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MARK A. STRAND
2208 25th Ave South, Fargo, ND, 58103
Mobile: 86-139-3542-3227 (international mobile)
Email: [email protected]
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
§ Adept at integrating clinical medicine with community-based practice to
improve population health
§ Expertise and active research in the public health core competencies of
Epidemiology and Social and Behavioral Science, with program expertise in
health promotion practice in a global context.
§ Extensive experience in quantitative/qualitative mixed methods research and
student advising
§ Effective teaching style which is participatory and problem-based resulting in
student evaluations that are consistently high.
§ Currently director of an organization with 65 staff, three offices and 14
projects in 4 disciplines.
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT DENVER
August 2000 – October 2004
PhD - Health and Behavioral Science
Denver, CO. USA
Research Advisor: David Tracer, PhD
3.99 GPA (scale of 4)
Coursework: Epidemiology, Nutrition, Statistics, International Health, Research Methods, Questionnaire
Design, Theory of Health and Human Behavior, Research Design, Human Ecology.
XINZHOU TEACHERS COLLEGE
Intensive Chinese language instruction.
Advisor: Professor Yu Heping
Achieved level 7 (scale of 8) on the HSK Chinese Language Placement Exam.
October 1991 – June 1994
Xinzhou, Shanxi. China
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
September 1988 – May 1991
Master of Science Degree - Cell and Developmental Biology
Minneapolis, MN. USA
Research Advisor: Charles Louis, PhD
3.22 GPA (scale of 4)
Coursework: Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Cell Signaling, Gene Transfer, Developmental
Biology.
LUTHER COLLEGE
Bachelor of Arts Degree - Biology, Teaching Certificate
3.43 GPA (scale of 4)
WORK EXPERIENCE
NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY
Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice
§ Course instructor
§ Academic advising for professional and MPH students
§ Active research program
August 1981 – May 1985
Decorah, IA. USA
July 2012 – Present
Fargo, North Dakota
SHANXI EVERGREEN SERVICE
April 2007 – July 2012
China Director and Public Health Director
Yuci, Shanxi. China
§ Cultivate vision-building and leadership development
§ Guide organizational expansion
§ Working with the Chinese health bureau to establish effective primary health care systems through
health promotion and chronic disease management
§ Successfully advised 14 students in public health internships (listed below)
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Advance organizational mission by liaising with government partners in China such as Ministry of
Health, Centers for Disease Control, Labor Bureau and Foreign Affairs Bureau
SHANXI EVERGREEN SERVICE
July 1994 – 2007
Chief Operations Officer (2003) and Medical Programs Officer
Yuci, Shanxi. China
§ Project design and implementation
§ Designing and implementing public health research, including infections disease among migrant
workers, and sustainable community-based chronic diseases management systems
§ Advising students from around the world in Shanxi Province
§ Building strong organizational communication in a highly diverse multilingual context
§ Garnering external support and guiding financial management
§ Staff development and training through participatory training methods
§ Writing in Chinese and serving as interpreter for short-term medical teams
§ Consultant to World Bank projects: Community Health Training, Health Status Among Farmers
Resettled from the Xiaolangdi Dam.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
I am a trained educator with rich teaching experience in a diversity of contexts. I have experience designing
participatory pedagogical methods. I have worked with teams to design curricula, and am currently serving as dean of
the public health stream for a medical continuing medical education scheme. Expertise in on-line teaching allows me to
teach students on-line all over the world.
NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY
2005 to present
Associate Graduate Faculty
Fargo, ND, USA
Department of Health, Nutrition and Exercise Science
§ Courses taught:
§ "Global Health Issues" (HNES 790) on-line graduate level course delivered through DCE
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"Global Threat of Infectious Disease” on-site graduate level course
§ “International Health” (HNES 355) on-line course delivered through DCE since 2005
§ “Wellness” (HNES 111) – on campus delivery, 2010
XINZHOU TEACHERS COLLEGE
English Language Instructor (Part-time)
September 1991 – June 1994
Xinzhou, China
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
March 1989 – August 1991
Teaching Assistant/Research Assistant in Biochemistry
Minneapolis, MN. USA
§ Laboratory with an emphasis on purification and biochemical characterization of the Ca2+-release
channel from cardiac muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum.
