Medical School Dean's Hour to focus on sex and gender on health in space “Impact of Sex and Gender on Health in Space” is the title of the next Dean’s Hour at noon Monday, Sept. 18, at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Saralyn Mark, physician consultant to NASA, will present the talk, which is free and open to the public, in the Reed Keller Auditorium at the medical school’s Wold Center, 501 North Columbia Road. Lunch will be provided for all attendees. An endocrinologist and a geriatrician with academic appointments at both Yale University and Georgetown University medical schools, Dr. Mark works to bring together health care organizations and scientific agencies to increase their focus on the issues of sex- and gender- based medicine and women’s health on earth and in space. The presentation will be broadcast at the following video conference sites: Southeast Campus room 225, Southwest Campus conference room A and Northwest Campus office. It can also be viewed on the medical school’s web page at http://www.med.und.nodak.edu/depts/mit/webcast/dean.html and through Internet video conferencing on desktop computers through the medical school’s CRISTAL Recorder (call 701-777-2329 for details). The Dean’s Hour Lecture Series is a forum for the discussion of health care, medicine, research, education and related issues of the day. For more information, please contact the Office of the Dean at 777-2514. -- Amanda Scurry, public information specialist, UND SMHS, ascurry@medicine.nodak.edu, 701-777-0871