{"id":7900,"date":"2021-10-14T23:59:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T04:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/for-your-health\/?p=7900"},"modified":"2021-10-14T17:27:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T22:27:14","slug":"from-the-dean-the-place-to-be-for-indigenous-health-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/for-your-health\/2021\/10\/14\/from-the-dean-the-place-to-be-for-indigenous-health-education\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Dean: The place to be for Indigenous health education"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I should begin by noting that earlier this week we celebrated Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Day. As you know, the UND SMHS has made Indigenous health and healthcare \u2013 not to mention the education of Indigenous health providers \u2013 one of our major goals. Just a month ago, for example, we announced the formation of the world\u2019s first Department of Indigenous Health. This announcement follows a string of notices from the School along similar lines, including the recently announced Indigenous Trauma & Resilience Research Center (ITRRC), the result of a five-year, $10 million award from the National Institutes of Health, and the School\u2019s new practice-based research network (PBRN) to be known as the American Indian Collaborative Research Network (AICoRN). On this last, the ITRRC is in the midst of managing a new clinical trial on the health benefits of chokeberries, which have been part of Indigenous medicine for centuries.<\/p>\n

Most of these efforts are the result of the work of INMED director Dr. Don Warne and his excellent team, who have done many amazing things in a very short amount of time. I can\u2019t tell you how proud it makes me to say that for anyone interested in Indigenous health \u2013 as a provider, researcher, public health professional, or teacher \u2013 you very likely can\u2019t do better than UND. And the world, it seems, is catching on to this fact. Just last week, for example, Dr. Warne, director also of our public health program and the School\u2019s associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion, was awarded the 2021 Helen Rodr\u00edguez-Tr\u00edas Award for Social Justice from the American Public Health Association<\/a>. 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

In other news, the longtime Associate Dean of our Southwest Campus in Bismarck, Dr. A. Michael Booth, is retiring. Dr. Booth has been a fixture in the Bismarck-Mandan community for decades and was helping train our medical students years before I arrived in North Dakota. I always appreciated Dr. Booth\u2019s commitment to students, and although I\u2019m happy for him that he\u2019s retiring, I\u2019ll miss his wise counsel and leadership on the Southwest Campus.<\/p>\n

At the same time, I\u2019m very pleased that Dr. Luke Roller, clinical assistant professor and chair of radiology with the School, has been named Dr. Booth\u2019s successor. Dr. Roller\u2019s skill as a physician-educator is well-known, and he\u2019s a huge fan of North Dakota. I have no doubt he will adapt well to the associate dean role and look forward to his energy and enthusiasm.<\/p>\n

Thanks, then, to Dr. David Schmitz, professor in the SMHS Department of Family & Community Medicine, who\u00a0will serve as interim chair of our Department of Radiology until a replacement for Dr. Roller is named. An internal search for a new radiology chair is open at the School now, and interested candidates are encouraged to contact Heather Jensen (heather.jensen@UND.edu<\/a>) for information on how to apply for the position.<\/p>\n

Turning to Homecoming, it is with regret that we\u2019ve\u00a0had to cancel\u00a0our School\u2019s 2021\u00a0Milestone Banquet. This decision was made after careful consideration of the current trajectory of the COVID-19 delta variant in the region, and its likely community presence later in October.\u00a0As much as it pains me to do so, with cases still trending upward it becomes harder to justify bringing alumni together to eat and mingle in a state with a SARS-CoV-2 positive test rate floating around 10% in some counties (and around at least 7% in Grand Forks). So, we\u2019ll do the safest thing for now and look forward to next year\u2019s banquet, which will celebrate 10 years of our amazing public health program.<\/p>\n

But we still encourage you to participate in our multi-disciplinary\u00a0Continuing Education Symposium<\/a>, entitled \u201cDisrupting Aging,\u201d\u00a0to be held in hybrid fashion from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 22. Education credits are still available to participants who join us even online for presentations on topics such as the biology of aging, the value of mobility for aging persons, elder mental health, and \u201cGeri Pop,\u201d an aging simulation for providers.<\/p>\n

You can still register for the symposium here<\/a>, and I hope to “see” you there.<\/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":"

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