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Last Saturday we welcomed 65 new physicians into the medical profession during the UND SMHS Medical Doctor Commencement ceremony, and tomorrow we will graduate more than 240 health sciences and graduate students during UND Spring Commencement. The guest speaker at last week’s event, selected by the graduating medical students as their commencement speaker, was Dr. […]

Please join the staff of the SMHS Simulation Center as we celebrate the forthcoming retirement of Simulation Center Director Dr. Jon Allen. After more than 36 years of dedicated service to healthcare in North Dakota, an open house reception to celebrate Dr. Allen’s career will be held in the SMHS West Atrium from 2:30 to […]

For the next Surgery Grand Rounds, to be held from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. on Friday, May 17, Patrick Kane, M.D., will present “Teaching Surgical Residents & Concepts of Emotional Intelligence.” This broadcast will be held via Zoom/video conferencing. Dr. Kane is a recent University of North Dakota General Surgery Residency Program graduate and […]

For the next Neurology Grand Rounds, from 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, May 16, John Riedinger, M.D., will discuss uncertainty in diagnoses. The meeting will be held in person at the Brain & Spine Clinic, 2301 25th St. S. in Fargo, Conf. Rm. 1 and Room SMCF5D, and via Webex (Meeting no./access code: 2438 […]

For the next Psychiatry Grand Rounds, from 12:10 p.m. to 1:10 p.m. on Wednesday, May 15, Arpit Heer, M.D., will present “A Review of Antipsychotics Related Extrapyramidal Side Effects.” This broadcast will be held via Zoom/video conferencing. Dr. Heer is a third-year resident in the UND Psychiatry Residency Training Program. Kenneth Troxclair, D.O., is psychiatrist […]

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 festivities on May 3 and 4, including the Dean’s Special Recognition Awards for Outstanding Volunteer Faculty. Of the roughly 1,700 physicians in […]

What an exciting time of year! Tonight we will hold the Commencement Awards Banquet for the members of the medical student Class of 2024, and tomorrow we’ll award M.D. degrees to 65 highly qualified and highly motivated new doctors. Similar commencement events will take place a week from tomorrow when our graduating health sciences and […]

Attention SMHS researchers: The Vilcek Foundation is currently accepting applications for the 2025 Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science. In 2025, the Vilcek Foundation will award three prizes of $50,000 to immigrant and foreign-born research scientists living and working in the United States. To be eligible candidates must hold a Ph.D. and be […]

For the next Neurology Grand Rounds, from 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, May 9, Michael Burson, M.S.W., L.C.S.W., will discuss diversity and inclusion efforts at Sanford Health. The meeting will be held in person at the Brain & Spine Clinic, 2301 25th St. S. in Fargo, Conf. Rm. 1 and Room SMCF5D, and […]

One of the hot topics of discussion on campus relates to the compensation study by the Huron Consulting Group that is underway currently at UND. The Huron study was developed to augment the compensation analyses that UND has been doing for some time. Although this analysis of UND compensation remains a work in progress, I […]