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"Before anything can happen on the patient level, it has to happen on the lab side first."

While Sanford Health's internship program started with a focus on nurses, it has since expanded to include nonclinical areas.

"You never know what’s going to come through your door next.”

A journey from tiny college in Missouri to large research team in SD

Variety of experiences helped her find her research specialty

Future researcher and doctor finds lab close to home

"My kids and I have watched it quite a bit and they have always said I should go on the show."

Letter from one of her care givers provided inspiration. "I get to see patients over and over again and establish that connection."

“Rather than living in a bubble in one facility, you see the world is a much bigger place."

Walter Frank, M.D., was a pioneer of cardiology at Sanford Health in Bismarck, North Dakota. He joined what was then Bismarck Hospital in 1979 and over the next 34 years helped establish the first modern catheterization lab as well as nuclear cardiology, cardiac rehabilitation and other lifesaving heart programs. “It was a lot of work, […]