§ Teaching assistant in cell biology laboratory.
PATRICK HENRY HIGH SCHOOL
September 1987 – June 1988
Biology Instructor
Minneapolis, MN. USA
§ Taught two levels of high school biology, successfully motivating students to take an interest in science.
CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
August 1985 – June 1987
English Instructor and Teaching Team Administrator
Changchun, Jilin. China
§ Curriculum design and administrative oversight for a teaching team of 12 people in 4 universities
through Educational Services Exchange with China (ESEC)
SEMINARS AND GUEST LECTURING
§ "Healthy People or Healthy Communities: Do we have to choose?” Presentation given at the “Taste of
Tropical Medicine” conference at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
Oct 29-30, 2010
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"Global Alcohol Consumption Patterns: Disease and Public Policy.” Lecture at 65th Annual ASA
Meeting, Catholic University of America, Washington DC.
July 30-August 2, 2010
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Presentations given at the 6th China Foreign Professionals Medical Conference. Xiamen, Fujian
Province, China. "Adding Value to TB Control by Cooperating with China’s CDC.” “Epidemiology of
Metabolic Syndrome in Urban China.” Workshop convened: “Strategic Thinking About Medical Work
in China.”
March 11-14, 2010
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CMDA - Continuing Medical & Dental Education Conference XXX, Limuru, Kenya. Five lectures:
"Epidemiology Around Us," “Global Threats of Emerging Infectious Diseases,” “Climate Change and
Global Public Health,” “Reading and Interpreting Aggregate Health Data,” “Understanding Health
Behaviors”
February 2010
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CMDA - Continuing Medical & Dental Education Conference XXIX, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Five
lectures: "Epidemiology Around Us," “Global Threats of Emerging Infectious Diseases: Part II,”
“Climate Change and Global Public Health,” “Foreign Medical Institutions in Collaboration with
Asian Health Systems,” “Lessons from the History of Cross-cultural Medical Work”
February 2009
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"The Metabolic Syndrome: A Global Health Crisis” CME lecture presented (in Chinese) at Yangqu
People’s Hospital, Shanxi, China.
August 26, 2009
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"Effective Health Education through the Community Health Center” Presented (in Chinese) at Yuci
Prefecture Community Health Service Skills Training Course. Yuci, Shanxi, China.
April 7, 2008
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"TB Control: A model of local collaboration” Presented at the 5th China Foreign Professionals Medical
Conference. Xiamen, Fujian Province, China.
March 13-16, 2008
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"Utilization of Health Records for Health Promotion.” Presented (in Chinese) at Yuci Prefecture
Community Health Service Skills Training Course. Yuci, Shanxi Province, China.
Oct 26, 2007
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"Vitamin-D and Associated Nutrition Deficiencies Among Children in North China.” Presented (in
Chinese) at The Third China Children's Health Advance Forum, China Society of Preventive Medicine,
Children’s Health Section. Yichang, Hubei, China.
June 14-16, 2007
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"The Health Belief Model and Doctor-Patient Communication." Presented (in Chinese) to the staff of
the Shanxi Province Women and Children's Hospital Department of Pediatrics and Children's Health.
Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China.
April 27, 2007
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CMDA - Continuing Medical & Dental Education Conference XXVIII, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Four
lectures: "Clinical Research at the Community Level in Developing Countries," “Case Studies in
Applied Epidemiology,” “Global Threats of Emerging Infectious Diseases,” and “Enhancing NGO
Effectiveness through Collaboration with the Local Health System.” Led one Workshop: "Setting up
Your Research Project."
February 2007
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"Vitamin D-deficiency and Nutritional Rickets among Children in Rural North China." Presented at the
Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, ARS, USDA Grand Forks, ND.
January 23, 2007
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"Infectious Diseases among Migrant Workers in China." Colloquim at University of Colorado-Denver
in the Health and Behavioral Science department.
October 20, 2006
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"Principles of Infectious Disease." Presented at the Yuci, Shanxi Centers for Disease Control.
