Tom O'Connor

Employee spotlight: Linda Wilkie

Name/title:  Linda Wilkie/institutional research analyst/coordinator, director of vice chancellor for research communications Hometown:  Omaha, Neb. Talk about your job and what you like best about it: My current position in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research allows me to be a "jack of all trades," which means that I get to develop new […]

Jul 23, 2015

Linda Wilkie

Coming events

August 11 – Topping off ceremony/beam signing for Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, 3:30 – 5 p.m. Ceremony will take place in front of the Durham Research Center. August 12-13 – University of Nebraska President Hank Bounds, Ph.D., will visit the UNMC campus. August 18 – Premier Education Banquet (by invitation only), noon – […]

Jul 23, 2015

Department Profile: Cellular and Integrative Physiology

Chair:  Irving H. Zucker, Ph.D., (Currently the longest running chair in the College of Medicine)    No. of people in department (faculty/staff): Faculty                         17 Courtesy                        7 Postdocs                        6 Grad Students              13 Staff                             14 Total                           57 New faculty: Erika Boesen, Ph.D., assistant professor Ph.D. 2005, Monash University Specialty: Renal Physiology Major Interest: The endothelin system […]

Jul 23, 2015

Irving H. Zucker, Ph.D.

Five goals established by curriculum change group

The Curriculum Innovations Work Group (CIWG) was formed in October 2014 by the College of Medicine Curriculum Committee. The group’s task was to investigate and recommend a new framework for the medical school curriculum. In April, the Curriculum Committee approved the three-phase framework. The CIWG has identified five overarching goals for UNMC curricular redesign:  Integration […]

Jul 23, 2015

Research highlights

UNMC College of Medicine faculty received 17 grant awards representing more than $2 million in new funding during the month of May. Highlights included: Kaushik Patel, Ph.D., cellular & integrative physiology, has received more than $500,000 through a National Institutes of Health R01 award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for a study on […]

Jul 23, 2015

Kaushik Patel, Ph.D.

News briefs

Dr. Frankel named president of the Nebraska Medical Association Harris Frankel, M.D., associate professor of neurological sciences at UNMC and chief medical director and senior vice president of medical affairs at Nebraska Medicine, will be installed as president of the Nebraska Medical Association during its House of Delegates and Inaugural Banquet Sept. 18, at the […]

Jul 23, 2015

Harris Frankel, M.D., associate professor of neurological sciences

First pediatric hematologist/oncologist in Nebraska dies at age 81

Rashid Al-Rashid, M.D., was on UNMC faculty for 25 years

Jul 23, 2015

Rashid Al-Rashid, M.D.

3 kickstarters for your morning

By Michael Huckabee, Ph.D., professor and director of the University of Nebraska Medical Center Division of Physician Assistant Education. Dr. Huckabee has more than 30 years’ experience as a physician assistant, mostly in rural Nebraska. His columns appear on livewellnebraska.com, a health and wellness website published by the Omaha World-Herald. Sunrise Stooling The benefits of […]

Jul 23, 2015

Dr. Ali Khan called back to Sierra Leone

UNMC College of Public Health dean returns for four-week stint

Jul 20, 2015

Ali S. Khan, M.D., M.P.H.

New faculty

Kristen Baus, M.D., assistant professor, psychiatry Ronald Zolty, M.D., Ph.D., professor, internal medicine-cardiology

Jun 29, 2015