Below is a list of achievements, activities and happenings involving UNMC staff, faculty and students.
Julie Fedderson, M.D., assistant professor of internal medicine, and five UNMC medical students recently donned tights and heels and performed their take on a Beyonce song at the Metro Omaha Medical Society’s MESS Club event. The students who joined Dr. Fedderson were:
- Jenna Steffen (M3);
- Jeremy Hosein (M1);
- Matt Maslonka (M1);
- Tara Kirkpatrick (M3); and
- Ashley Bauer (M1).
- Jeremy Hosein (M1);
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From left: Jenna Steffen (M3), Jeremy Hosein (M1), Julie Fedderson M.D., Matt Maslonka (M1), Tara Kirkpatrick (M3) and Ashley Bauer (M1), perform a health-care take on a Beyonce tune at the recent Metro Omaha Medical Society MESS Club event. |
Another UNMC physician, Matt Bogard, M.D., a first-year resident in family medicine, was elected resident director by the NAFP.
Alan Kolok, Ph.D., UNMC College of Public Health and professor of biology and director of the Aquatic Toxicology Laboratory at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, held the inaugural, “What’s in your Watershed Day” on April 23. Citizen scientists collected small water samples taken from throughout the Elkhorn River watershed. The samples will be analyzed for the presence of a commonly used herbicide, atrazine.
Sumit Kar, laboratory assistant in the department of cellular and intergrative physiology, has received the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (SEBM) Young Investigator Award of $500 to present his research at Experimental Biology 2011 in Washington.
Sarah Clayton, graduate student in the department of cellular and integrative physiology, has received the “Pincus Award” from the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). The award honors a graduate or postdoctoral trainee for exceptional service to a member society to help defray expenses of attending a scientific meeting.