Jeff Robb UNMC strategic communications

Division supports hospice and palliative care training

Melissa Teply, MD, knows many practitioners go into health care wanting to keep people healthy and to save lives. But once in practice, new doctors frequently care for patients with serious illnesses that will eventually take their life in spite of the best medical efforts. Death and dying, Dr. Teply said, are realities that young […]

Nov 21, 2022

Researchers work to understand chemo brain

In the flurry around cancer treatment, patients often find themselves feeling a fog. Cancer already can come with chemotherapy, radiation and a series of tests and procedures. Side effects such as nausea are readily anticipated and often treatable. But “chemo brain” is different. Patients might find their thinking is off, their memory not quite the […]

Nov 21, 2022

A discussion with MMI’s Alice Shillingsburg, PhD

Dr. Shillingsburg is the new director of the integrated Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at the Munroe-Meyer Institute.

Nov 14, 2022

Alice Shillingsburg, PhD

Keith Allen, PhD, will step aside as psychology director

The Munroe-Meyer Institute has started a national search for a replacement. Dr. Allen will remain at MMI part-time.

Nov 9, 2022

Keith Allen, PhD

Dr. Gold praises 24-7 med center response to leak

The chancellor commends the well-organized response to an unpredictable, unforeseen event.

Nov 9, 2022

Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, and Jennifer Bartholomew, vice president and associate vice chancellor, facilities management, for UNMC and Nebraska Medicine

Keith Allen, PhD, will step aside as psychology director

The Munroe-Meyer Institute has started a national search for a replacement. Dr. Allen will remain at MMI part-time.

Nov 2, 2022

Keith Allen, PhD

Med center leaders proclaim National Disability Employment Awareness Month

UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, and Nebraska Medicine CEO James Linder, MD, signed the proclamation.

Oct 27, 2022

UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, signs the med center proclamation this week.

Robert Wigton, MD, remembered for what he gave to the world

A celebration of life for Dr. Wigton was held Oct. 17 in the Wigton Heritage Center.

Oct 20, 2022

The celebration of life for Robert Wigton, MD, was held in the sunlit Olson Atrium inside the Wigton Heritage Center on Oct. 17.

Celebration of life for Bob Wigton, MD, is Monday

Dr. Wigton will fittingly be remembered in the Wigton Heritage Center, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Oct 13, 2022

The late Bob Wigton, MD

Thursday forum will support UNMC’s Iranian community

The online discussion, held via Zoom, will be from 4 to 5 p.m.

Oct 12, 2022

Steven Wengel, MD, psychiatry professor and assistant vice chancellor for campus wellness, will lead the discussion.