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A surgical training course at UND helps equip rural physicians for emergency situations when you can’t call for back-up “Rural surgeons aren’t typically doing these big trauma cases,” explained Bismarck native Ben Axtman, M.D., FACS, “but if a patient comes in and the hospital doesn’t have time to transport them – or with North Dakota’s […]

Ron and Joyce Tello discuss taking advantage of North Dakota’s Challenge Grant program to help build the state’s healthcare workforce All it took was a nudge. “Up to this point, Joyce and I have been concentrating our giving on the Bismarck area,” said Dr. Ron Tello from his home in Bismarck, N.D., of he and […]

Graduating UND medical students name Bismarck surgeon Dr. Tim Pansegrau ‘preceptor of the year’ Clearing his throat, fourth-year UND medical student Jacob Tupa reviewed his notes before looking into his laptop camera. “Students consistently described Dr. Timothy Pansegrau as an outstanding preceptor who goes above and beyond in both teaching and mentorship,” read Tupa. The […]

Big Congratulations to the three UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences students who took home prizes from UND’s annual Graduate Research Achievement Day (GRAD) event last week! In the “Professional, Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities” category, UND Department of Medical Laboratory Science student Abigail Chrisman won second place while Payton Baumann, a student in UND’s […]

The UND LEADS Implementation Team is looking forward to sharing a campus-wide update on progress made under LEADS during the past year, and we’d appreciate your help spreading the word to your teams to encourage broad participation. UND has two opportunities coming up in March:  LEADS in Action: Turning Data into Direction – March 3 […]

UND’s School of Medicine & Health Sciences looks to boost the state’s healthcare workforce with an ambitious new project Facing an audience of physicians at a recent North Dakota Medical Association (NDMA) meeting, Dr. Marjorie Jenkins, dean of the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) and the University’s vice president for health affairs, […]

On Dec. 1, departments from across the University braved the cold, post-Thanksgiving weather to join a launch event for the UND Community Quilt Project, a campuswide effort to create a California king–sized quilt celebrating UND’s Year of Community. From now through January, departments across campus will collaborate to design 144 squares telling the story of […]

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 […]

Over the past ten days, UND has posted multiple videos dedicated to discussions ongoing at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences. In the first video from May 13, Pres. Armacost speaks with Dr. Jacob Warren, director of the UND Center for Rural Health. Warren became director of the Center for Rural Health in […]

Despite stereotypes about the catastrophic nature of airplane accidents, the vast majority of pilots and passengers experiencing a fixed-wing airplane emergency do survive. At the same time, many survivors of accidents suffer an injury that requires immediate medical attention. This reality prompted Drs. Jon Solberg and Justin Reisenauer – pilots themselves – to reach out […]