April 2006
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"Reasons for Nonadherence to Drug Therapy Among Chinese TB Patients." Presented (Chinese) at the
TB Prevention Training Course for Physicians and Pulmonologists held at the Taiyuan TB Hospital,
Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.
November 6, 2005
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"Introduction to HIV-AIDS." Presented to Yuci Young Adults and Professionals Club and Volunteers,
Yuci, Shanxi, China.
November 5, 2005
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"Rickets in Chinese Children and Related Illnesses." Presented (in Chinese) to the staff of the Shanxi
Province Women and Children's Hospital Department of Pediatrics and Children's Health. Taiyuan,
Shanxi Province, China.
July 28, 2005
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"Introduction to Public Health" Series. Presented at the Yuci, Shanxi Centers for Disease Control.
Topics: Trends in Global Health, Health Beliefs: TB as Case Study, Principles of Infectious Disease.
Yuci, China.
Spring 2005
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"Rickets in North China Children." University of Colorado at Denver class in "Global Health."
October 19, 2004
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“Can it be that rickets is still a health problem in the 21st century? A journey to North China.”
University of Colorado Health Science Center, Center for Human Nutrition, Nutrition Seminar Series.
December 12, 2002
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“Adaptation to Solar Radiation and Rickets.” University of Colorado at Boulder, Human Ecology.
February 27, 2001
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"Health in Rural China." Yale University, New Haven, CT, Yale-China Association, workshop on
Health Care in China: Changing Economics and Implications for International Collaboration.
July 2001
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“International Health Initiatives.” North Dakota State University, Department of Health, Recreation,
and Nutrition.
August 2000
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“Designing Health Initiatives Appropriate to the Community.” World Bank training seminar. Suzhou,
China.
March 1999
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“The Cobbler Program: Training Program for Rural Doctors in China.” Presentation given at the 3rd
Annual Canadian Conference on International Health. Ottawa, Canada.
October 1996
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Conducted in China
§ Prevalence of metabolic syndrome among middle-age urban Chinese
§ TB among migrant workers
§ Health beliefs of tuberculosis patients in China
§ Children’s health and nutrition.
§ Rickets prevention.
§ Defining poverty in rural north China.
§ Training methods appropriate to China
M.S. project
§ Characterization of porcine cardiac muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum ryanodine receptor.
§ Tissue harvesting and preparation; ligand binding, radioactive labeling with a cross-linker,
electrophoresis, ion flux studies, photography.
SUPPORTED RESEARCH AND PROJECTS
§ I have a successful track record of generating funding from grants and other sources. From 2003 to the
present I have been responsible for raising an average of $40,000 a year in research and project funds.
Some examples include:
• $90,000 raised in 2008 for the purchase of the Jinzhong Office for Evergreen
• $6000 Nestle Foundation, 2008, metabolic syndrome among Chinese urban populations
• $35,000 First Fruit, 2008, establishing Community Health Service in urban China
• $3000 Cedar Fund, Hong Kong, 2005, researching TB among migrant workers in China
• $26,000 Harry Lloyd Trust, 2003, establishment of branch office for Evergreen
• $26,000 Nestle Foundation, 2003, seminal research on rickets in China
OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES and MEMBERSHIPS
§ Member, American Public Health Association
§ Jinzhong Red Cross Committee Member (starting December 2005).
§ Shanxi Province Community Health Service Association Founding Committee Member (starting
January 2008).
§ Reviewer for Maternal and Child Health Journal (published by Springer).
§ CMDE Committee Member, Annual Medical Training Faculty Member, Dean of the Public Health
Stream beginning February 2010.
§ Founding Member of Chinese Foreign Professionals Medical Group (2000)
PUBLICATIONS
§ Strand, M.A., Perry, JL, Wang, P, Liu, SF, and Lynn, Henry. (2011). “The epidemiology of metabolic
syndrome in an urban north China population age 44-52.” Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health. (In
press)
§ Strand, M.A., Perry, JL, Wang, P. (2011). “The epidemiology and health outcomes of alcohol
consumption among urban Chinese.” Journal of World Health and Populations. (submitted)
§ Strand, MA, Duan, XQ, Johnson, R, Li, YQ. “Social determinants of delayed diagnosis of tuberculosis
in a North China urban setting” . International Quarterly of Community Health Education, 2011;
31(3):279-289.
