Posts Tagged 'Medical School'

Joycelyn Dorscher, M.D., director of UMD’s Center of American Indian and Minority Health, was honored on Nov. 2 by the Duluth YWCA as a Woman of Distinction.
Dorscher was very pleased to receive the award. “It was a huge honor just to be nominated,” she said. Referring to her two-minute acceptance speech at the awards luncheon she noted, “I really tried to thank everybody. So many people have encouraged me throughout my career. Dr. Bob Powless, Dr. Lorentz Wittmers, and ...

Alan M. Johns, MD, MEd. was a member of the first class of UMD medical students who started their studies in the fall of 1972.  Alan is the beloved son of a librarian and a career army officer and moved to Duluth with his parents when he was in seventh grade.  After completing his public high school education he went to the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus to study chemical engineering.  Encouraged by professors at the newly opening medical school ...