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UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences announces student, faculty, and medical resident award winners

The University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) presented a number of awards to its graduating medical students and the School’s faculty and other community volunteers during its Commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 6, including the Dean’s Special Recognition Awards for Outstanding Volunteer Faculty.

Of the roughly 1,700 physicians in North Dakota, more than 1,300 have voluntary clinical faculty appointments at the SMHS, said Joshua Wynne, M.D., M.B.A., M.P.H., vice president for health affairs and dean of the SMHS. UND’s medical school – the only M.D.-granting school between Minneapolis and Washington state – leads all North American medical schools in such community appointments.

“As a community-based institution, the School could not carry out its educational mission without the dedication and sacrifice of our voluntary faculty members,” Wynne added. “We are fortunate to have many dedicated physicians from across North Dakota who teach. These physicians have gone above and beyond the call of duty in giving our students the benefit of their time, experience, knowledge, and wisdom gained from years of caring for patients.”

The winners of the Dean’s Special Recognition Awards for Outstanding Volunteer Faculty were:

  • Lacey L. Armstrong, M.D. – Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Sanford Medical Center, Bismarck, N.D.
  • Douglas J. Hess, D.O. – Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Prairie St. John’s, Fargo, N.D.
  • Jennifer K. Johnson, M.D. – Clinical Instructor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Trinity Health, Minot, N.D.
  • Sunil R. Kartham, M.D. – Clinical Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, Altru Hospital, Grand Forks, N.D.
  • Nolan M. Kleinjan, M.D. – Clinical Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, CHI Dickinson Medical Center, Dickinson, N.D.
  • Mallory Koshiol, M.P.H. – Clinical Instructor, Internal Medicine, Allina Health, Minneapolis, Minn.
  • Stephen T. Linn, M.D. – Clinical Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Essentia Health, Fargo, N.D.
  • Sadie Schmidt, M.D. – Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Sanford Children’s Hospital, Fargo, N.D.
  • Kate A. Syverson, M.S.W. – Clinical Instructor, Internal Medicine, Sanford Health, Fargo, N.D.

The graduating medical student class also selected the following outstanding physicians-teachers at each campus:

  • Kristin Gray, M.D. – Clinical Instructor, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Bismarck, N.D.
  • Dane Brecker, M.D. – Clinical Associate Professor, Neurology, Fargo, N.D.
  • Tana Setness-Hoefs, M.D. – Clinical Instructor, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Grand Forks, N.D.
  • Dawn Mattern, M.D. – Clinical Assistant Professor, Family & Community Medicine, Minot, N.D.

Awards given to graduating medical students included:

North Dakota Medical Association Awards  

  • Mikaela Herberg
  • Sarah Lesmeister
  • Nadia Toumeh

North Dakota Medical Association Alliance Award

  • Peter Bueide
  • Anja Selland

North Dakota District Medical Society Awards  

  • First District (Fargo) – Sarah Prochniak and Nadia Toumeh
  • Third District (Grand Forks) – Kayla Fussy
  • Fourth District (Minot) – Anja Selland
  • Sixth District (Bismarck) – Peter Bueide

University Alumni Special Awards  

  • Anja Selland
  • Caleb Ellingson
  • KC Braaten

North Dakota Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians Scholarship Award

  • Wyatt Telken

Dr. John Wahl Memorial Rural Health Scholarship Endowment Award  

  • Annabel Jiran

Kokila and Raman Patel, M.D., Family Practice Award                    

  • Kalvin Slaubaugh

Dr. Frank E. Stinchfield Award, academically outstanding student   

  • Peter Bueide

Dr. Nadim and Rola Kanafani Koleilat Award  

  • Ann Marie O’Connell

The Welsh Award  

  • Luke Teigen
  • Cooper Love

Robert C. Painter, M.D., Internal Medicine Award

  • Drew Thompson

Lloyd S. Ralston, M.D., Memorial Endowment Award

  • Joseph Wood

Dr. Louis B. and Thelma K. Silverman Medical Award  

  • Mikayla Patel

Tiongson Humanities Award

  • Wyatt Lautt

Altru Clinic Senior Medical Student Fund Award  

  • Anja Selland
  • Christy Jesme
  • Allison Valerius

Preceptor Recognition Student Scholarship (given this year in honor of Dr. Leah Thompson, pictured above)

  • Lindsey Martens

Glasgow-Rubin Award from the American Medical Women’s Association

  • Kirsten Bokinskie
  • Mikaela Herberg
  • Sarah Lesmeister
  • Ann Marie O’Connell
  • Anja Selland
  • Nadia Toumeh

American College of Physicians – Department of Internal Medicine Mack V. Traynor Award

  • Anja Selland

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Senior Award

  • Mikaela Herberg

Bradley Neil Meyer, M.D., Diagnostic Radiology Award  

  • Luke Teigen
  • Wyatt Lautt

Department of Surgery Senior Award  

  • Mitchell Thelen

Michael Kaspari Recovery Award

  • Parker Rosenau

Richard P. Stadter Excellence in Psychiatry Award

  • Cody Riggle

Joy M. Query Prize for Social and Behavioral Science

  • Michael Solc

William Crozier and Edith Magwood Fawcett Faculty Enhancement Award

  • Shawnda Schroeder, Ph.D., M.A.

The Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Awards

  • Faculty Awardee – Susan Zelewski, M.D., M.E.H.P.
  • Student Awardee – Caleb Ellingson

The Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Recognition

  • Tisha Corum
  • Caleb Ellingson
  • Leesha Heitkamp
  • Mikaela Herberg
  • Sarah Lesmeister
  • Ann Marie O’Connell
  • Amanda Palme
  • Mishell Quiridumbay
  • Parker Rosenau
  • Karan Saravana
  • Justin Schafer
  • Jacob Stern
  • Allison Valerius

Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society Recognition

  • Kirsten Bokinskie
  • Peter Bueide
  • Therese Carson
  • Erin Eidsness
  • Mikaela Herberg
  • Christy Jesme
  • Sarah Lesmeister
  • Cooper Love
  • Ann Marie O’Connell
  • Keaton Rummel
  • Justin Schafer
  • Anja Selland
  • Jacob Stern
  • Mitchell Thelen
  • Nadia Toumeh

Alpha Omega Alpha Faculty Recognition

  • Chris Pribula, M.D.
  • Fidel Nammour, M.D.
  • Siddharth Singhal, M.D.
  • Stefan Johnson, M.D.
  • Jennifer Johnson, M.D.

Alpha Omega Alpha Alumni Recognition

  • Daniel Field, M.D.

Alpha Omega Alpha Resident Recognition

  • Lejla Gasevic, M.D.
  • Joclyn Seiler, M.D.
  • Conor Roche, M.D.
  • Shannon Chamberlain, M.D.
  • Alex Spacek, M.D.
  • Mathew Gerving, M.D.