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Two nice pieces of news this week for the Med School...UND awarded $4.98 million for SIM–ND | 08 | 2012 | News | School of Medicine & Health Sciences | The University of North Dakota

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust has awarded the ND STAR (North Dakota Simulation, Teaching and Research) Center for Healthcare Education at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences a $4.98 million grant to bring mobile simulation education to rural North Dakota. The new program, called SIM-ND (Simulation in Motion-North Dakota), will provide education and training in medical-trauma events to help providers in the state deliver high-quality health care in the safest way possible.

Four large trucks with custom-made classrooms will be stationed in Grand Forks, Fargo, Bismarck and Minot. A three-person crew from each of the state's six major hospital systems (Altru Health System, Essentia Health, Sanford Health in Fargo and Bismarck, St. Alexius Medical Center and Trinity Health) will be teaching in each mobile simulation unit. ND STAR will train the educators, manage the operation of all four mobile simulation units, schedule all programming for the units, and provide ongoing monitoring, evaluation and development. The North Dakota Department of Health will provide oversight of the entire project.

NIH awards $5.1 million to UND to continue biomedical research excellence | 08 | 2012 | News | School of Medicine & Health Sciences | The University of North Dakota

The National Institutes of Health awarded $5.1 million to the Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences. This five-year grant marks the second time this grant was renewed on its first attempt and brings to 15 the total number of years NIH will have supported UND's world-class neuroscientists through this funding mechanism. The NIH is the nation's medical research center and is the largest source of funding for medical research in the world.

In 2002, the UND COBRE for Neurodegenerative Disorder Research was originally funded for $10.4 million, and in 2007, UND's COBRE funding was renewed for an additional five years at $10.1 million.