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Nissen receives Emerging Leader Award
Kylie Nissen, senior project coordinator
for the State Office of Rural Health
(SORH) program at the University of
North Dakota Center for Rural Health
(CRH), received the Emerging Leader
Award from the National Organization of
State Offices of Rural Health (NOSORH).
Nissen received this national award in
October during NOSORH’s annual
conference in Madison, Wisconsin. Kylie Nissen
Each year, the organization presents
the Emerging Leader Award to an individual State Office of
Rural Health staff member who has demonstrated new
leadership, initiative, involvement, and commitment to the
mission of NOSORH or State Offices of Rural Health. The
recipient may be a new staff member or existing staff member
who has newly demonstrated exemplary communication,
passion or understanding of an issue to enhance education
advocacy or partnerships to improve rural health. Recipients for
this award are chosen from a pool of nominations submitted
from peers and are selected by a national panel.
According to Lynette Dickson, CRH associate director,
“Kylie is a young professional who leads by example with vision,
drive and creativity. She thrives on being actively engaged and
contributing in her own state, in the region, and nationally through
NOSORH always with a can-do spirit and positive attitude.”
She is an active committee member in NOSORH work such
as planning regional and annual meetings, and most recently is
serving on the NOSORH Board as cochair of the communication
committee. She is a committee member of the Center for Rural
Health’s wellness, communication, and technology committees.
She also serves as the executive director of the North Dakota
Rural Health Association and provides consistent guidance to
the board in order to keep the organization moving forward.
“It is an honor to receive this award from NOSORH,”
Nissen said, “They are an amazing group to be a part of. Being
able to go to work each day and love and feel passionate about
what I am doing is a true gift. The mentorship and support from
coworkers at the Center for Rural Health has inspired me and
taught me that what we do really can make a difference.”
NOSORH was created in 1995 to serve as an influential
voice for rural health concerns and promote a healthy rural
America through state and community leadership.
Training students to care for those who serve
Jamie Lombardo
Second-year medical student Jamie Lombardo was featured in
the November 2012 AAMC Reporter. During the year that Jamie
Lombardo spent dispatching helicopters in Iraq in 2005, enemy
mortar rounds hit her air base, 75 miles north of Baghdad, an
average of four or five times a day. She was never injured, but
many of her fellow veterans from that conflict and the one in
Afghanistan returned home with physical injuries, psychological
scars, or both. Read more at http://bit.ly/Q5Flb0.
—By Stephen G. Pelletier, special to the Reporter
UND medical students receive
scholarships for 2012–2013
A total of $366,737 in scholarships has been awarded to 135
medical students at the University of North Dakota School of
Medicine and Health Sciences for the 2012–2013 academic year.
Funds for the scholarships are given from various private sources,
endowments and scholarship funds. Please visit the following link
for a complete list of scholarship recipients: http://bit.ly/TxcSYH.
Biennial Report available online
The Second Biennial Report: Health Issues for the State of North
Dakota 2013, compiled by the UND School of Medicine and
Health Sciences Advisory Council, is now available online at
http://bit.ly/YbnHan.
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