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Women’s Health Conference
Women participated in many fun fitness activities at the annual Women’s Health Connection sponsored in part by the UND medical school this fall at UND. Sandra Short, PhD, UND professor of physical education (left), delivered the keynote presentation, “Tools for Living Well”.
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Flu Shot
UND President Robert Kelley receives his flu shot recently while visiting the UND Center for Family Medicine-Bismarck.
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Malpractice Bowl
Competition between the medical and law schools was fierce at the annual Malpractice Bowl. Women med students won (6-0); the men lost by a hair (13-12)
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Allen Van Beek, MD
Internationally recognized plastic and reconstructive surgeon, Allen Van Beek, MD (BS Med ’66), (center) received the Sioux Award, the highest honor bestowed by the UND Alumni Association, during Homecoming activities this fall. The Westfield, ND, native became the focus of worldwide attention in 1992 for successful replanting surgeries on John Thompson (right) whose arms were severed in a machinery accident at the family farm near Hurdsfield, ND. The surgeon has said that his greatest challenge was reattaching a newborn’s two fingers which were cut off during an emergency cesarean-section birth nearly 20 years ago; that patient, Kristen Meckle, is also pictured.
Van Beek, who is in private practice specializing in hand and microsurgery at Centennial Lakes Medical Center in Minneapolis, also gave a talk, “Handing Back Options,” at the UND medical school during his visit to UND, and was honored at a reception hosted by the school. He is a long-standing member and past president of The American Association for Hand Surgery.
A clinical associate professor of surgery at the University of Minnesota medical school, he is a major force for developing microsurgery expertise in the Twin Cities. In 2003, he committed a year as president of the Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation, the research arm of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, to promoting e-learning and e-communication for plastic surgeons to continue improving their skills and expertise.
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