March 2023
Dr. Madhuri Rao received the 2023 Carolyn Reed Traveling Fellowship Award to study robotic lung segmentectomy for early-stage lung cancer. LEARN MORE>>
Division Chief of Computational Health Sciences Dr. Rui Zhang recently received a grant for $3.1M to develop first-of-its-kind informatics framework for reducing improper dietary supplement use. LEARN MORE>>
Second year medical students Maren Strootman and Bailey Van Eyll have been awarded the Student/Trainee Excellence Award by the 2023 UMN's Women's Health Research Conference for their poster, "Patient Satisfaction with Cervical Cancer Screening Communication: A quality improvement initiative with the Minneapolis VA Pap Hub." READ ABSTRACT>>
New faculty member Dr. Grishma Trivedi recently co-authored a research paper on the gram-negative bacteria Acinetobacter baumannii, the number one priority for developing more antibiotic options per the CDC and WHO. This organism can cause life-threatening infections, is highly resistant to antibiotic treatment and occurs in veteran populations and ICUs.
The University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus, has the distinction of having graduated the second largest number of Native American or Indigenous medical professionals in the nation. Its graduates have gone on to take leadership roles in Native health programs, like Dr. Mary Owen in Duluth, and Dr. Erik Brodt at the Oregon Health & Science University and Dr. Jason Dean at the University of Washington. READ MORE>>
On February 23, Dr. Genevieve Melton-Meaux spoke on an 830 WCCO podcast with Chad Hartman about the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare today. She recently received $1.4 million in research funding to develop risk management processes for clinical AI and machine learning to optimize continual patient safety and improve trust in these innovations. LISTEN NOW>>
Our teaching hospitals, M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Medical Center (UMMC) and M Health Fairview Masonic Children’s Hospital, are renowned across the region as premiere sites for complex and empathetic care. In these facilities, our teams build on the University of Minnesota’s legacy and leadership in cancer care, cardiovascular surgery, and solid organ transplants- while also training 70% of the state's future healthcare workforce.
It doesn't matter if a disease is rare if it happens to someone you care about. Four years ago, Brock Groh was diagnosed with a rare degenerative genetic disorder, adrenoleukodystrophy. He received a cord blood transplant and is now living normal life as a nine-year-old. Because Brock's doctor, Troy Lund, is also a researcher working on more effective treatments and outcomes for children with the disorder, Brock's family helped start X out ALD to raise funds for the UMN Leukodystrophy Research Center.
This fall, the University of Minnesota (U of M) Medical School’s Experimental Surgical Services Laboratory (ESS) celebrated its 40th anniversary. Housed within the Department of Surgery, ESS is the only public pre-clinical research center in the country, and is at the forefront of medical research, pushing the boundaries of what is possible in the field of surgery by testing and perfecting medical devices and surgical techniques before they go to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for commercial approval.
