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May, 2023

As you may recall, the recently concluded academic year had been dubbed “The Year of Gratitude” by UND President Andy Armacost. We recently witnessed two amazing expressions of gratitude, the first by the Medical Student Class of 2026 and the second by the staff of the SMHS to recognize the thoughtfulness and caring of the […]

All faculty, staff, and students are invited to join us virtually for the next Java with Josh on Thursday, Sept. 28, with their own coffee, tea, or juice! SMHS Dean Dr. Joshua Wynne will answer your questions about SMHS operations, the new academic year, events, and more. Join us online at 8:30 a.m. on Sept. […]

The University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences (UND SMHS) is pleased to announce a new pilot grant program funded through the UND SMHS Dean’s office. The goal of the pilot program is to provide support to the most promising and novel biomedical research projects and help investigators obtain data necessary for […]

Congratulations to Holly Brown-Borg, Ph.D., Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor with the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences, who has been awarded a five-year, $3.5 million grant from the Hevolution Foundation for a project entitled “Cellular mechanisms of frailty onset.” This project focuses on the underlying aging biology that […]

For the next Neurology Grand Rounds, from 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, June 8, Amanda Diamond, M.D., will give a presentation entitled “Management of Status Epilepticus.” The meeting will be held in person at the Brain & Spine Clinic, 2301 25th St. S. in Fargo, Conf. Rm 1 and Conf. Rm. SMCF1A2, and […]

Kudos to all the health sciences students who graduated this past weekend. As I mentioned last week, the time was filled with many happy events, including two commencement ceremonies (one for graduate and the other for undergraduate degrees), hooding events for the students from occupational therapy, physical therapy, and physician assistant studies, and receptions for […]

As the temperatures rise across North Dakota this spring and summer and students gear up to take a break on their studies, a number of research projects at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences also are warming up. Several SMHS faculty have been awarded research grants in recent months, allowing researchers at the […]

As you might have heard, Dr. Marc Basson, senior associate dean for medicine & research at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences, will be the next Dean of the School of Medicine at Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED). To celebrate Dr. Basson’s time at UND and wish him well, a farewell reception will […]

From March 31 to April 2, 2023, 42 UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) medical students and 10 multi-disciplinary faculty participated in the SMHS Department of Emergency Medicine’s third annual “UND Wild Med” event at Turtle River State Park in North Dakota. As part of the elective course “Wilderness Life Support for Medical […]

For the next Neurology Grand Rounds, from 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, May 25, Brad Smith, M.D., will give a presentation entitled “Bacterial meningitis.” The meeting will be held in person at the Brain & Spine Clinic, 2301 25th St. S. in Fargo, Conf. Rm 1 and Conf. Rm. SMCF1A2, and via Webex […]

Please join UND Department of Biomedical Sciences faculty and staff at noon on Tuesday, May 23, as they host a presentation by assistant professor faculty candidate Hansol Im, Ph.D. Dr. Im, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, will give a presentation entitled “Metabolic shifts of Streptococcus pneumoniae in different anatomical sites […]

What an exciting and wonderful week! As I outlined in last week’s For Your Health column, last Saturday we graduated 75 senior medical students as the newest graduates of the UND SMHS. And tomorrow we will graduate nearly 230 more health professions students during UND’s graduate (morning) and undergraduate (afternoon) commencement ceremonies. These graduates-to-be represent […]

In addition to the 75 new medical doctors graduating from the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) this month, the School is recognizing nearly 230 students from its health sciences programs who are graduating on Saturday, May 13, 2023. “I have learned so much about myself professionally as well as […]

For the next Neurology Grand Rounds, from 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, May 18, Rohit Mahajan, M.D., will give a presentation entitled “Opioid prescribing/management: Recognition of dependence and substance-use disorder.” The meeting will be held in person at the Brain & Spine Clinic, 2301 25th St. S. in Fargo, Conf. Rm 1 and […]

The 2023 Staff Recognition Luncheon and Awards Ceremony, honoring staff with 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, and 50 continuous years of service to the University of North Dakota, was held on Tuesday, May 9, in the UND Memorial Union. Among the SMHS staff celebrating a work anniversary of 5, 10, 15, 20, […]