Karen Burbach
Dr. Romero honored for community work
Jose Romero, M.D., recently received one of the 2003 Hispanic/Latino on the Move awards for his contributions to the Omaha community.
Sep 30, 2003
ITS has begun visiting UNMC workstations to upgrade to Lotus Notes 6 with an anticipated completion date of early December. See story for details.
Sep 29, 2003
Congress approves $2.5 million to UNMC for mobile lab technology
The U.S. Congress has approved a Department of Defense appropriations bill that provides $2.5 million for UNMC to take its clinical laboratory automation technology to the next level.
Sep 29, 2003
Durham Research Center dedication Nov. 13
The campus community is invited to the dedication ceremony for the Durham Research Center Thursday, Nov. 13 at 10 a.m. in the auditorium of the building. Plans are being made to broadcast the ceremony to UNMC’s Kearney, Lincoln and Scottsbluff campuses. An all-campus celebration will follow the dedication.
Sep 29, 2003
Shrike-Hlavac Memorial Trust aids UNMC
The UNMC Eppley Cancer Center has been chosen as the recipient of the 2003 distribution of the Shrike-Hlavac Memorial Trust. Money from the trust will go toward “seed money” for innovative research ideas.
Sep 26, 2003
AMA president-elect speaks at UNMC
Compensation for patients’ “pain and suffering” should be limited in medical malpractice cases, the president-elect of the American Medical Association said Wednesday.
Sep 26, 2003
UNO hockey partners with Eppley Cancer Center
The puck will drop soon on a partnership between the UNMC Eppley Cancer Center and the University of Nebraska at Omaha hockey team, giving employees the opportunity to view great hockey while contributing to a new cancer research fund.
Sep 25, 2003
Faculty Women’s Club serves the campus
The Faculty Women’s Club Wednesday honored UNMC’s Barbara Harrison and Patti George for helping the group meet its goals. It also recognized seven student scholarship recipients.
Sep 25, 2003
Final College of Medicine dean candidate forum Sept. 25
Faculty, staff and students are invited Thursday to meet the final candidate for UNMC College of Medicine dean — David H. Chestnut, M.D., Alfred Habeeb professor and chair of anesthesiology and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Sep 24, 2003
A HIPAA message — Workstation protections
HIPAA, the “Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996,” provides federal protection of patient health information. As part of our continuing efforts to educate employees, these HIPAA-related messages will be distributed the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month. Today’s HIPAA message clarifies whether it’s OK to bring in software from home or download it from the Internet.
Sep 23, 2003