The Department of Family Medicine and Community Health (DFMCH) has created the Carole J. Bland, Ph.D. Endowed Chair in Research. Our inaugural holder of the Carole J. Bland, Ph.D. Endowed Chair is Jerica Berge, PhD, MPH, LMFT, CFLE, professor and vice chair for research in the DFMCH.
Over the past year, M Health Fairview Clinic - Bethesda has been caring for many of the refugees who recently arrived from Afghanistan. In this interview, Lily Rubenstein, RN, BSN, PHN, and Emily Odegard, MSW, LGSW, describe how Woodwinds Hospital Family Medicine residents and the rest of the team have come together to provide whole-person care for these patients.
After more than 20 years with the University of Minnesota, the Mankato Family Medicine Residency Program will graduate its last U of M class in June 2022. The ACGME Sponsoring Institution for the program will change from the University of Minnesota Medical School to the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science effective July 1, 2022.
Jerica Berge, PhD, MPH, LMFT, CFLE, along with her interdisciplinary team of co-investigators, were awarded $3,249,455 under the R01 mechanism on behalf of the National Center for Complementary & Integrative Health (NCCIH) (NIH) for their grant entitled "Multi-level predictors of structural racism and discrimination and associations with health and well-being across the life course in diverse families."
Nic Rider, PhD, assistant professor at the Institute for Sexual and Gender Health and associate director for research at the National Center for Gender Spectrum Health, recently changed appointment tracks at the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. They are now a tenure-track research faculty pursuing their areas of research including the health of transgender and gender-diverse youth. In this interview, Dr. Rider shares their latest research and upcoming presentations.
