For Your Health

After careful consideration, SMHS Library Resources will substitute our subscription to LWW Total Access with Neurology with the LWW Physician Assistant and Advanced Practice Nurse Journal Collection (PA/APN Collection), supplemented with à la carte journals that were determined based on user needs and requests (Neurology, Journal of American College of Surgeons, Ear and Hearing, and […]

For the next Neurology Grand Rounds, to be held from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 24, Adam Jackson, M.D., a neurosurgeon based at Sanford Health in Fargo, will discuss pituitary adenomas and “unraveling a common finding on MRI.” The meeting will be held in-person at the Sanford Brain and Spine Center, 2301 […]

Fresh off the recent announcement that it had received more than $400,000 in continuing funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) for its efforts, the UND-based North Dakota Statewide Cancer Registry (NDSCR) has been recognized by CDC as a “Registry of Distinction.” Without intending to boast, Dr. Cristina Oancea, lead epidemiologist […]

The Center for Rural Health (CRH) at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences has received three funding award renewals from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). HHS recently announced that the following CRH-based projects are receiving the following in 2026: $1,013,376 for the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility (Flex) Program. $243,410 […]

All SMHS faculty and staff are invited to the next All Hands event to be held in the Charles H. Fee Auditorium (E101) at noon on Tuesday, Oct. 13. Lunch will be served for in-person attendees with food service starting at 11:30 a.m. in the Joe & Norma Peltier East Atrium and on each SMHS campus. (Lunch […]

The UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (CoBRE) for Host-Pathogen Interactions is inviting researchers, students, and clinicians interested in infection, immunity, and inflammation to participate in the Tenth Annual Host-Pathogen CoBRE Symposium, to be held as an in-person event on Tuesday, Oct. 6, at the Gorecki Alumni Center. Keynote […]

For the next Neurology Grand Rounds, to be held from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 17, Tyler Hagen, D.C., a chiropractor based at Sanford Health in Fargo, will discuss the evaluation and management of neck and back pain in a multidisciplinary spine clinic. The meeting will be held in-person at the Sanford […]

North Dakota’s only mobile medical simulation program, UND’s Simulation In Motion-North Dakota (SIM-ND), is coming to a community near you. In July, the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) traveling program announced the arrival of two new “sprinter” style simulation vans — modeled on the slightly smaller, more agile ambulances typically seen on the […]

The second annual Health In Motion 5K walk/run will be held on the UND campus on Thursday, Oct. 8. Following a scenic route through UND’s campus, the run begins at 4:30 p.m. on the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences East Patio. Registration starts at 4 p.m. in the School’s Joe & Norma Peltier […]

Some sayings in medicine are rather obsolete (“Watch one, do one, teach one,” for example). Both in medicine and society, we might hear, “Fake it till you make it.” There is both wisdom and risk in this. Clearly the risk relating to those in safety-sensitive occupations (healthcare, aviation, engineering) would be misrepresenting one’s ability or […]