Karen Burbach
RHEN and AHECs award 39 small community grants
UNMC’s Rural Health Education Network has announced the funding of 39 grants to small communities around the state. The grants, which total nearly $47,000, range between $750 and $3,000 and are used to fund projects aimed at improving community health and to introduce Nebraska youth to health care careers.
Apr 4, 2007
Poison center celebrates 50 years of service
Fifty years and more than one million phone calls — this year marks a half-century of service for the Nebraska Regional Poison Center. Born under the leadership of two visionary physicians, Dr. Matilda McIntire and Dr. Carol Angle, the poison center has become a reliable resource and a mainstay for families across the region and beyond.
Apr 4, 2007
Medical center receives national nursing recognition
UNMC’s hospital partner, The Nebraska Medical Center, is honored to receive the esteemed Magnet designation for extraordinary nursing care. The achievement, as determined by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) Magnet Recognition Program®, is widely viewed as the “gold standard” in the nursing profession. It is also one of the highest levels of recognition a medical center can achieve.
Apr 3, 2007
Pharmacy student wins national patient counseling competition
Rebecca Seeba, a second-year pharmacy student at UNMC, recently won the American Pharmacists Association (APhA)-Academy of Student Pharmacists (ASP) National Patient Counseling Competition.
Apr 3, 2007
Avian flu education — antivirals
What role would antivirals have should pandemic strike?
Apr 3, 2007
Goetzinger-Comer to lead UNMC’s use of emerging communications technologies
Sandy Goetzinger-Comer, director of public affairs, will pursue a new assignment at UNMC to strategically position the campus in a leadership role nationally in the field of emerging communications technologies. She will leave her current position July 1 to focus on this new opportunity.
Apr 3, 2007
UNMC continues its climb in 2008 rankings
UNMC’s push for quality academics is reflected in the latest U.S.News & World Report’s ranking of the country’s graduate schools, which show UNMC programs are making a steady climb among the nation’s top programs. (EDITOR’S NOTE: The number of institutions surveyed has been revised. More institutions were surveyed than originally reported in UNMC Today.)
Apr 2, 2007
The South Omaha Community Care Council does invaluable work and UNMC Chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D. — for one — is proud the group is associated with the medical center.
Mar 30, 2007
Campus-wide tornado drills set for Wednesday
UNMC, The Nebraska Medical Center and UNMC Physicians will participate in statewide “Severe Weather Week,” which will include test tornado warnings on Wednesday.
Mar 30, 2007
Dr. Allison honored with Koefoot Award
Jay Allison, M.D., does more than treat patients at his O’Neill clinic. The 1995 UNMC graduate is helping train future physicians by granting students a wide range of supervised, hands-on experiences from providing patient care to assisting with surgical procedures and deliveries. Dr. Allison received the second Theodore H. Koefoot Jr., M.D., Outstanding Preceptor in Rural Family Medicine Award on Tuesday at UNMC.
Mar 30, 2007