§ Strand, M.A., Perry, JL, Wang, P, Liu, SF. “Prenatal and early childhood exposure to malnutrition and
the development of Metabolic Syndrome.” Chinese Preventive Medicine 2010; 11(9):894-897.
§ Fischer PR, Thacher TD, Strand, M. A., Kirmani S, Tebben PJ. “Pediatric Bone Disease: A Decade
of Discovery.” Minnesota Medicine April 2007, pp 36-37.
§ Strand, M.A., Perry, J., Jin, M.M., Tracer, D.P., Fischer, P.R., et al. (2007) “Diagnosis of Rickets and
Reassessing its Prevalence Among Rural Children in Northern China” Pediatrics International
49(2):202-209.
§ Cheng, G. (2007). "Investigation on Peasant Workers' Health Status and TB Knowledge in Yuci District
of Jinzhong City in 2005." (in Chinese) Preventive Medicine Tribune 13: 425-426. (This is my work
published by a Chinese colleague.)
§ Thacher, T.D., Fischer, P.R., Strand, M.A., and Pettifor, J.M.. (2006) “Nutritional rickets around the
world: causes and future directions.” Annals of Tropical Paediatrics 26(1):1-16.
§ Ni, Jinxi, Strand, M. A., Wu, Zhongdao, Wang, Xiaobing, Wang, Yonggang, Duan, Xiaoqin, et al.
(2005). “Effect of the Health Belief Model on Health Beliefs and Standardized Medication of
Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients” (Chinese) Chinese General Practice 8(23):1936-1938.
§ Strand, M. A., Peng, G.X., Zhang, P.Y., and G. Lee (2002-2003). "Preventing rickets in locally
appropriate ways: A case report from North China." International Quarterly of Community Health
Education, 21(4):297-322.
§ Strand, M. A. and A. I. Chen (2002). "Rural Health Care in North China in an Era of Rapid Economic
Change." The Yale-China Health Journal 1:11-24 (Autumn 2002).
§ Strand, M. A., A. Chen, et al. (2001). “Training up Family Practice doctors with creative-thinking
skills.” China Academic Medicine Outstanding Selected Essays. Z. y. y. C. M. D. Society. Beijing,
China Technological Literature Publisher. No. 2: 511-516.
§ Strand, M. A., Y. Chen, et al. (1999). "Child's health collaboration between Western Family Practice
physicians and county-level maternal and child health workers." General Practitioner 8(4): 167-8.
§ Strand, M. A. (1998). Teaching adult health care workers in rural China. Colorado Springs, CO,
Colorado Springs Osteopathic Foundation and Family Medicine Center: 1-6. Monograph.
§ Strand, M. A. (1998). Teaching creative-thinking skills in a Confucist context. Colorado Springs, CO,
Colorado Springs Osteopathic Foundation and Family Medicine Center: 1-8. Monograph.
§ Strand, M. A., C. F. Louis, et al. (1993). “Phosphorylation of the porcine skeletal and cardiac muscle
sarcoplasmic reticulum ryanodine receptor.” Biochimica et Biophys Acta 1175: 319-326.
§ Ervasti, J. M., Strand, M. A., et al. (1991). "Ryanodine receptor in different malignant hyperthermiasusceptible porcine muscles." American Journal of Physiology 26: C58-C66.
Published Abstracts:
§ Strand, M.A., Perry, JL, Wang, P, Liu, SF. (2010) “Prenatal and early childhood exposure to
malnutrition and the development of Metabolic Syndrome in later life.” 1st International Conference on
Abdominal Obesity. Hong Kong, China. January 28-30, 2010.
§ Strand, M.A., Duan, XQ, Johnson, R, Li, YQ and Sun, JQ. (2009) “One-on-one Health Education
Among Tuberculosis Patients in China.” Eastern Regional Meeting of the International Union Against
TB and Lung Disease, Beijing, China. September 9-12, 2009.
