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Brian Schill

Chloe Ree, M.D., will present “Electronic Medical Record Inbox: Friend or Foe?” from 12:10 to 1:10 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. This broadcast will be held via Zoom/video conferencing. Dr. Ree is a fourth-year resident in the UND Psychiatry Residency Training Program. Jonathan Olivas, M.D., a psychiatrist with Sanford Health in Fargo, N.D., and […]

In last week’s column I summarized the many events that took place at UND and the SMHS with the start of the fall semester. Today I’d like to give you a “heads up” about some exciting upcoming events so that you can check your calendar for possible attendance at one or more of the public […]

Homecoming 2023 at the School of Medicine & Health Sciences will be held Oct. 6-7 and will celebrate milestone grads and 30 years of Athletic Training! Register for 2023 Homecoming events here Events Friday, Oct. 6 Continuing Education Symposium | 8:30–11:30 a.m. Interprofessional approaches to wellness School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Room W203 and […]

The start of the fall semester has proven to be a busy week and a half! A variety of exciting events took place both at UND and the SMHS. First up at UND was last Thursday, when President Armacost presented the State of the University Address, followed by a “Picnic with the Prez” at University […]

For the next Neurology Grand Rounds, from 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 31, Kara Cline, Ph.D., L.P., will give a presentation entitled “Psychological treatment of Non-Pharmacologic Pain Mangement.” The meeting will be held in person at the Brain & Spine Clinic, 2301 25th St. S. in Fargo, Conf. Rm 1 and Conf. […]

For the next Neurology Grand Rounds, from 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 7, John Hutchison, M.D., will give a presentation entitled “Lumbar MRI interpretation for neurologists.” 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, […]

In my column from a few weeks ago, I mentioned that the North Dakota University System (NDUS), in conjunction with the State Board of Higher Education (SBHE), is planning to update its current strategic visioning document (called Envision 2030) to run through 2035. Envision 2035, as it is called, will be the blueprint for how […]

The medical simulation teams at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) and College of Nursing & Professional Disciplines (CNPD) are celebrating Simulation in Healthcare Week 2023 with a series of events Sept. 18-22, including open houses for both programs’ medical simulation facilities on the UND campus. The largest and most active center of […]

Each fall, Dr. Joshua Wynne, UND’s vice president for health affairs and dean of the School of Medicine & Health Sciences, invites all UND students, faculty, staff, and community members to advocate healthful lifestyles by joining him for Joggin’ with Josh, an informal 5K or 10K walk, jog, or run around the UND campus. This […]

The second episode of Dakota Health, a School of Medicine & Health Sciences health and medicine podcast produced in-house at UND, is now available. In this episode, Dakota Health speaks with Dr. Sandeep Singhal, associate professor in both the School of Medicine & Health Sciences Department of Pathology and the university’s School of Electrical Engineering […]

Back in June, Dr. Kay Miller Temple, web writer for the UND Center for Rural Health, and Dr. David Schmitz, chair of the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences Department of Family & Community Medicine, recorded a conversation on rural health for StoryCorps, an NPR- and Library of Congress-adjacent organization whose mission is “to […]

Anna Lambertz is a laboratory technician in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences in Grand Forks. Originally from West Fargo, N.D., Anna attended UND, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology. She now works under the direction of Dr. Amanda Haage. Anna supports the functioning of […]

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been updating, revising, and finalizing the presentation materials I’ll use starting this coming week when I’ll deliver a series of talks to our medical students on various aspects of cardiovascular pathophysiology, including valvular heart disease, coronary artery disease, pericardial and myocardial diseases, and other related topics. One of the […]

Feeling overwhelmed by the sheer amount of artificial intelligence (AI) news and also pressured to at least dip your toe in? Then check out the new SMHS Library Resources AI Guide. AI seems to be everywhere, and information on it is also incredibly fluid. Librarians created this guide to be a dynamic resource for the […]

For the next Neurology Grand Rounds, from 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 17, Arif Shaik, M.D., will give a presentation entitled “External ventricular drain” (EVD). The meeting will be held in person at the Brain & Spine Clinic, 2301 25th St. S. in Fargo, Conf. Rm 1 and Conf. Rm. SMCF1A2-5D, and […]