UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences announces student, faculty, and medical resident award winners

GRAND FORKS, N.D.—The University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) presented a number of awards to its graduating medical students and the School’s faculty and other community volunteers during its Commencement festivities on May 3 and 4, including the Dean’s Special Recognition Awards for Outstanding Volunteer Faculty.

Of the roughly 1,700 physicians in North Dakota, more than 1,300 have voluntary clinical faculty appointments at the SMHS, said Joshua Wynne, M.D., M.B.A., M.P.H., vice president for health affairs and dean of the SMHS. UND’s medical school – the only M.D.-granting school between Minneapolis and Washington state – leads all North American medical schools in such community appointments.

“As a community-based institution, the School could not carry out its educational mission without the dedication and sacrifice of our voluntary faculty members,” Wynne added. “We are fortunate to have many dedicated physicians from across North Dakota who teach. These physicians have gone above and beyond the call of duty in giving our students the benefit of their time, experience, knowledge, and wisdom gained from years of caring for patients.”

The winners of the Dean’s Special Recognition Awards for Outstanding Volunteer Faculty were:

Southwest Campus (Bismarck)

• Erica Hofland, M.D., Ob/Gyn, Sanford Health
• Evan Kastner, M.D., M.S., Internal Medicine/Hospitalist, Sanford Health
• Ana Tobiasz, M.D., Ob/Gyn, Sanford Health

Southeast Campus (Fargo)

• Rajendra Potluri, M.D., Hospitalist, Sanford Health
• Mallory Skorheim, D.O., Psychiatry, Sanford Health

Northeast Campus (Grand Forks)

• Laura Lizakowski, M.D., Internal Medicine/Palliative Medicine, Altru Health System
• Robin Severud, M.D., Anesthesiology, Altru Health System

Northwest Campus (Minot)

• Virginia Keaveny, M.D., Emergency Medicine, Trinity Health
• Roggie Reason, M.D., Internal Medicine, Trinity Health

Rural Opportunities in Medical Education (ROME)

• Robert Ross, M.D., Family Medicine, Ortonville Area Health Services, Ortonville, Minn.
• Joel Schock, M.D., Family Medicine, Plains Medical Clinic (Fargo, N.D.)

The graduating medical student class also selected the following outstanding physicians-teachers at each campus:

• Timothy Pansegrau, M.D., Clinical Associate Professor Surgery, Southwest Campus
• Laura Nichols, M.D., Clinical Associate Professor Internal Medicine, Southeast Campus
• Sunil Kartham, M.D., Clinical Assistant Professor Internal Medicine, Northeast Campus
• Virginia Keaveny, M.D., Clinical Assistant Professor Emergency Medicine, Northwest Campus

Awards given to graduating medical students included:

North Dakota Medical Association Awards  

• Timothy Colwell
• Riley Madigan
• Abigail Smith

North Dakota Medical Association Alliance Award

• Dakota Brown
• Riley Larsen

North Dakota District Medical Society Awards  

• First District (Fargo): Mitchell Gullickson, Zachary Mohs, and Tyler Safgren
• Third District (Grand Forks): Ken Ryan
• Fourth District (Minot): Dakota Brown
• Sixth District (Bismarck): Samuel Wilke

University Alumni Special Awards  

• Madison Burgard
• Megan Corn
• Ajdin Ekic

North Dakota Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians Scholarship Award

• Jessica Zola

Dr. Mike Schlosser Emergency Medicine Scholarship

• Dakota Brown

Dr. John Wahl Memorial Rural Health Scholarship Endowment Award  

• Zachary Sebens

Kokila and Raman Patel, M.D., Family Practice Award                    

• Ken Ryan

Dr. Frank E. Stinchfield Award, academically outstanding student   

• Timothy Colwell

George and Margaret Seaworth Scholarship Endowment Award

• Dakota Snustad

Dr. Nadim and Rola Kanafani Koleilat Award  

• Timothy Colwell

The Welsh Award  

• Emily Hao

Robert C. Painter, M.D., Internal Medicine Award

• Ellen Erie

Lloyd S. Ralston, M.D., Memorial Endowment Award

• Zachary Mohs

Dr. Louis B. and Thelma K. Silverman Medical Award  

• Madeline Klein

Tiongson Humanities Award

• Morgan Thomas

Altru Clinic Senior Medical Student Fund Award  

• Megan Corn
• Aishwarya Sharma
• Dakota Snustad

Preceptor Recognition Student Scholarship (given this year in honor of Dr. Erika Stein)

• Miriah Forness

Glasgow-Rubin Award from the American Medical Women’s Association

• Julia Dworsky
• Ellen Erie
• Riley Madigan
• Abigail Smith

American College of Physicians – Department of Internal Medicine Mack V. Traynor Award

• Ajdin Ekic

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Senior Award

• Megan Corn
• Julia Dworsky

Department of Pathology Senior Awards

• Andrea Kelsch
• Holly Mitzel
• Marissa Wold

Bradley Neil Meyer, M.D., Diagnostic Radiology Award  

• Alex Johnson
• Covey Wong

Department of Surgery Senior Award  

• Timothy Colwell

Michael Kaspari Recovery Award

• Foley Schreier

Richard P. Stadter Excellence in Psychiatry Award

• Torrin Poss

Joy M. Query Prize for Social and Behavioral Science

• Mitchell Gullickson

William Crozier and Edith Magwood Fawcett Faculty Enhancement Award

• Catherine Brissette, Ph.D.

Reverend Elmer and Min West Memorial Faculty Award

• Jon Allen, M.D.

President Charles E. Kupchella Preventative Medicine and Wellness Award

• Michelle Montgomery, M.S.W.
• Melissa Naslund, Ph.D.

David Wilson, M.D., Academic Award in Neuroscience

• Xuesong Chen, Ph.D.

School of Medicine & Health Sciences Faculty Excellence Endowment Award

• Kumi Nagamoto-Combs, Ph.D.

The Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Awards

• Faculty Awardee: Avish Nagpal, M.D.
• Student Awardee: Jordan Krieg

The Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Recognition

• Nathaniel Albrecht
• Timothy Colwell
• Megan Corn
• Danielle Dearing
• Megan DeVillers
• Ellen Erie
• Madeline Klein
• Jordan Krieg
• Torrin Poss
• Stephanie Ziegler

Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society Recognition

• Madison Burgard
• Timothy Colwell
• Megan Corn
• Ellen Erie
• Mitchell Gullickson
• Emily Hao
• Riley Madigan
• Zachary Mohs
• Jonathan Roberts
• Tyler Safgren
• Aishwarya Sharma
• Abigail Smith
• Dakota Snustad
• Samuel Wilke

Alpha Omega Alpha Faculty Recognition

• Ana Tobiasz, M.D.
• John Bassett, M.D.
• Erik Heitkamp, M.D.

Alpha Omega Alpha Resident Recognition

• Chloe Ree, M.D.
• Brock Ashmore, M.D.
• Ryan Beard, M.D.
• Anya DeLeeuw, M.D.

Congratulations to all award winners.

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Brian James Schill
Director, Office of Alumni & Community Relations
UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences
701.777.6048 direct | 701.777.4305 office
brian.schill@UND.edu  |  www.und.edu