For Your Health

As you might have heard, Dr. Marc Basson, senior associate dean for medicine & research at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences, will be the next Dean of the School of Medicine at Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED). To celebrate Dr. Basson’s time at UND and wish him well, a farewell reception will […]

From March 31 to April 2, 2023, 42 UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) medical students and 10 multi-disciplinary faculty participated in the SMHS Department of Emergency Medicine’s third annual “UND Wild Med” event at Turtle River State Park in North Dakota. As part of the elective course “Wilderness Life Support for Medical […]

For the next Neurology Grand Rounds, from 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, May 25, Brad Smith, M.D., will give a presentation entitled “Bacterial meningitis.” The meeting will be held in person at the Brain & Spine Clinic, 2301 25th St. S. in Fargo, Conf. Rm 1 and Conf. Rm. SMCF1A2, and via Webex […]

Please join UND Department of Biomedical Sciences faculty and staff at noon on Tuesday, May 23, as they host a presentation by assistant professor faculty candidate Hansol Im, Ph.D. Dr. Im, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, will give a presentation entitled “Metabolic shifts of Streptococcus pneumoniae in different anatomical sites […]

What an exciting and wonderful week! As I outlined in last week’s For Your Health column, last Saturday we graduated 75 senior medical students as the newest graduates of the UND SMHS. And tomorrow we will graduate nearly 230 more health professions students during UND’s graduate (morning) and undergraduate (afternoon) commencement ceremonies. These graduates-to-be represent […]

In addition to the 75 new medical doctors graduating from the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) this month, the School is recognizing nearly 230 students from its health sciences programs who are graduating on Saturday, May 13, 2023. “I have learned so much about myself professionally as well as […]

For the next Neurology Grand Rounds, from 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, May 18, Rohit Mahajan, M.D., will give a presentation entitled “Opioid prescribing/management: Recognition of dependence and substance-use disorder.” The meeting will be held in person at the Brain & Spine Clinic, 2301 25th St. S. in Fargo, Conf. Rm 1 and […]

The 2023 Staff Recognition Luncheon and Awards Ceremony, honoring staff with 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, and 50 continuous years of service to the University of North Dakota, was held on Tuesday, May 9, in the UND Memorial Union. Among the SMHS staff celebrating a work anniversary of 5, 10, 15, 20, […]

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 ceremonies on Saturday, May 6, including the Dean’s Special Recognition Awards for Outstanding Volunteer Faculty. Of the roughly 1,700 physicians in North […]

For the next Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Rohit Mahajan, M.D., will present “Fibro-my-algebra: Making sense of a confusing diagnosis” from 12:10 to 1:10 p.m. on Wednesday, May 17. This broadcast will be held via Zoom/video conferencing. Dr. Mahajan is a pain management physician and medical director and department chair of the Sanford Health Pain Clinic. Upon […]