Advances in medical research, the latest in high-tech operating room equipment and improved techniques for teaching nursing skills were just a few of the presentations attended by members of the University of Nebraska Board of Regents, who toured the UNMC campus during their annual visit Friday.
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Myra Schmaderer, a research nurse in the UNMC College of Nursing, Lincoln Division, shows a teaching technique on the emergency care simulator to University of Nebraska Regent Charles Wilson, M.D., a retired cardiologist. |
The regents listened to informative 20- to 30-minute sessions presented by a wide array of UNMC faculty and staff members. The presentations even afforded opportunities for regents to gain hands-on experience with selected equipment. During the presentation about a new technique in teaching nursing skills, Regent Charles Wilson, M.D., a retired Lincoln cardiologist, was asked to take part in a demonstration of an emergency care simulator being used by the College of Nursing.
After welcoming the Board of Regents to campus, UNMC Chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D., proceeded to escort the group to the following presentations:
- “Tobacco Settlement Funding: The Next Level of Research,” with Thomas Rosenquist, Ph.D., vice chancellor for research, John Gollan, M.D., Ph.D., chairman of the department of internal medicine; and William Rizzo, M.D., a pediatrician recruited through tobacco settlement funds who heads the Munroe-Meyer Institute’s biochemical genetics department.
- “Overview of Campus Construction Projects,” with Ron Schaefer, director of facilities planning & construction, and Del Lee, associate vice chancellor & director, finance & business services.
- “Increasing Cancer Survival with New Radiation Technology,” with Charles Enke, M.D., chairman of the department radiation oncology.
- “New Technique in Teaching Nursing Skills,” with College of Nursing faculty members Lani Zimmerman, Ph.D., Louise LaFramboise, Ph.D., and Myra Schmaderer.
- “NHS Strategic Initiatives,” with Glenn Fosdick, chief executive officer of Nebraska Health System.
- “High-Tech Operating Rooms,” with Dmitry Oleynikov, M.D., associate professor in the department of surgery.
- “Educational Frontiers: Geriatric Medicine,” with Catherine Eberle, M.D. associate professor of internal medicine-geriatrics.
- “The Nose Knows: Importance of Sinus Research,” with Donald Leopold, M.D., chairman of the department of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery.