The following is a list of recent achievements, activities and happenings involving UNMC staff, faculty and students:
Gil Schreiner, M.D., a retired developmental pediatrician, was honored as a member emeritus at a UNMC Munroe-Meyer Institute board meeting in March. A scholarship for a child to attend Camp Munroe will be named in honor of Dr. Schreiner and his wife, Hayes.
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Gil Schreiner, M.D., second from right, was honored as a member emeritus at a UNMC Munroe-Meyer Institute board meeting in March. A scholarship for a child to attend Camp Munroe will be named in honor of Dr. Schreiner and his wife, Hayes (far right). Pictured with the Schreiners are board president Merrilee Miller and Steve McWhorter. |
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Shanghai Jiao Tong University nursing students Yuanjun Qiu, Yao Huang and Ying Lu are visiting UNMC through April 2. (John Barrier, College of Nursing) |
UNMC optometrist Patti Fries, O.D., recently returned from a three-week deployment as a member of the Missouri Air National Guard. She and Air Force members from the Pacific Air Command, provided optometric care to hundreds of patients in Thailand as part of a multi-national exercise called Cope Tiger. While there, she was interviewed a number of times by Air Force and Thai and Singh television.
Melissa Paradis, a UNMC nursing student, attended this week’s American Association of the Colleges of Nursing 2010 Student Policy Summit free after she was named one of the top three winners of a national essay contest. Her fellow students, Jena Freudenberg, Heidi Keeler and Vickie Vinton, received runner-up awards in the contest and thus received partial scholarships to attend the conference.
UNMC’s Office of Student Equity and Multicultural Affairs hosted nearly 120 undergraduate students at the recent 2010 Scholars day. The recruiting event lets students from all University of Nebraska campuses visit UNMC and learn about health care professions, innovative research and new technology.
UNMC’s Donald Leopold, M.D., according the current newsletter of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences, had the most downloaded article in 2009. The professor and chairman of the otolaryngology-head and neck surgery’s 2002 article, “Distortion of Olfactory Perception: Diagnosis and Treatment,” Volume 27, Issue 7, 611 615, was downloaded 8,615 times last year.