from outside the main entrance of the UND SMHS on the following dates/times: Tuesday, August 25:  7:45 a.m. – 6 p.m. Wednesday,Read More

Professor Min Wu, Ph.D., along with his postdoctoral fellow in the UND Department of Biomedical Sciences, Ping Lin, Ph.D., has been named an American Association of Immunologists (AAI) “2020 AAI Careers in Immunology Fellow.” The pair are one of this year’s 25 international faculty/postdoc awardee teams to be given theRead More

Mariah Laver Juanto, Ph.D., will present “Verbal De-escalation of Agitated Patients” from 12:10 to 1:10 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020, for the latest UND Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science Grand Rounds event. This presentation will be held via Zoom/Video Conferencing. Dr. Laver Juanto is a psychologist at SanfordRead More

Do you miss bumping into colleagues at Café 1905? Do you long for the days of coming up with helpful ideas for either the SMHS or UND with friends by interacting in spontaneous ways outside the Center for Rural Health suite or Simulation Center? Let’s try to capture at leastRead More

UND’s Teaching Transformation and Development Academy (TTaDA) is offering one-day training sessions for UND.edu website editors, including for those who need to update/edit the School of Medicine & Health Sciences website. The new curriculum for this OmniUpdate (OU) platform includes OU basics and design migration/wave transition tips. Sessions are great for newRead More

Abby Fredrickson, M.D., will present “Kratom: The new legal high?” from 12:10 p.m. to 1:10 p.m. on Wednesday, August 5, 2020. This presentation will be held via Zoom/Video Conferencing. Dr. Fredrickson is a Third-Year Resident in the SMHS Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science. James L. Roerig, Pharm.D., BCPP, professorRead More

In recognition of outstanding performance in the encouragement, enrichment, and education of tomorrow’s physicians, the medical students Classes of 2022 and 2023 have recognized six faculty for Outstanding Block Instructor Awards in Block IV and Block VIII of the 2019-2020 academic year. The Class of 2022 (Year 2) Block VIIIRead More

Attention medical students: UND SMHS is now approved to administer the USMLE step I and step II exams by the NBME “event testing” program online. This shift is an attempt to compensate for the loss of testing availability options over the past few months due to COVID, and may inaugurateRead More