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World’s First-Ever ECMO-based Clinical Trial Shows Six Times Higher Survival Rates Among Cardiac Arrest Patients
The NIH-funded study, led by Demetri Yannopoulos, MD, in the Department of Medicine, was stopped early due to superiority in results. Six out of 14 patients survived after early ECMO-facilitated...
Faculty, Legacy, Patient Care, Research
The Light at the End of the Tunnel is Not a Train
As an academic institution―where it is our responsibility to foster civil discourse, multiple perspectives, and diversity of opinion―ideas matter.
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Elder in Residence Seeks to Rebuild Trust in Medicine Among Tribal Populations
Rick J. Smith, a member of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and long-time leader for the American Indian Learning Resource Center at the U of M Duluth, is now the Elder in Residence, who...
Community Engagement, Diversity & Inclusion, Duluth, Research
Whiteside Memorial Lecture: COVID-19 Research & Implications with Dr. Michael Osterholm
Please join us for our 22nd Annual Whiteside Memorial Lecture, focusing on COVID-19 research and implications with keynote speaker, Dr. Michael Osterholm.
Community Engagement, Duluth, Faculty, Research
Department of Neuroscience Celebrates 20 Years While Looking Toward the Future
From humble beginnings, the Department of Neuroscience now has 37 faculty and over 50 graduate students fully dedicated to advancing the discipline. The department maintains five areas of expertise:...
Education, Faculty, Legacy, Spotlight
Scholarship Focused on Minority Women Makes Duluth Student’s Education Reality
Courtney Cotsonas, a first-year medical student, chose the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus, honoring her family’s legacy as traditional healers in tribal communities. She is the...
Diversity & Inclusion, Duluth
Alumna, Psychiatrist Follows Dream to Support Tribal Communities
Melvina Bissonette, ’12 MD, provides outpatient psychiatric care to Native American communities and recognizes the importance of caring for people who have experienced a difficult and challenging...
Alumni, Duluth
Could Microbes Play a Role in COVID-19 Outcomes for Pregnant Mothers, Infants?
Cheryl Gale, MD, FAAP, in the Department of Pediatrics, received a CO:VID grant to study if and what associations exist between gut microbiomes and COVID-19 health outcomes for pregnant mothers and...
Faculty, Research
When Things Drag on Too Long
One of the greatest lessons of the pandemic is that, no matter how brilliant our individual achievements, they pale compared to what we can do when we all work together toward a common objective.
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New Pediatric Cancer Study Focuses on Possible Genetic Risk Factors for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Logan Spector, PhD, in the Department of Pediatrics, recently received a five-year, $3 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to study the role of genetic admixture in risk and outcome of...
Faculty, Research
Racism is hurting our patients. What will we do about it?
Brooke Cunningham, MD, PhD is studying racial inequities in health and health care systems, and providers’ willingness to address racism as the fundamental cause. She is designing a...
Radiology Professor, Now Fulbright Scholar, Will Study the Molecular Markers of Brain Tumors
Malgorzata Marjanska, PhD, a professor in the Department of Radiology performing research at the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, has been awarded a 2021 Fulbright Scholar award to expand on...
Faculty, Research
Professor of Orthopedic Surgery Elected to National Board
Ann Van Heest, MD, in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, has been elected as secretary of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery for a one-year term.
Alumni, Faculty, Spotlight
Professor of Medicine Receives Local, Esteemed Award
Daniel J. Weisdorf, MD, a professor in the Department of Medicine and deputy director of the U of M Clinical and Translational Institute, received the 2020 Charles Bolles Bolles-Rogers Award from the...
Alumni, Community Engagement, Faculty
International Research Partnership Looks to Improve how ACL Revision Outcomes are Predicted and Treated
Kyle Martin, MD, in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, is partnering with the University of Oslo to develop an in-clinic calculator to predict the risk of ACL reconstruction failure at a patient-...
Faculty, Research
U of M Researchers Help Write the Encyclopedia of the Human Genome
Juan Carlos Rivera-Mulia, PhD, in the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, helped to expand the catalogue of functional elements in the human genome to nearly one million as...
Faculty, Research
Dr. Tom Birkey, ’61, Celebrates RPAP’s Anniversary by Starting New Student Scholarship
Dr. Birkey became one of the very first preceptors of the Rural Physician Associate Program in 1971, where he mentored and trained 24 medical students for 29 years. In 2019, he donated $50,000 to...
Alumni, Education, Legacy, Spotlight
University of Minnesota Trial Shows Hydroxychloroquine Does Not Prevent COVID-19 in High-Risk Health Care Workers
University of Minnesota Medical School physician researchers studied hydroxychloroquine as a treatment to prevent COVID-19 for those with high-risk for exposure to the virus – health care workers....
Research
$1.8M NIH Grant Will Seek to Understand Circadian Sleep Problems in Neurological Diseases
Ruifeng (Ray) Cao, MD, PhD, in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, will investigate the unknown mechanisms of disrupted circadian rhythms that contribute to various neurological and psychiatric...
Duluth, Research
Andrea Westby, MD, Appointed Inaugural Josie Robinson Johnson Endowed Chair in Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
We are proud to announce that the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health has created the Josie Robinson Johnson Endowed Chair in Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. Our inaugural...
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