Carl Greiner, M.D., professor, psychiatry, will become a fellow in the American College of Psychiatrists in February. The ACP comprises more than 800 psychiatrists who have demonstrated excellence in the field of psychiatry and achieved national recognition in clinical practice, research, academic leadership, or teaching. Becoming a fellow is a major accomplishment, as potential fellows must be recommended by a current fellow of ACP. In addition to being elevated to fellow status, Dr. Greiner will become chair of the ACP Ethics Committee.
John Scherschel, M.D., assistant professor, internal medicine-cardiology, has been elected as a governor of the American College of Cardiology. He will start as governor-elect in March and will serve as a governor until 2017. The ACC is a 40,000-member nonprofit medical society. It is dedicated to enhancing the lives of cardiovascular patients through continuous quality improvement, patient-centered care, payment innovation and professionalism.
The pulmonary section in the department of pediatrics has recruited its first fellow. Mathew George, M.B.B.S., a pediatrician from Orangeburg, N.Y., will do a three-year fellowship with UNMC. A native of India, Dr. George is board-certified in pediatrics and toxicology. He is presently on the staff of three Massachusetts hospitals and one New York hospital, serving as a hospitalist and providing pediatric emergency medicine services.
Mike Feilmeier, M.D., ophthalmology and visual sciences, and Jo Giles, public relations, were named "40 under 40" award recipients by the Midlands Business Journal for 2012. Dr. Feilmeier was honored for his efforts to perform sight-restoring surgery on people in developing countries. Giles was recognized for a variety of media relations efforts, including launching the "Ask UNMC" segments featuring UNMC faculty on KETV (Ch. 7) and for placing a UNMC College of Public Health faculty member – Kendra Schmid, Ph.D. – on "Oprah." The award recognizes top metropolitan area professional men and women under the age of 40.
UNMC's Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT) has accredited its first cell transplant programs in Asia and South America. The National University Hospital Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Transplant Program in Singapore and the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in Sao Paulo, Brazil both achieved accreditation for adult and pediatric allogeneic and autologous cell transplantation. FACT is a non-profit organization that promotes improvement and progress by establishing minimum standards, providing education, and inspecting and accrediting programs worldwide. FACT accreditation is used to determine the U.S. News & World Report rankings of cancer centers for the "America's Best Hospitals" and "America's Best Children's Hospitals" list. Phyllis Warkentin, M.D., medical director of the UNMC Biologics Production Facility, serves as chief medical officer of FACT.
Adam Case, a postdoctoral fellow, and Erin Rosenbaugh, a graduate student, both in the department of cellular and integrative physiology, received Young Investigator Awards at the recent Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine Conference. The Young Investigator Awards recognized 15 outstanding student and postdoc members who presented original research at the meeting.
James Temme, associate director and Charles R. O’Malley Chair of Radiation Science Technology Education in the School of Allied Health Professions, has received the 2012 Nebraska Community College Association Distinguished Alumni Award. Temme, who has been at UNMC for 38 years, received a degree in 1971 from Platte College in Columbus, Neb. (now known as Central Community College). He went on to earn a bachelor’s degree from UNMC in 1974 and a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1984.