Below is a list of achievements, activities and happenings involving UNMC staff, faculty and students.
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Ally Dering-Anderson, Pharm.D., clincal assistant professor in the College of Pharmacy, presented at a town hall meeting in Lincoln on the dangers associated with teens abusing prescription drugs. The presentation was for the Lancaster County Health Department.
EMPOWER, a UNMC student-run organization that partners with the WCA to offer services to women affected by domestic violence, will host a self-defense class on Saturday at 9 a.m. in the Center for Healthy Living. Mike Kassebaum, owner of ATA Krav Maga Martial Arts in Bellevue, will lead a session that will show attendees good techniques to defend themselves. The course costs $12.50.
A class of 19 scholars has graduated from the Great Plains Public Health Leadership Institute, a professional development program of the College of Public Health. The program builds and enhances leadership skills for established and emerging leaders in the region’s public health systems. The graduates and their hometowns are:
- Columbus — Sachin Bagade and Ruth Mueller, East Central District Health Department;
- Lincoln — Brian Coyle, Tina Goodwin, Sara Morgan and Jenifer Roberts-Johnson, Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services; and Tina Spreng and Larry Voegele, Ponca Tribe of Nebraska Health Services Department; Kimberly Norman, UNMC College of Pharmacy;
- McCook — Heidi Wheeler, Southwest Nebraska Public Health Department;
- Omaha — Vicki Bangert, Stephanie Gould and Sara Howard, One World Community Health Centers, Inc.; Sarah Brandon, Alegent Health; Shawn Gibbs and Melissa Tibbits, UNMC College of Public Health; Shavonna Lausterer, Douglas County Health Department; Bill Minier, M.D., BlueCross BlueShield of Nebraska;
- Wisner — Laura Holtz, Elkhorn Logan Valley Public Health Department.
Paul Fey, Ph.D., professor in the department of pathology and microbiology and medical director of clinical microbiology, is now a certified Diplomate of the American Board of Medical Microbiology (ABMM). Certification by the ABMM is recognized by federal and state governmental agencies as a significant component toward meeting licensure requirements for high-complexity laboratory directors and is recognized under the final rule of the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA).
Karen Weidner, director of the nursing program at Northeast Community College, and Liane Connelly, Ph.D., assistant dean of the UNMC College of Nursing Northern Division, recently presented at the Sigma Theta Tau International 23rd International Nursing Research Congress in Brisbane, Australia.