§ Strand, M. A. and D. R. Hobbs (1996). Training China's Rural Doctors -- The Cobbler Program.
Ottawa, Canada, Third Conference on International Health.
§ Strand, M. A. (1996). The Cobbler Program: March 1995 to April 1998. Shanghai, China., The First
International Conference on Rural Medicine.: 153.
§ Strand, M. A., C. F. Louis, et al. (1991). "Protein kinase catalyzed phosphorylation of the skeletal and
cardiac muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum ryanodine receptor." Biophysical Journal 59: 106a.
§ Ervasti, J. M., Strand, M. A., et al. (1990). "Properties of the ryanodine receptor (RyR) in various
muscle types of malignant hyperthermia susceptible (MHS) pigs." Journal of the Neurological Sciences
(supp.) 98: 408.
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Strand, M. A., T. P. Hanson, et al. (1990). "Cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) from malignant
hyperthermia susceptible (MHS) pigs displays normal 3H-Ryanodine binding." Biophysical Journal 57:
277a.
STUDENT INTERNS MENTORED
Melody Ju (2 mos)
2009
University of California Berkeley, premed student
Evergreen Chronic Disease Management Program Efficacy Assessment
Jenny Lee (2 mos)
2009
Temple University, physical therapy doctoral student
Setting up a community-based stroke rehab program.
Chen Hong and Wei Chongxi (2 mos)
2008
Shanxi Medical University master’s students, Shanxi, China
Research Design and Data Analysis
Kristen Koo (8 wks)
2008
Health Sciences, Queen’s University, Kingston, ONT, Canada
Intrauterine Nutritional Lack and Metabolic Disorder in Mid-life (published in Chinese Preventive
Medicine (in Chinese) 2010; 11(9):894-897)
Michael Kwan (8 wks)
2008
Medical student, University of Calgary Medical School, Calgary, AB, Canada
Intrauterine Nutritional Lack and Metabolic Disorder in Mid-life (published in Chinese Preventive
Medicine (in Chinese) 2010; 11(9):894-897)
Adriana Tang (3 mos)
2007
Nursing student, Ryerson University, Canada
Community Health implementation in urban China.
Ryan Johnson (10 wks)
2007
University of California Berkeley, MPH student
Reasons for Treatment-delay Among TB Patients (published in International Quarterly of Community
Health Education, 2011:31(3):279-289.
Alex Wang
2005
University of Waterloo senior, Bachelor of Science in Health Studies (10 wks)
TB Among Migrant Workers in China (published in International Quarterly of Community Health
Education, 2007; 26(4):379-395)
Kristin Lee
2005
Harvard University sophomore studying premed (10 wks)
TB Among Migrant Workers in China (published in International Quarterly of Community Health
Education, 2007; 26(4):379-395)
Ian Lau
2004
University of Edmonton, Canada, MPH student (3 months)
Health Education in BP Control through Community Health Center
Jean Tsai
2004
Wheaton College senior, Sociology (3 months)
Ethnographic study of the life needs of migrant urban workers in Yuci, China. (published in Finding
Balance in a Changing China, 20007, Shanxi Evergreen Services)
Joel Wu
2004
University of Minnesota, MPH student (3 months)
Study of health beliefs of Chinese TB patients, with focus on nonadherence. (published in Chinese
General Practice, 2005; 8(23):1936-1938.)
Gene Lee
1999
University of Chicago School of Medicine (3 months)
Rickets survey (published in International Quarterly of Community Health, 21(4):297-322.)
REFERENCES
William J. Cairney, Ph.D.
Faculty at Western University of Health Sciences
140 Arequa Ridge
Colorado Springs, CO 80919, USA
Ph. (719)260-8923
Email: [email protected]
Phil Fischer, M.D.
Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine,
Mayo Clinic,
200 First Street., SW
Rochester, MN 55905, USA
Ph. (507)284-3373
Email: [email protected]
Craig Janes, Ph.D.
Faculty of Health Sciences
West Mall Centre 2812
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, B.C.
V5A 1S6 Canada
(604) 291-4821
Email: [email protected]

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