News from the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences
As you may have noticed in your mailbox, or while perusing the displays in the SMHS or our website, the Holiday 2019 issue of North Dakota Medicine is now available! Features this issue include stories on: Second Year INMED student Emily Falcon and her physician-father Gilbert Med student Pranish Kantak’s effort to build a student-run free clinic in Grand Forks Drs. […]
Categories: Research
The Dakota Cancer Collaborative on Translational Activity (DaCCoTA) will soon be reissuing three RFAs for the Feasibility, Ready-to-Go, and Community Engagement pilot grants. The Feasibility Award is intended to provide support to allow a clinician/non-clinician team to form around a novel cancer-related hypothesis. Applications can consider the multilevel manifestations of cancer (e.g., neurological, psychiatric), demographic […]
The UND Department of Internal Medicine was recently awarded a grant from the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) as part of the #ProudtobeGIM campaign to promote careers in General Internal Medicine (GIM). As part of this grant, we are excited to announce that we will be hosting a #ProudtobeGIM event for residents, SMHS medical […]
Nadeem Khan, Ph.D., assistant professor in the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) Department of Biomedical Sciences, has been awarded a five-year, $1.78 million, five-year grant by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This prestigious R01 grant will support Dr. Khan’s research […]
Dr. Tracie Mallberg will present “Being Mortal – End of Life Conversations” from 12:10 p.m. to 1:10 p.m. for the next UND Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science Grand Rounds. The event will be held on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019, at the UND Southeast Campus auditorium in Fargo. Dr. Mallberg is a physician and medical […]
The UND Department of Biomedical Sciences and the School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) Host-Pathogen Interactions CoBRE Group present their next Faculty Candidate Seminar on Tuesday, Dec. 17. At noon in SMHS Room E224, Paul (Li-Hao) Huang, Ph.D., instructor in the Washington University School of Medicine’s Department of Pathology and Immunology, will present “Interstitial lipoprotein trafficking […]
Categories: Events
The UND Department of Biomedical Sciences and the School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) Host-Pathogen Interactions CoBRE Group present their next Faculty Candidate Seminar on Tuesday, Dec. 10. At noon in SMHS Room W203, Shahram Solaymani-Mohammadi, MSPH., Ph.D., staff scientist, Center for Global Infectious Disease will present “It Takes Two Flints to Make A […]
Categories: Welcome
Silas Pera is an information and funding specialist with the Center for Rural Health (CRH) at the University of North Dakota (UND) School of Medicine & Health Sciences in Grand Forks. Silas works on a federally funded national website supporting the response to the substance use and opioid crisis in the U.S. He develops and […]
Categories: From the Dean
Drs. Joshua Wynne and Susan Farkas wish everyone in the extended UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences family a Happy Thanksgiving. Dr. Wynne’s column will return on Friday, Dec. 6.
The UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences will host a holiday party for faculty, staff, students, and friends of the School from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Gorecki Alumni Center on Tuesday, Dec. 10. The School will also host holiday parties for our three satellite campuses in Bismarck (Dec. 3), Fargo (Dec. 5), […]
Ahmed Hayow, M.D., will present “Perception of Mental Illness in a Somali Community” from 12:10 p.m. to 1:10 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, at the UND Southeast Campus auditorium in Fargo. Dr. Hayow is a second-year resident in the Psychiatry Residency Training Program. Timothy Vo, M.D., a clinical associate professor at the UND School […]
The UND Department of Biomedical Sciences and the School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) Host-Pathogen Interactions CoBRE Group present their next Faculty Candidate Seminar Wednesday, Dec. 4. At noon that day, in SMHS Room W202, Jingwei Cheng, Ph.D., instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, will present “Merkel cell polyomavirus ST antigen stabilizes L-Myc […]
Categories: Library
In order to enhance support and services to our constituents and to better manage resources, UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences Library Resources team is encouraging users of library resources, including you, to take our UND SMHS Library Resources Survey online. The survey should take fewer than 10 minutes to complete. Your input about the library […]
Categories: News
In recognition of outstanding performance in the encouragement, enrichment, and education of tomorrow’s physicians, the medical classes of 2022 and 2023 have recognized six faculty for Outstanding Block Instructor Awards in Block I and Block V of the 2019-20 academic year. The Class of 2022 (Year 2) Block V awardees are the following individuals: Seema […]
Categories: Events
UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences Dean Joshua Wynne would like to invite you to the annual SMHS Holiday Luncheon, to be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019, in the SMHS second floor event space on the School’s north end. Everyone is welcome, but please RSVP by Nov. 30 […]