Minnesota news

A study conducted by Mayo Clinic in partnership with The Links, Incorporated, a national service organ-ization of professional African American women, was recently published in[...]

By Sumedha G. Penheiter • July 18, 2018

  Kathryn Ruddy, MD, chair of Mayo Clinic Cancer Center’s Survivorship Disease Group, led a recently published study which determined not only that breast cancer[...]

By Sumedha G. Penheiter • June 26, 2018

Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness, a traveling exhibition prepared by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, will[...]

By Sumedha G. Penheiter • May 23, 2018

Join the Office of Health Disparities Research (OHDR) for a special research presentation by Southside Community Health Services (“Southside”), which provides medical and dental services[...]

By Sumedha G. Penheiter • March 24, 2017

Mayo Clinic health disparities researchers and diversity leaders will present at the Forum on Workplace Inclusion’s Annual Conference, which will take place March 29–31, 2016,[...]

By Sumedha G. Penheiter • February 8, 2016

The Rochester Branch of the NAACP awarded LaPrincess Brewer, M.D., its “Nancy Hart Meritorious Service Award” at its 2015 Freedom Fund Banquet on October 24,[...]

By Sumedha G. Penheiter • November 2, 2015

The Mayo Clinic Office of Health Disparities Research (OHDR) is pleased to announce four awards for 2016 pilot research projects. The OHDR provides seed funding[...]

By Sumedha G. Penheiter • September 24, 2015

Mayo Clinic researchers Richard White, M.D., Community Internal Medicine, and Hadiya Guerrero, D.P.T, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, have been selected by the National Institute on[...]

By Sumedha G. Penheiter • July 10, 2015

OHDR’s Native American Research Outreach (NARO) team recently visited the Red Lake and White Earth reservations in Minnesota to facilitate preliminary data collection for a[...]

By Sumedha G. Penheiter • May 18, 2015

LaPrincess Brewer, M.D., M.P.H., an advanced cardiovascular disease fellow within the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at Mayo Clinic, was recently named the Dr. Jay Brown[...]

By Sumedha G. Penheiter • May 6, 2015