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Grace Karikari, Ph.D., assistant professor in the SMHS Department of Indigenous Health, recently received the Rural and Environmental Research Award from the American Public Health Association (APHA) Aging & Public Health Section for her work titled “Caring for the Aging Population in Ghana: Knowledge, Beliefs, and Best Practices.” The APHA Awards Ceremony was held on Nov. […]

As you might have noticed in your mailbox, the Fall 2025 issue of North Dakota Medicine magazine is now available in both online and paper formats. And check out our new North Dakota Medicine website! This issue’s feature stories include: Build it and they will come: UND Occupational Therapy and Biomedical Engineering partner on device […]

A 43-mile stretch of Highway 12 in South Dakota, around 70 miles south of the North Dakota border, contains much of the life story of a UND physician assistant (PA) program graduate who has dedicated his personal and professional life to serving others. Clint Perman’s path to becoming a PA started in 1989 when he […]

The University of North Dakota (UND) School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) has selected Dr. Jacob C. Warren, Ph.D., M.B.A., C.R.A., as the new director of its Center for Rural Health (CRH). Warren comes from Wyoming, where he was most recently dean and tenured professor in the College of Health Sciences at the University […]

AOTA President Alyson Stover visits UND and envisions how OT can be primary care for the entire community. In September 2024, Alyson Stover, president of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), sat down with Sarah Nielsen, Chair of UND’s Department of Occupational Therapy, and Kara Welke, founder and owner of Home Therapy Solutions, LLC, and […]

Mark your calendars for the next two Wadhwani Family Dean’s Hour events, to be held at noon on Dec. 5 and Dec. 12. On Thursday, Dec. 5, Dr. Timothy McBride, the Bernard Becker professor of health policy at Washington University’s Brown School, will discuss health economics and reform in the context of rural healthcare. On […]

Second-year physical therapy student Karlie Wardner looks to bring her skills to rural North Dakota soon. Karlie Wardner is a pragmatist. And maybe a bit of a homebody. And that’s okay, admits the second-year Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) student from Grafton, N.D. “My main focus is geriatrics,” says Wardner, making the most of her […]

A trio of UND graduates finds that the road ‘home’ runs through Dickinson, N.D. In the far western North Dakota community of Dickinson, three graduates of the University of North Dakota (UND) School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) have found their purpose and passion in rural practice. In their short time in the field, […]

This past Wednesday I was invited to participate in a meeting of our Internal Medicine Interest Group, organized and run by medical students interested in that specialty. This session was intended as a subspecialist question-and-answer panel for students interested in the different pathways within internal medicine. As you may know, internal medicine is a wide-ranging […]

“Look – North and South Dakota are ranked numbers four and five on the list of states for the percentage of Alzheimer’s incidence,” stressed Dr. Don Jurivich, chair of the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences Department of Geriatrics. “We’re still not doing enough early detection and need to move the needle on that. […]