For Your Health

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 North Dakota Board of Medicine’s (NDBOM) annual meeting will be held in Room W206 of the SMHS at 8 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 21. Students, faculty, staff, and the public are welcome to attend this public event and light refreshments will be available. Established in 1890, the NDBOM holds meetings quarterly to discuss multiple […]

All faculty, staff, and students are invited to join us virtually for the next Java with Josh on Tuesday, Oct. 25, with their own coffee, tea, or juice! SMHS Dean Dr. Joshua Wynne will answer your questions about SMHS operations, budgets, events, and more. Join us online at 8:30 a.m. on Oct. 25 via Zoom […]

The state’s interdisciplinary Bridging Research and Practice Committee will host a professional conference at the Fargo Holiday Inn on Friday, Oct. 21, 2022, entitled “Interprofessional Collaboration, Health Sciences Research and Evidence-based Practice.” The conference is being hosted by the North Dakota Nurses Association and you can register here or via the QR code above. Join a multiprofessional group […]

We’re still celebrating UND Homecoming 2022, which saw the recognition of 10 years of our School’s Master of Public Health (MPH) program. As I said to our alumni, students, faculty, and staff at the SMHS Homecoming banquet last Friday, our MPH program has grown by leaps and bounds over the past decade, and, in retrospect, […]

“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 […]

For the next Neurology Grand Rounds, to be held from 12:15 to 1 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 13, Tiffany Doyle, M.D., will give a presentation entitled “Tardive Dyskinesia.” The event will be held in-person at the Brain & Spine Clinic, 2301 25th Street S., Fargo, Conf. Rm 1 and Conf. Rm. SMCF 6A, and via […]

This week has been especially busy across campus with Homecoming 2022 activities. The UND Alumni Association and Foundation (UND AAF) typically holds its fall board meeting during Homecoming week, and this year is no exception. The Board (of which I am an ex officio member) met yesterday and is meeting again today. The board meeting […]

A half-day symposium on healthcare for members of the LGBTQ+ community is just around the corner. “Sexual & Gender Diverse Communities: Best practices for healthcare and social service providers and staff” will be held from 12:30 to 3 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 17, in the UND Memorial Union Ballroom. The event’s keynote speaker, Christina McGee, […]

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, […]