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101 Great Falls Area Chamber of Commerce www.greatfallschamber.org M E D I C A L Wherever life takes you, Logan Health is ready to provide local, expert care. We take pride in our skilled medical teams who offer the full spectrum of primary and specialty services. Whether you need walk-in or lifelong care, we are equipped to help you embrace all of life's adventures. Advancing Medicine. Enhancing Care. logan.org Here for your health. From Butte to Billings, Havre to Hebgen, we tirelessly enhance communities with electricity and natural gas, ensuring reliable service, fostering growth, and promoting energy efficiency. Our commitment extends to reducing emissions with a goal of reaching net zero, driven by a passion for community welfare and a vision to deliver a bright future. a future for themselves right here in Montana. This in turn will diversify Montana's economy as well as improve human health including in previously underserved segments of our population." The CIB-RHR also includes faculty and students in the state of Montana's only nonprofi t medical school, the Touro COM- MT. The Touro University System enrolls >19,000 students, with nearly 8,000 students in the medical and health sciences, making Touro one of the largest healthcare educational systems in the U.S. Their overall goal is to expand programs that prime students and faculty for successful careers, and to serve underserved regions of the United States. TouroCOM-MT was accredited and broke ground on the new medical school in Great Falls, Montana, in 2022 and the fi rst class matriculated in August 2023. CIB-RHR funding will provide new research opportunities for faculty and students at TouroCOM-MT with an emphasis on medicine in underserved communities. Notably, approximately 55% of former Touro system graduates practice in underserved communities. As noted by Dr. Elizabeth Palmarozzi, Dean of TouroCOM-MT "We look forward to providing our students and faculty more research opportunities through the CIB-RHR. TouroCOM-MT is dedicated to increasing the opportunities for research for medical students whether the research is basic, preclinical and/or clinical with opportunities to explore development, genetic underpinnings, diagnosis, and treatment of health conditions that are especially of concern and/or prevalence in rural environments (neurodegeneration, behavioral health, metabolic disease), and research areas vastly underrepresented in Montana (behavioral health, women's health, bioinformatics/rural data, healthcare aff ordability and access). The CIB-RHR will contribute to this training hub for faculty, physicians and students." As noted by Dr. Reijo Pera in the NIH application: "This Center may be considered non-traditional as the home for the CIB-RHR is a nonprofi t research institute, outside the traditional university system. We believe that this is a strength. The McLaughlin Research Institute and TouroCOM-MT in Great Falls, MT, provide a unique setting for expansion of the research enterprise beyond current geographical boundaries and scientifi c themes in Montana. There are few opportunities that match this one, in regard to distribution of the scientifi c research enterprise, in Montana or across rural communities in the United States. It is a real testament to the strength of the biomedical enterprise in Great Falls." Please note: The research center described in this press release was supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the offi cial views of the National Institutes of Health.