Programming
2026
Basics of Canine Urgent Care
January 20th, 2026 • 5:00 pm | O'Kelly Hall, Room 343
Dr. Iverson and the All Pets Hospital team will discuss common emergent/urgent care scenarios and what to do in specific situations. We will outline items you should keep on hand in an emergency kit and situations that require emergency care. We will discuss how to limit emergency visits, demonstrate how check vitals, basic wound care, and bandage application. Other topics include heat stroke, eye emergencies, kennel cough, vomiting, and diarrhea.
Cost $10 - Open to all community members
Instructor Background:
Steph Iverson, from Hatton, ND, is a veterinarian at All Pet's Hospital who has started providing urgent care services to the Grand Forks area. Dr. Iverson completed her undergraduate degrees (biology, chemistry and biotechnology) at Northern State University in Aberdeen, SD. She was then accepted to the veterinary medicine program at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. After graduating in 2020, she worked in Crosby, MN for 4 years where she practiced as a general practitioner (small animal & equine), which included a high volume of emergency cases. She is excited to help your pets, educate owners and be back in the Grand Forks area.
The Role of AI in Health Care
Date and time TBA | Location TBA
The potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to transform every aspect of our world is becoming increasingly evident, perhaps nowhere more so than health care. AI has the power to efficiently process data far beyond our own capacity, reducing the burden on health care providers and freeing up more time for patient engagement. The real power of AI to transform health care, however, may lie in the use of “supervised learning” to create deep learning models and neural networks that can find patterns that humans can’t see. Some of these patterns, derived from huge datasets, can detect diseases like cancer much earlier than is possible now, and can predict risk far better. This can potentially translate to thousands of lives saved.
But the promise of AI does not come without challenges, especially in health care. How much of what we hear is hype, how much is fear of change, and what are the real risks involved? Can AI that is developed in one part of the country be safely used in another with different patient populations? What can we do to prevent or remediate bias? Drawing on current, real-world examples in areas like patient diagnosis and treatment, mortality and disease progression prediction, and radiographic imaging, this presentation will provide answers to these questions and illustrate how AI is already being used to transform the health care sector.
FREE - Open to all community members
Instructor Backgrounds:
Richard Van Eck is the founding Dr. David and Lola Rognlie Monson Endowed Chair in Medical Education and Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS). His faculty development and research activities focus on evidence-based teaching, innovative teaching methods, games and learning, artificial intelligence, and telehealth. He provides support to the MD program on curriculum design, evaluation, micro-credentialing. Rick has a PhD in instructional design from the University of South Alabama, serves as the principal investigator (PI) on the American Medical Association’s Innovation grant (gamification for competency-based medical education) and previously served as the PI on the AMA Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium projects on interprofessional telemedicine simulation. A frequent keynote speaker, presenter, and author of research on serious games, Rick has edited two volumes on interdisciplinary approaches to serious games and presented at TEDx Manitoba and SXSW.