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Lynette Dickson, MS, LRD

Lynette Dickson is the program director for the State Office of Rural Health (SORH) Grant Program at the Center for Rural Health at the University of North Dakota (UND), School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, ND. She has held this position since February 2003.

The SORH grant program is sponsored by the Health Resource Services and Administration-Office of Rural Health Policy. In her position she directs the North Dakota Blue Cross Blue Shield Rural Health Outreach Grant program and is co-director of the Critical Access Hospital, health information technology (HIT) Network Implementation Grant which provides support for rural HIT projects. She serves as the planning committee chair for the Annual Dakota Conference on Rural and Public Health and also serves as the chair of the North Dakota HIT Steering Committee. In addition, as part of the core function of the SORH grant program, she assists communities with grant development process, strategic planning, program development, and organizational coordination.

Dickson presently serves as President for the National Organization of State Office of Rural Health.

Prior to coming to the Center for Rural Health, she worked as the area program manager for the American Diabetes Association–North Dakota office for seven years. She was involved as a volunteer and served as director of Camp Sioux, a summer camp for children diagnosed with diabetes, for nine years.

Dickson received her Master of Science degree in nutrition and dietetics from North Dakota States University in Fargo and her Bachelor of Science degree in food and nutrition from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. She is a licensed registered dietitian.

Established in 1980, the Center for Rural Health is one of the nation's most experienced rural health organizations. It has developed a full complement of programs to assist researchers, educators, policymakers, health care providers and, most importantly, rural residents to address changing rural environments by identifying and researching rural health issues, analyzing health policy, strengthening local capabilities, developing community-based alternatives, and advocating for rural concerns.

Contact Information:

Tel: (701) 777-6049
Email: ldickson@medicine.nodak.edu
Web site: http://ruralhealth.und.edu

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  • Blue Cross/Blue Shield Rural Health Grant Program -- Supports individual organizations or organization/community coalitions working collaboratively through innovative programming to strengthen North Dakota’s rural health system through the use of health information technology (HIT).
  • Evaluation of Blue Cross/Blue Shield Rural Health Grant Projects -- The purpose of this project is to work with the BCBSND grantees to evaluate their grant projects.
  • FCC Rural Pilot Program -- Will construct a high-speed data network, Health Care Research & Education Network, to connect the UNDSMHS's four main campus sites and its own clinical medical sites to several rural health care facilities in North Dakota.
  • State Office of Rural Health -- A federal-state partnership to help rural communities build their health care services through public and private partnerships and initiatives in rural health development.

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