{"id":7875,"date":"2021-10-07T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/for-your-health\/?p=7875"},"modified":"2021-10-07T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T00:08:00","slug":"from-the-dean-homecoming-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/for-your-health\/2021\/10\/07\/from-the-dean-homecoming-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Dean: Homecoming is coming!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Fall is in the air, of course, which means not only Fighting Hawks football but Homecoming at UND. If you\u2019ve not already done so, remember to register for one of our Homecoming events<\/a>, in particular our annual interdisciplinary continuing education symposium taking place at least virtually, if not in-person, on Friday, Oct. 22. The topic for this year\u2019s symposium is \u201cDisrupting Aging,\u201d something that we all have a stake in because we\u2019re all aging every day. Elders are our patients\u2014or will be very soon\u2014and putting more of a focus on geriatric medicine and what our Department of Geriatrics chair Dr. Don Jurivich calls \u201cage-friendly communities\u201d will become only more important as the Baby Boomers get older. The latest issue of our quarterly magazine North Dakota Medicine<\/em><\/a> has a nice primer<\/a> on the symposium.<\/p>\n

In other news, Dr. Don Warne, director of our public health and Indians Into Medicine programs and the School\u2019s associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion, has been awarded the 2021 Helen Rodr\u00edguez-Tr\u00edas Award for Social Justice from the American Public Health Association<\/a> (APHA). This is an incredible, national accomplishment that speaks, again, to the caliber of work ongoing at UND in these arenas \u2013 public health, Indigenous health, and the production of Indigenous health providers.<\/p>\n

As our School\u2019s news release puts it, the Helen Rodr\u00edguez-Tr\u00edas Social Justice Award is presented to an individual who has distinguished themselves professionally by working toward social justice for disadvantaged populations. It is named after the late Helen Rodr\u00edguez-Tr\u00edas, past president of the American Public Health Association and a pediatrician who, according to the APHA, \u201cstrove to meet the needs of underserved and disadvantaged populations, especially women and children.\u201d<\/p>\n

In their very nice nomination letter, Grand Forks Public Health Director Debbie Swanson and SMHS public health program Assistant Director Melanie Nadeau wrote that Dr. Warne\u2019s \u201cwelcoming spirit is present in every classroom, community event, public arena, and in his home. He demonstrates inclusion in all his interactions with students, colleagues, neighbors, and community residents. Dr. Warne is a public health colleague, extraordinary teacher, social justice advocate, and worthy of this award nomination.\u201d<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t agree more. I congratulate Dr. Warne on yet another national recognition of his great work.<\/p>\n

Also, I\u2019m very excited about the new Preceptor Recognition Student Scholarship Program that the UND SMHS has developed with the UND Alumni Association & Foundation (AAF). The preceptor program is funded by an initial $100,000 endowment that will produce at least $3,750 annually for a medical student scholarship, although the AAF is working hard to increase this amount. What makes this scholarship special is that it allows fourth-year medical students to select their favorite \u201cpreceptor\u201d (or clinic-based instructor) based on their third-year clinical rotations.\u00a0Come graduation in May 2022, a scholarship will be given in the chosen preceptor\u2019s name to\u00a0a rising third-year student who earned the highest cumulative medical science and clinical science grade in Phase 1, which lasts approximately 20 months, of their four-year curriculum.\u00a0Current third-year medical students will get an opportunity to select a different preceptor next year, and a student from the MD Class of 2025 will receive a scholarship in that new preceptor\u2019s name in May 2023, and so on.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m pleased to announce that the inaugural clinical faculty selected by our medical students for this honor is Dr. Devendranath \u201cDev\u201d Mannuru, internal medicine clerkship director and associate program director of the School\u2019s Internal Medicine Residency. We appreciate the enthusiasm Dr. Mannuru brings to this new program.\u00a0So, congratulations, Dr. Mannuru, and thanks for making your clinic a place where our students feel not only comfortable but that they learn a lot from a consistently effective clinical instructor.\u00a0You can learn more about Dr. Mannuru and the scholarship and how you might contribute in honor of Dr. Mannuru, if you are so inclined,\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Finally, I should note that with a positivity rate for COVID-19 testing hovering around 10%<\/a> or more in many North Dakota counties, the pandemic is nowhere near behind us. And this bump in cases is putting a real strain on our hospitals, as Governor Burgum recently noted<\/a>. This additional demand on the health system has led to increased delays in access to care, particularly in emergency rooms and inpatient settings. Some patients are again being referred outside of their regions, sometimes to facilities hundreds of miles away.<\/p>\n

So, remember to be diligent about masking, handwashing, and vaccinations. And remember to get a flu shot too!<\/p>\n

Joshua Wynne, MD, MBA, MPH
\nVice President for Health Affairs, UND
\nDean, UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fall is in the air, of course, which means not only Fighting Hawks football but Homecoming at UND. If you\u2019ve not already done so, remember to register for one of our Homecoming events, in particular our annual interdisciplinary continuing education symposium taking place at least virtually, if not in-person, on Friday, Oct. 22. 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