Lisa Spellman

Rural health professions programs prepare students for rigors of UNMC

Undergraduate students hail from UNK, Wayne State, Chadron State, and Peru State Colleges.

Apr 4, 2022

Peru State College undergraduate students are enrolled in the Public Health Early Admissions Student Track (PHEAST).

UNMC among organizers of conference on COVID-19 in the MENA region

More than 110 global public health, medical and research organizations from 25 countries to take part in event.

Feb 28, 2022

Joseph Khoury, MD, named chair of pathology and microbiology at UNMC

Joseph Khoury is an internationally recognized leader in the field of hematopathology.

Jan 26, 2022

Joseph Khoury, MD

Registration is now open for Walk & Roll for Disabilities

The fundraiser’s 18th event, organized by the Meyer Foundation for Disabilities, is set for March 6.

Jan 18, 2022

OPS Superintendent Cheryl Logan, EdD, featured speaker of annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration

The annual event is co-hosted by Nebraska Medicine and the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Jan 4, 2022

Cheryl Logan, EdD, OPS Superintendent

UNMC legislative report reveals more behavioral health professionals despite increase

Behavioral Health Education Center of Nebraska reports a 33.5 percent increase in behavioral health professionals amidst an ongoing shortage and aging workforce.

Dec 29, 2021

Marley Doyle, MD

Malnutrition increases risk of mortality from COVID-19

UNMC researchers found that among patients hospitalized with COVID-19, the presence of malnutrition increased the risk of mortality by 2.5 times.

Dec 28, 2021

Jana Ponce, PhD

Climate change and the impact on mental health is the focus of the Nov. 30 Science Cafe

Dr. Abadi will discuss current and potential future impacts of weather and climate-related exposures on mental health.

Nov 22, 2021

Azar Abadi, PhD

Supercomputer bridges campus, speeds data collection

The center works across the NU system to unite clinicians, clinical informaticists, data scientists and computer scientists.

Nov 18, 2021

Using the power of the DGX A100 supercomputer, Yiannis Chatzizisis, MD, PhD, examines patient-specific computer simulations of coronary artery stenting procedures on the touch screens at the Davis Global Center.

Study shows a path to HIV elimination

New paper describes use of ‘intracellular molecular surgery’ to attack HIV-1 at multiple points.

Nov 10, 2021

Howard Gendelman, MD