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Brian Schill

Yesterday the SMHS held its 44th annual Frank Low Research Day. Named in honor of the former SMHS professor of anatomy who came to UND in the 1960s and pioneered a series of new techniques using the electron microscope, Frank Low Research Day is the culminating event of the academic year for many area researchers […]

The next UND Department of Internal Medicine Grand Rounds event, “A Brief History of Racism in Medicine & Current Health Disparities,” will be broadcast via Zoom from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, April 17. This presentation features guest speaker Nneka Sederstrom, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.A., chief health equity officer at Hennepin Healthcare in Minneapolis, Minn. […]

Adrianna (Anna) Jackson is from the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and grew up in Cloquet, Minn. Anna serves as the outreach and recruitment coordinator in the Office of Alumni & Community Relations at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences. She earned her bachelor’s degrees in biology and Native American […]

For the next Surgery Grand Rounds, to be held from 8 to 9 a.m. on Friday, April 19, Alessandra Spagnolia, M.D., will present “Surgeon Suicide, A Post-COVID Update.” This broadcast will be held via Zoom/video conferencing. Dr. Spagnolia is a fifth-year resident in the UND Surgery Residency Training Program. Upon completion of this program, the […]

Congratulations – and thanks! – to our physician colleagues in celebration of National Doctors’ Day that took place this past Saturday, March 30. All of us are grateful for the dedicated, caring, thoughtful care that physicians and the entire cadre of other healthcare professionals provide to all of us. I’m reminded of the days during […]

In recognition of outstanding performance in the encouragement, enrichment, and education of tomorrow’s physicians, the medical student Class of 2027 has recognized three faculty for Outstanding Unit Instructor Awards in Unit IV for the 2023-24 academic year. The Class of 2027 (Phase 1) Unit IV awardees are the following individuals: Susan Roe, M.D., Clinical Professor, […]

The 49th annual Medical Laboratory Professionals Week (MLPW) will take place April 14-20. Although key members of the diagnostic healthcare team, laboratory professionals are often behind-the-scenes in their diagnostic and analytical work, resulting in a lack of understanding among many people outside the profession of what laboratory scientists do on a daily basis. Consider the […]

For the next Neurology Grand Rounds, from 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, April 11, Devendranath Mannuru, M.D., and Karin Nellermoe will discuss the clinical documentation improvement (CDI) and mortality index reduction project. The meeting will be held in person at the Brain & Spine Clinic, 2301 25th St. S. in Fargo, Conf. Rm. […]

When a cardiac emergency strikes, an automated external defibrillator (AED) can help save a life. But saving a life could mean knowing where AEDs are located. Although UND provides a map of AEDs located on campus, what should you do if a cardiac emergency occurs off campus? PulsePoint AED is an app utilized by the North […]

Last week I attended the annual meeting of the Council of Deans, sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). More than two-thirds of all North American medical school deans attended the meeting, and there was a general consensus that it was a quite successful meeting. Enough time was allowed for us to network […]

For the next Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Amanda Stadem, D.O., will present “Nonpharmacologic Treatment of Adult ADHD” from 12:10 to 1:10 p.m. on Wednesday, April 3. This broadcast will be held via Zoom/video conferencing. Dr. Stadem is a third-year resident in UND’s Psychiatry Residency Training Program. Dr. Lisa Schock, clinical assistant professor at the UND School […]

For the next Surgery Grand Rounds, Allan Kirk, M.D., will present “The Future of Surgery” from 8 to 9 a.m. on Friday, March 29. This broadcast will be held via Zoom/video conferencing. Dr. Kirk is a distinguished professor and chair of the Department of Surgery at Duke University School of Medicine, and surgeon-in-chief at Duke […]

UND’s Dakota Geriatrics group is proud to present its fourth annual symposium, “Age Friendly Healthcare for American Indian Elders,” to be held on April 10, 2024. This virtual symposium, taking place from 7:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. on April 10, is a free learning opportunity for healthcare providers and professionals to listen to national experts […]

“I am so thrilled. I matched at Stanford, which was my number one choice, and I am just so excited to be here.” Almost trembling with joy in a second-floor classroom at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS), fourth-year medical student Megan Corn was trying hard—but not too hard—to contain her excitement […]

Congratulations to Drs. Melanie Nadeau and Shawnda Schroeder, assistant professors in the SMHS Department of Indigenous Health, who were informed by Wiley Publishing recently that their two separate journal articles were in the top 10% of articles downloaded via their respective journals in the past year. According to Wiley, Nadeau’s paper “Centering culture in the […]