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NEWS BRIEFSCenter for Rural Health Part ofNew Grassroots Rural Policy ProjectThe Center for Rural Health at the UND School of Medicineand Health Sciences is one of the first participants in thenational Rural People, Rural Policy program.The new five-year national initiative, funded by theW.K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, MI, builds andstrengthens networks of local organizations to developpolicy that will help rural communities and small towns.This initiative intends to grow from regional networksinto a national network of rural organizations and nationalservice groups working on a variety of economic and socialissues that impact rural America, according to a statementby the Kellogg Foundation announcing the awardees.The foundation funded only 24 of the 190 proposalsthey received for the first year. The Center for Rural Healthis the only health-related organization selected toparticipate. The remaining 23 are primarily communitydevelopment, youth or policy organizations.New Program to Provide Better Care forTraumatized ChildrenMental health professionals with the NeuropsychiatricResearch Institute (NRI) and the UND medical school aredeveloping a program to train their colleagues to providemore effective treatment for children who are victims oftrauma, particularly in the form of abuse and neglect.In a new two-year program, the NRI will offer trainingfor North Dakota mental health clinicians in new treatmentsthat have been found to be effective in assisting childrenwho have been victims of abuse and neglect.NRI has received funding support for this initiativetotaling $150,000 from the Otto Bremer Foundation and$50,000 from the Dakota Medical Foundation.Women’s Health Conference Held Sept. 18The first North Dakota Women's Health Connection will beheld Monday, Sept. 18 from 1-5 p.m. at the Alerus Center inGrand Forks. The event, sponsored by the North DakotaWomen's Health CORE located in the UND Department ofFamily and Community Medicine, will address a variety ofissues affecting women across their life spans includingpreconception planning, depression, healthy relationships,fibromialga, varicose veins, incontinence and healthy aging.NASA Consultant Saralyn Mark, MD, will provide thekeynote address on women's heart health. Tickets are $10in advance, $15 at the door, for more information pleasecontact Alicia Sandbakken at 7-3264 orasandbakken@medicine.nodak.eduBismarck Radiologist Appointed ChairEdward (Ted) Fogarty, M.D.,a Bismarck radiologist, has beenappointed chairman of theDepartment of Radiology at the UNDSchool of Medicine and HealthSciences effective July 1.Fogarty, who joined the UNDmedical school faculty in October2003, will continue to live andpractice in Bismarck at MedcenterOne Health Systems.Fogarty completed an undergraduate degree, withhonors, at the University of Chicago in 1993 and thenworked as a research assistant at the Howard HughesMedical Institute in Chicago. He went on to earn the Doctorof Medicine degree from the University of Nebraska Collegeof Medicine in Omaha in 1998.After medical school, he took one year of training inUNDs transitional year internship program based atMeritCare Hospital in Fargo and, in 2003, completed a fouryearradiology residency program at Creighton UniversityMedical Center, St. Joseph Hospital, in Omaha. Duringresidency training, he served as chief resident and receivedthe RSNA Roentgen Resident/Fellow Research Award. Hewas also elected into the Alpha Omega Alpha honor societyas a resident while at Creighton University Medical Center.In 2003, he joined the Medcenter One Health Systems as astaff radiologist.Feds Fund Mental Health First AidProgram in StateThree North Dakota health organizations have teamed toreceive a $375,000 federal grant to establish a mental healthfirst aid program in North Dakota.The Tribal Health Program of the Standing Rock SiouxTribe in Ft. Yates, ND, partnered with the Center for RuralHealth at the UND School of Medicine and Health Sciencesin Grand Forks, ND, and West River Health Services inHettinger, ND, to apply for the competitive grant from thefederal Office of Rural Health Policy. The grant program isdesigned to encourage the development of new andinnovative health care delivery systems in rural communitiesthat lack essential health care services.The mental health first aid program developed throughthis grant over the next three years will be the first of itskind in the nation. Similar to basic first aid courses thatmany Americans take to provide immediate help to physicalinjuries, mental health first aid helps people learn how toprovide initial support to those showing signs of mentalhealth problems or in a mental health crisis until appropriateprofessional treatment is received.26 NORTH DAKOTA MEDICINE Fall 2006
