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DEAN JAKUB TOLAR, MD, PhD

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Welcome to the University of Minnesota Medical School, a world-class institution with a long history of leadership and discoveries that have changed the practice of medicine. We engage undergraduates in science and medicine, train medical students, produce PhDs in research, and enrich the experience of post-doctoral students, residents and fellows...

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OUR MISSION

We provide innovative education and training, research that advances medicine, and clinical care that improves the lives of our patients.

OUR VISION

Give the best of ourselves to create a Medical School where individuals thrive, collaborations elevate, and the best of medical practice, research and education form our legacy.

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Primary Care Physicians Training

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Minnesota's physicians trained at UMN Medical School

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Diversity Statement

The University of Minnesota Medical School is committed to excellence. Our mission will only be achieved through embracing and nurturing an environment of diversity, inclusiveness, equal opportunity, and respect for the similarities and differences in our community. Read our diversity policy.

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MEDICAL DISCOVERY TEAMS

Medical Discovery Teams work to advance research and care surrounding critical issues that affect our state; Addiction, Biology of Aging, Optical Imaging and Brain Science and Rural & American Indian Health Disparities.

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OUR ALUMNI

Our graduates play an important role in improving the medical profession, changing public policy and advancing health care. Seventy-percent of Minnesota's physicians trained at the University of Minnesota Medical School.

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Reaching Rural Minnesota

A new report from the University of Minnesota Medical School’s Healthy Youth Development - Prevention Research Center (HYD-PRC) highlights that Minnesota youth continue to contract sexually transmitted infections (STIs) at alarmingly high rates, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Understanding the differences in COVID-19 vaccine immune response among immunocompromised patients is the focus of a new national study led, in part, by the University of Minnesota Medical School.

Michael Puskarich, MD, in the Department of Emergency Medicine, and Christopher Tignanelli, MD, MS, in the Department of Surgery, determined that the common blood pressure medication, losartan, is not effective in reducing hospitalization for mildly-ill COVID-19 outpatients. 

Two recent studies led by researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School add new evidence to the impact of how drug price increases affect U.S. patients and the overall cost of health care.

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