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December, 2019

With UND 2019 Winter Commencement activities concluding this afternoon, the first semester of the 2020 academic year is winding down. Yesterday we held commencement for students receiving professional and graduate degrees, and later this afternoon we will have two ceremonies to send off those receiving undergraduate degrees, including students from the School of Medicine & […]

As you may have noticed in your mailbox, or while perusing the displays in the SMHS or our website, the Holiday 2019 issue of North Dakota Medicine is now available! Features this issue include stories on: Second Year INMED student Emily Falcon and her physician-father Gilbert Med student Pranish Kantak’s effort to build a student-run free clinic in Grand Forks Drs. […]

The Dakota Cancer Collaborative on Translational Activity (DaCCoTA) will soon be reissuing three RFAs for the Feasibility, Ready-to-Go, and Community Engagement pilot grants. The Feasibility Award is intended to provide support to allow a clinician/non-clinician team to form around a novel cancer-related hypothesis. Applications can consider the multilevel manifestations of cancer (e.g., neurological, psychiatric), demographic […]

The UND Department of Internal Medicine was recently awarded a grant from the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) as part of the #ProudtobeGIM campaign to promote careers in General Internal Medicine (GIM). As part of this grant, we are excited to announce that we will be hosting a #ProudtobeGIM event for residents, SMHS medical […]

Susan and I visited the Northwest (Minot) campus yesterday for the last holiday party of the season, and it was a lot of fun. As I’ve mentioned before, the School hosts these get-togethers on all three of our regional campuses in Minot, Fargo, and Bismarck, along with one on the central campus in Grand Forks. […]

Nadeem Khan, Ph.D., assistant professor in the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) Department of Biomedical Sciences, has been awarded a five-year, $1.78 million, five-year grant by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This prestigious R01 grant will support Dr. Khan’s research […]

Dr. Tracie Mallberg will present “Being Mortal – End of Life Conversations” from 12:10 p.m. to 1:10 p.m. for the next UND Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science Grand Rounds. The event will be held on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019, at the UND Southeast Campus auditorium in Fargo. Dr. Mallberg is a physician and medical […]

The UND Department of Biomedical Sciences and the School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) Host-Pathogen Interactions CoBRE Group present their next Faculty Candidate Seminar on Tuesday, Dec. 17. At noon in SMHS Room E224, Paul (Li-Hao) Huang, Ph.D., instructor in the Washington University School of Medicine’s Department of Pathology and Immunology, will present “Interstitial lipoprotein trafficking […]

On a sad note, the long-time building service technician for the School, Art Rice, recently passed away after spending 38 years supporting faculty, staff, and students at UND. Art acquired a severe hearing problem at a young age, but that never stopped him. We will miss him, and I’m sure that you’ll join me in […]

The UND Department of Biomedical Sciences and the School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) Host-Pathogen Interactions CoBRE Group present their next Faculty Candidate Seminar on Tuesday, Dec. 10.  At noon in SMHS Room W203, Shahram Solaymani-Mohammadi, MSPH., Ph.D., staff scientist, Center for Global Infectious Disease will present “It Takes Two Flints to Make A […]

Silas Pera is an information and funding specialist with the Center for Rural Health (CRH) at the University of North Dakota (UND) School of Medicine & Health Sciences in Grand Forks. Silas works on a federally funded national website supporting the response to the substance use and opioid crisis in the U.S. He develops and […]