NEWS BRIEFSINMED Summer Institute Prepares StudentsNative American junior and high-school-level students fromacross the country were at UND for six weeks this summeras part of the Indians into Medicine (INMED) SummerInstitute program.The annual Summer Institute is designed to bolsterparticipants math and science skills, teach students abouthealth careers, and help them develop their potential toachieve in health science classes.Approximately 90 Native American junior and highschool-levelstudents from 10 states attended INMEDSummer Institute this year.The program includes daily group and individualizedinstruction in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology,communication and study skills. Indian health professionalsand experts who represent a variety of health disciplinesserve as guest speakers, giving an overview of health careersopportunities. The Summer Institute experience alsoincludes field trips, recreation, pow wows, and Indianawareness workshops.Cornatzer Receives Research FellowshipEric Cornatzer, a medical student atthe UND School of Medicine andHealth Sciences, received a MedicalStudent Fellowship from the AmericanDermatological Association (ADA) toconduct research this summer.The son of Dona and BillCornatzer, M.D. (B.S. Med. 79), ofBismarck is one of only eight studentsselected to receive the award this year,according to the ADA which accepts applications from U.S.and Canadian medical students. Eric recently completed hisfirst year of medical education at UND.With this fellowship, he conducted research on alopeciaareata, a scalp condition characterized by patches ofbaldness in affected areas, with Maria Hordinsky, M.D. 76,at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Hordinsky, anative of Drake, ND, is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs.Bohdan Hordinsky.Singh Nets Awards from NIH and NSFBrij Singh, Ph.D., assistant professor ofbiochemistry and molecular biology,Grand Forks, has received a five-year,$1.2 million grant from the NationalInstitutes of Health (NIH) to studycalcium's multiple, complex roles inhuman health and disease.Singh's research involves the studyof vital calcium mechanisms in thebody that can, when they don't workproperly, lead to diseases such as cancer, Parkinson's..disease and Sjorgens syndrome, a salivary gland dysfunction.The former NIH researcher has also received a threeyear,$405,000 grant from theNational Science Foundation(NSF) to pursue related research that could define themechanism and regulation of these channels, which maylead to tools that could quickly, accurately andnoninvasively diagnose an individual's chances of gettingcancer and other diseases related to calcium signalingdysfunction."Everything you do requires calcium," says Singh. "Evensomething as simple as lifting a pencil requires a veryspecific calcium balance." If that calcium mechanism getsout of whack, things can go seriously wrong in the body,he says."When the calcium transport channel gets out ofbalance -- and we're not sure why that happens -- then thebody goes into a disease state. That can be Alzheimer's,Parkinson's, heart disease - they're all related to a calciumdeficiency - or cancer, which can result when too muchcalcium is released.""The NIH grant is very prestigious and extremely hardto get," says Gene Homandberg,Ph.D., professor and chairof biochemistry, Grand Forks. Singh's RO1 grant was rankedin the 2.5 percentile, a level that "no one in North Dakotahas ever gotten.""It is almost unheard of " for a researcher to obtainawards from both the NIH and the NSF, Homandberg says."It's a clear testament to the high regard in which Dr.Singh's peers and other NIH and NSF scientists hold hiswork."ND OPPORTUNITIESThis feature offers information for physicians and other health care professionals interested in practice opportunities in NorthDakota. For more information about these listings or loan repayment programs, please contact Mary Amundson, M.A., at701-777-4018 or mamundsn@medicine.nodak.edu.This is a partial list; for the complete list, go to: http://www.ndmedicine.org.NORTH DAKOTA MEDICINE Fall 2006 27
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