UNMC for the record

Below is a list of achievements, activities and happenings involving UNMC staff, faculty and students.

A team of second-year medical students from UNMC recently won the 30th Annual Rotator Cuff Basketball Tournament in Kirksville, Mo. Pictured are, front row from left: Nick Trapp, Patrick Reppert, Tommy Muelleman, Andy Huber and Steve Paulmeyer; back row from left: Ben Huebner, Ryan Peterson, Wes Whitten, Stephen Otte and Hernan Hernandez.

A team of second-year UNMC medical students recently won 30th Annual Rotator Cuff Basketball Tournament in Kirksville, Mo. The event offers the opportunity for health profession students from across the country to compete in a 5 on 5 basketball tournament.

More than 200 students from 11 different states attended this year’s School of Allied Health Professions’ “Backstage Pass.” The recruiting event, now in its second year, featured tours and educational and admissions info for all 11 of SAHP’s health professions programs. Said one participant: “Backstage Pass was great! I learned some valuable information, which helped to boost my confidence for the application process.”

UNMC faculty made presentations on April 15 to the University of Nebraska President’s Society, which held its meeting at the Sorrell Center. The presenters and their topics included:

• Paul Paulman, M.D., professor, family medicine, and Patti Carstens, program manager, Clinical Skills Center, on UNMC’s patient simulation program;
  
• Virginia Tilden, D.N.Sc., dean of the College of Nursing, on the Center for Nursing Science and UNMC’s distance education efforts in nursing; and
  
• Pierre Fayad, M.D., professor, neurological sciences, on stroke.

The President’s Society is administered through the University of Nebraska Foundation. It is made up of the top donors to any of the four University of Nebraska campuses.

Howard Gendelman, M.D., professor and chairman of the department of pharmacology and experimental neuroscience, received the Herman Friedman Founders Award from the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology. The award is given for visionary contributions in the establishment and continued development of the society.

Erin Rosenbaugh, graduate student in the department of cellular and integrative physiology, has been named a recipient of The American Physiological Society Women in Physiology’s Caroline tum Suden/Frances A. Hellebrandt/Steven M. Horvath Professional Opportunity Award.