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Ahmeti to give Surgery Grand Rounds talk on blood therapy on April 1

Categories: Education

On Friday, April 1, 2022, Mentor Ahmeti, M.D., FACS, associate program director and assistant professor in the UND Department of Surgery, will present a talk entitled “Blood Therapy: How we started and where we are” at Sanford Medical Center in Fargo, N.D. The talk will run from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. All are welcome […]

UND SMHS announces Relling as new Associate Dean for Health Sciences

Categories: News

The UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) is pleased to announce that Dave Relling, P.T., Ph.D., will be the School’s new Associate Dean for Health Sciences. As of July 1, 2021, Relling replaces retiring associate dean Tom Mohr, who has held the position since 2014. A graduate of the SMHS physical therapy program […]

UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences recognizes more than 220 graduating health sciences students

Categories: News

In addition to the 75 new medical doctors graduating from the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS), the School is recognizing nearly 230 students from its health sciences programs who are graduating on Saturday, May 15. One of those 200-plus students is Melissa Hayes, a laboratory supervisor who is graduating […]

SMHS leads the pack for UND Scholarly Commons downloads

Categories: Library

The UND Scholarly Commons research clearinghouse went online only three years ago. Soon after going live, the School of Medicine & Health Sciences Library Resources team began to upload scholarly projects, theses, publications, capstones, and more from multiple SMHS departments to the site for public use. In that time span, UND has accumulated 683,763 total downloads of its scholarly content, and we’re excited to announce that SMHS abstracts, […]

UND Sports PT Residency granted 10-year reaccreditation

Categories: News

The coordinators of the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) Sports PT Residency learned this week that the residency has been reaccredited for a full 10-year accreditation period. The accreditation was granted by the American Board of Physical Therapy Residency and Fellowship Education and will remain active through Jan. 31, 2031. “Our residency program director, […]

Spring 2020 North Dakota Medicine magazine now available!

Categories: News

As you may have noticed in your mailbox, or while perusing the displays in the SMHS or our website, the Spring 2020 issue of North Dakota Medicine is now available! Features this issue include stories on: The rise in anxiety in the U.S. Dr. Don Jurivich’s $3.75 million HRSA grant Students in Action: Logan Schmaltz Cracking the Code on SIDS Connor Murphy’s […]

UND Physical Therapy Alumni and Friends Reception in Denver Feb. 13

Categories: Events

The UND Department of Physical Therapy will host an Alumni & Friends Reception on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020, in Denver, Colo. The event is being held in conjunction with the APTA Combined Sections Meeting at the Sheraton Denver (located at 1550 Court Place in Denver). The event will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Sheraton’s Denver […]

Relling re-elected vice president of the Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy

Categories: News

David Relling, P.T., Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Physical Therapy at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences, was re-elected vice president on the board of directors for the Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy (FSBPT) on Oct. 26, 2019, at the Annual Delegate Assembly meeting of the FSBPT in […]

Doctor of Physical Therapy Class of 2021 students don white coats

Categories: News

In a few short weeks, 49 physical therapy students, members of the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) Class of 2021, will start the clinical studies portion of their journey to become doctors of physical therapy. The students received their white coats at the Entrance […]

School of Medicine & Health Sciences recognizes over 200 graduating health sciences and graduate students

Categories: News

In addition to the 73 new medical doctors graduating from the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) on Sunday, May 12, the School will see 237 students from its graduate and health sciences programs walk across the Alerus Center stage at the UND Commencement on Saturday, May 11. “We want […]

OT/PT/SLP students donate food items to Meals on Wheels

Categories: News

The Student Occupational Therapy Association (SOTA) recently facilitated a food drive and subsequent social event in which occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech-language pathology students and faculty contributed non-perishable food items to Grand Forks Meals on Wheels. Over 600 food items were donated, which were subsequently packaged into bags during an ice cream social event. […]

Student Occupational Therapy Association (SOTA) updates

Categories: News

The Student Occupational Therapy Association (SOTA) flourished last fall! The Student Occupational Therapy Association has three main purposes: (1) to broaden campus and community knowledge of the occupational therapy profession, (2) to unify students and increase their knowledge of occupational therapy and related fields, and (3) to be active in national issues impacting the occupational […]

Occupational Therapy students welcome speaker from High Plains Fair Housing Center

Categories: Education, News

On Nov. 15, the Kappa Chapter of Pi Theta Epsilon welcomed guest speaker Kelly Gorz from the High Plains Fair Housing Center in Grand Forks to campus. The mission of the High Plains Fair Housing Center is “to strengthen communities and to ensure equal access to fair housing in the region through training, education, enforcement, […]

Bids still being accepted for annual “Rent an OT” student fundraiser

Categories: News

Student Occupational Therapy Association (SOTA) members at UND are seeking to raise funds for the St. Catherine Challenge. The St. Catherine Challenge is a national student-led initiative to build the profession of occupational therapy through raising funds for research in support of the American Occupational Therapy Foundation’s mission. Schools of occupational therapy across the nation […]