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Elizabeth A. Burns, MD, MA
Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Dr. Burns, a Professor in the UND SMHS Department of Family and Community Medicine, currently directs the North Dakota Women’s Health CORE, a National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health Region VIII Demonstration Project at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She is also the Medical Director for the UND SMHS Physician Assistant Program. Prior to joining the faculty at UND, she was a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Medicine for ten years, serving as Department Chair for 8 years. She has also taught at the University of Iowa College of Medicine (1981-1992).
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Jonathan Geiger, Ph.D.
Born and raised in Syracuse, New York, Dr. Geiger came to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1982 to conduct post-doctoral training with Dr. Frank LaBella in the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics. In 1984 he accepted an appointment as Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Manitoba. In 1989 he was promoted to Associate Professor and in 1994 he was promoted to full Professor. In 1999, he founded and until 2003 was the Director of the Division of Neurovirology and Neurodegenerative Disorders at the St. Boniface Hospital Research Centre. In 2003, he moved back the USA where he is Chair of the Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Therapeutics at the University of North Dakota and Principal Investigator on a $10,000,000 neuroscience center development grant.
Dr. Geiger has maintained a productive research program that has been continuously funded by local, national and international agencies. The work of Dr. Geiger has attracted widespread attention and interest and he has won a number of awards for his work including Scholarship and Scientist awards from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Dr. Geiger's research is focused on determining underlying mechanisms and potential therapeutic interventions for sleep disorders and against neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease, stroke, HIV-1 dementia and traumatic brain injury. Dr. Geiger's research is supported by grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (U.S.A.) and the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (U.S.A.) and the National Institutes on Aging (U.S.A.).
Dr. Geiger has received two University of Manitoba Presidential Outreach awards for his work related to drug use by athletes and sport enthusiasts. In May 2000, he co-founded the Centre for Substance Use in Sport and Health (SUSH), a federally funded not-for-profit organization. Dr. Geiger continues to serve on a number of local, national and international committees and advisory Boards.
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Thomas Hill, Ph.D.
Professor Microbiology and Immunology
Dr. Hill teaches the virology section of the medical curriculum at UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He has won several teaching awards from the medical students, including the Golden Apple and Portrait awards. His research interests are directed at the ability of bacteria to survive exposure to antibiotics and understanding the terminal steps of the DNA replication cycle in E. coli. Past funding for his research has been provided by the National Institutes of Health, The National Science Foundation, and the American Cancer Society.
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Eric L. Johnson, MD
Altru Clinic - Family Medicine Center
Eric L. Johnson, MD, is a family practice physician and assistant director of Altru Diabetes Center at Altru Health System and Assistant Professor of Community Medicine at the UND School of Medicine and Health Science. He graduated from the University of Nebraska, Omaha and completed his residency in family practice at the Fargo Family Practice Center. He is board certified by the American Board of Family Practice. He is a member of the American Diabetes Association, American Academy of Family Practice, and American Medical Association.
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Kirby Kruger
Director, Division of Disease Control
Kirby Kruger joined the North Dakota Department of Health in 1989 as an HIV educator and became the injury surveillance coordinator in 1990. In 1991, he was named program manager for the sexually transmitted disease and general communicable disease program. In 2000, he assumed duties as the Division of Disease Control's senior epidemiologist. He was named state epidemiologist and division director in 2005. A native of New Salem, N.D., Kruger earned a bachelors degree from North Dakota State University and Certificate of Public Health from Emory University.
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Barbara Knight, MA, MLS
Head of Public Services, Harley E. French Library of the Health Sciences
EDUCATION
- BS - Library Science and Elementary Education, Morningside College, Sioux City, IA
- MA – Education, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota
- Post Graduate Study, Adult & Higher Education, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota
- Post Graduate Study, School of Library and Information Management, Emporia State University, Kansas
CAREER
- Head of Public Services, Harley E. French Library of the of the Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks
- Reference-User Education Librarian, Harley E. French Library of the Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
- Reference & User Education Librarian, Harley E. French Library of the Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
- Part-time Faculty, School of Library and Information Management, Emporia State University, Kansas
- Director of the Angus Cameron Medical Library, Trinity Medical Center, Minot, North Dakota and Northwest Clinical Campus Librarian, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
- Information Broker, Grandview Health Resources, Sioux City, Iowa
- Technical Services Manager, St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center, Sioux City, Iowa
- Library-Media Coordinator, St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center, Sioux City, Iowa
- Librarian, St. Luke's School of Nursing, Sioux City, Iowa
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David R. McNamara, M.D.
