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Med students present posters at National Association of Medical Examiners meeting

McKenzie Jackson and Cassondra (Cassie) Kambeitz, both fourth-year medical students at the SMHS, presented posters at the National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME) virtual annual meeting Oct. 16-17, 2020. The title of McKenzie’s poster was “Postmortem diagnosis of Clostridium without culture confirmation” and the title of Cassie’s poster was “Thrombosis of bioprosthetic valve associated with acute myocardial injury.” Both students worked with Dr. Walter Kemp, associate professor in the UND Department of Pathology, on their projects, and McKenzie was awarded the “John Pless MD Best Student Award” for her poster! Congratulations!