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Michele Allen, MD, MS, Earns the 2021 Carole J. Bland Award for Outstanding Faculty Mentorship
Michele Allen, MD, MS, an associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, earned the 2021 Carole J. Bland Award for her work mentoring faculty.
Education, Faculty, Spotlight
Ashe Lab Aims to Halt, Potentially Reverse Memory Loss Associated with Dementia
Karen Ashe, MD, PhD, in the Department of Neurology, is leading research to better understand how dementia develops, along with a medication that could halt and potentially reverse associated memory...
Faculty, Research, Spotlight
ElevateMeD Scholarship Enables Hodan Abdi to Pursue Global Health Research
Hodan Abdi, a third-year University of Minnesota Medical School student and ElevateMeD Scholarship recipient, hopes to give back to the community through global health research.
Diversity & Inclusion, Education, Spotlight, Students
University of Minnesota Medical School researcher awarded $5M to reduce childhood obesity disparities
Jerica Berge, PhD, MPH, LMFT, CFLE, in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, has been awarded a $5 million grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH) to conduct a...
Research
Story Slam Facilitates Conversations about Medical Student Mental Health
As part of March’s Story Slam, Kyle Priyl, MD, courageously addressed physician and medical student mental illness and earned a spot in May’s edition of Academic Medicine.
Diversity & Inclusion, Duluth, Education, Spotlight, Students
U of M Medical School receives $1.5M to launch nation’s first ivermectin COVID-19 treatment clinical trial
An expansion of an ongoing outpatient clinical trial, the study now includes metformin, fluvoxamine and ivermectin as possible treatments of COVID-19 and to prevent “long COVID”
Research
Two Medical School Faculty Named ELAM Fellows
Rahel Ghebre, MD, MPH, in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health, and Leslie Morse, DO, in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, have been selected as Executive Leadership...
Diversity & Inclusion, Faculty, Spotlight
A Journey Across International Waters to Become a Minnesota Physician
Incoming internal medicine resident, Dr. Tesfatsiyon Ergando, has been tireless in the pursuit of helping others – a journey that led him from Ethiopia to the Twin Cities. Now, he looks forward to...
Diversity & Inclusion, Education, Patient Care, Spotlight
Medical Student Creates, Auctions NFTs to Promote Mental Health Awareness
Carmen Aguirre, a second-year medical student, has created NFTs that uniquely depict mental illness – auctioning them off and donating part of the proceeds to support mental health education and...
Community Engagement, Students
Professor Honored by the American Psychological Association
William Robiner, PhD, ABPP, LP, a professor in the Department of Medicine, has been honored with the Toy Caldwell-Colbert Award for Distinguished Educator in Clinical Psychology for his commitment to...
Education, Faculty
Socioeconomic status non-factor in severe COVID-19 for racial, ethnic populations in Twin Cities
A research team, led by the University of Minnesota Medical School, found that regardless of socioeconomic status, Twin Cities residents of underrepresented racial and ethnic backgrounds endure worse...
Diversity & Inclusion, Patient Care, Research
Fourth-Year Medical Student Shares His Journey from Art to Medicine
After working as an artist, Rosenblum pivoted to medicine. Scholarships have allowed him the flexibility to pursue his specialty of choice and many other passions.
Alumni, Education, Students
American Heart Association Awards ‘Inclusive Excellence’ Grant to Medical School Department
The Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology is advancing what inclusive excellence can mean in undergraduate cardiovascular research through a multi-year grant.
Diversity & Inclusion, Education, Faculty, Research, Students
Memory Keepers Medical Discovery Team Receives $1M NSF Grant to Examine Successful Aging Among Alaska Native Elders
Jordan Lewis, PhD, MSW, professor and Memory Keepers Medical Discovery Team (MDT) faculty investigator, is embarking on a three-year research project to define what it means to “age in a good way”...
Community Engagement, Diversity & Inclusion, Duluth, Faculty, Research
Long-time Mortuary Science Supporters, Bill ’52 and Kay ’53 McReavy, Earn the U of M’s Highest Honor
The Regents Award recognizes the McReavys for their quiet and humble, yet transformative, support of the Medical School’s Program of Mortuary Science.
Alumni, Education, Legacy
U of M Medical School researchers identify target for senolytic drugs
University of Minnesota Medical School research, led by Laura Niedernhofer, MD, PhD, found that senescent immune cells are the most dangerous type of senescent cell and should be targeted with...
Research
Dr. Amy Nygaard ’03 Shares Experience with Transition to Psychiatric Telehealth, Physician Burnout
With an influx of patients requiring telehealth options during the pandemic, Dr. Nygaard has also seen an increase in burnout, stress and anxiety among healthcare workers. The former Duluth...
Alumni, Duluth
Meet the Next Generation of Neurosurgery
When Cleresa Roberts graduates this May, earning both her medical degree and Master of Business Administration, she will join an exclusive group of neurosurgery residents as one of the only Black...
Diversity & Inclusion, Students