Infectious Diseases Division, MeritCare Health System
Education/Training:
• M.D., Loyola University Chicago, 1996
• Internal Medicine Residency, Bassett Healthcare, Cooperstown, NY
• National Health Service Corps: Federal Bureau of Prisons, Federal Medical Center, Rochester, MN
• Infectious Diseases Fellowship, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Dr. McNamara is involved in: the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Diseases Society of America
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Dr. Ron Miller
Dr. Ron Miller is a board certified pediatrician at MeritCare Health System, Fargo, North Dakota. He is a pediatrician specializing in the health care needs of infants, children and adolescents. He directs the SIDS/Apnea program and the Child Abuse program at MeritCare and is the managing physician partner of MeritCare's Children's Hospital. Dr. Miller received his medical degree from University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City. He completed his 3-year pediatric residency and was chief resident at Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Linda Olson, Ed.D.
Dr. Olson received her doctoral degree in education from the University of North Dakota and is an Associate Professor of Community Medicine and Special Projects Director for the University of North Dakota (UND) School of Medicine and Health Sciences Office of Medical Education. She is also the director of BORDERS Alert and Ready, a training and continuing education program designed to improve the ability of health and human service professionals to prepare for and respond to acts of bioterrorism and/or catastrophic events.
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Jeffrey R. Ryan, Ph.D.
Dr. Jeff Ryan is a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel with an extensive background in preventive medicine, epidemiology, clinical trials and diagnostics development. Dr. Ryan also served in the private sector working for a biotech company, Cepheid, where he was a senior business developer and Manager for their biothreat government business program. Dr. Ryan has authored more than 40 scientific, peer-reviewed journal articles and is the lead instructor and co-developer of the Pandemic Influenza Planning and Preparedness course, which is taught at the Center for Domestic Preparedness (DHS) in Anniston, AL. He recently authored the textbook Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Containing and Preventing the Biological Threat. In addition, he co-authored and edited Pandemic Influenza: Emergency Planning and Community Preparedness. Currently, Dr. Ryan serves as an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Emergency Preparedness, Jacksonville State University. His specialty areas include biosecurity, biodefense, medical aspects of emergency management, homeland security planning and preparedness and terrorism studies.
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Sharon C. Wilsnack, Ph.D.
Sharon Carlson Wilsnack received her M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Harvard University and studied as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Freiburg, Federal Republic of Germany. She is presently Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor in the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Dr. Wilsnack's background includes experience as a substance abuse therapist and treatment program director as well as in research and medical education. She has published extensively on issues related to substance abuse in women, and has addressed numerous national and international audiences. She is co-editor with Linda Beckman of the volume Alcohol Problems in Women: Antecedents, Consequences, and Intervention (New York: Guilford Press, 1984) and with Richard Wilsnack of Gender and Alcohol: Individual and Social Perspectives (Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies, 1997).
Sharon Wilsnack and Richard Wilsnack direct a 20-year longitudinal study of drinking behavior in U.S. women, and coordinate an international collaborative research project on gender and alcohol which involves researchers from more than 40 countries. Sharon Wilsnack is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. She served as a member of the Institute of Medicine's Committee to Study Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, as a member of the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism/National Institutes of Health, and on numerous other boards and advisory groups concerned with alcohol abuse and women=s health. She was a member and panel chair of the Task Force on College Drinking of NIAAA=s National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and a member of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment's Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) Consensus Panel on Special Needs of Women in Substance Abuse Treatment. She is presently a member of the National Advisory Committee, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
She is married to sociologist Richard Wilsnack and is the mother of five children.
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