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After a competitive search process, the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) is thrilled to announce Jacy O’Keefe, M.D., an emergency medicine (EM) and trauma physician at Sanford Health in Bismarck, N.D., as the new chair of the School’s Department of Emergency Medicine. O’Keefe is a Bismarck native and 2019 graduate of North […]

UND’s Department of Indigenous Health offers area researchers novel training on conducting research with Indigenous communities more ethically. In 2004, the Havasupai Tribe of American Indians, which has called the American Grand Canyon its home for more than 800 years, filed a lawsuit against the Arizona Board of Regents and Arizona State University (ASU). Researchers […]

Darcia Pingree, a member of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe from the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, is the new Grants and Project Coordinator for the Indigenous Trauma and Resilience Research Center (ITRRC) within the Department of Indigenous Health at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences. Darcia previously served as a Graduate Research Assistant […]

The UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences Indigenous Trauma & Resilience Research Center (ITRRC) will host a Zoom-based research ethics (rEthics) presentation for research in Indigenous communities on Wednesday, Sept. 25. At the session, Cynthia Pearson, Ph.D., will discuss application of the Belmont Report and the Common Rule in American Indian / Alaska Native […]

Nicola Herting, Ph.D., LP, will present “Responding to Child Trauma” from 12:10 p.m. to 1:10 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 17. This broadcast will be held via Zoom/video conference. Dr. Herting is clinical director of the Traumatic Stress Treatment Center at Sanford Health in Fargo; clinical director of the Treatment Collaborative for Traumatized Youth and adjunct […]

As I mentioned last week, all week long we’ve been celebrating the 50th anniversary of our renowned Indians Into Medicine (INMED) program – despite the snow! Since 1973, this first-of-its-kind program has helped produce more than 270 Indigenous physicians who otherwise might not have become doctors. That’s hundreds of physicians, and other health providers, who […]

Jonathan Geiger, Ph.D., a Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS), has been named the vice chair (interim) of the SMHS Department of Indigenous Health (IH). Working in coordination and collaboration with Melanie Nadeau, M.P.H., Ph.D., interim chair of the Department of […]

For the next Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Whitney Fear, MSN, PHN, PMHNP-BC, will present “Ista Nitokab Yakasna Watakisni (Care considerations for Plains Indigenous populations)” from 12:10 to 1:10 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, at UND Southeast Campus auditorium in Fargo. Fear is a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner in Fargo. Upon completion of this program, the […]

Jonathan Geiger, Ph.D., a Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS), has been named the Interim Principal Investigator (PI) on the School’s five-year, $10 million the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (CoBRE) research award targeting Indigenous health. […]

Nicola Herting, Ph.D., will present “Understanding & Responding to Child Trauma” for the next Psychiatry Grand Rounds, to be held from 12:10 p.m. to 1:10 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. This broadcast will be held via Zoom/video conferencing. Dr. Herting is an adjunct assistant professor at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences, […]