For Your Health

Attention all SMHS website editors: University IT will begin transitioning all “Auto by Dept” and “Auto by IDM” People Listing snippets to the new People Listing Component on Sunday, June 14. Action Required Before June 14  Prior to the transition, those with access to the CMS must:  Check in/unlock all pages that contain a People Listing (Auto by Dept) and People Listing (Auto by IDM) Snippet.  Publish any pages with […]

The Health In Action podcast from the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences Dean’s Office is back! In our second episode, SMHS Dean Dr. Marjorie Jenkins talks with Aerica Nagornyuk, a graduate student in UND’s Department of Biomedical Sciences. A North Dakota native, Nagornyuk chatted with Dr. Jenkins recently about getting hooked on research […]

After 37 years of working in North Dakota, Dr. Robert Olson, director of the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) Psychiatry Residency Training Program, is retiring! To honor Olson, a reception will be held from 3 to 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 24, at the SMHS Southeast Campus in Fargo (4820 23rd Ave. […]

With a combined 80 years of UND service under their belts, Mary Coleman and Linda Ray, faculty in UND’s Department of Medical Laboratory Science (MLS), are calling it a career. Come help Team MLS celebrate two faculty who have shaped not only UND’s but North Dakota’s (and the region’s!) medical laboratory programs for a generation. […]

In May, Rebecca Quinn, associate director of the UND Center for Rural Health (CRH), presented at the National Academies of Science, Medicine, and Engineering in Washington, D.C., discussing “mental health after a traumatic brain injury (TBI).” Quinn, who included information about brain injury in rural communities in her talk, is also Director of the CRH’s […]

Did you miss the National Institute on Aging (NIA) Regional Directors Conference at UND in May? Fear not: each of the NIA presentations are available online. Thank you to everyone who attended the two-day conference!

UND has an institutional subscription to the University of Michgan’s Institute for Social Research ICPSR database, giving affiliates access to a valuable collection of data resources and research support tools at no cost. This may be especially useful for those involved in TRANSCEND or anyone working on projects with federal data-sharing requirements. To get started, […]

For the next Neurology Grand Rounds, to be held from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, June 4, Lisa Schock, M.D., psychiatrist with Sanford Health in Fargo, N.D., will discuss anxiety in neurological practice. The meeting will be held in-person at the Sanford Brain and Spine Center, 2301 25th St. S. in Fargo, Conf. […]

The 4th annual statewide North Dakota Native American Veterans Stand Down event will be held June 10-11 at the Prairie Knights Casino and Resort in Fort Yates, N.D. This free, two-day event is dedicated to bringing programs and resources together in one location and will connect Native Veterans with the support they may need and […]

Talking epigenetics, Dr. Motoki Takaku mused from his office at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) that studying what’s happening inside a cell is a bit like tuning a radio: there’s signal, and there’s noise. Sometimes a lot of noise. And all too often, he said, this noise interferes with researchers’ ability […]