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Message from the Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine
Debra Romberger, MD, chair of the UNMC Department of Internal Medicine.
Nov 5, 2024
Department of Internal Medicine Promotions and New Hires, Summer/Fall 2024
Congratulations to the following faculty members who recently achieved promotion or tenure. Promoted to Associate Professor: Promoted to Professor: Promoted to Professor with Tenure: Welcome to the new faculty who joined the Department of Internal Medicine this summer and fall. Assistant professors: Instructors:
Oct 17, 2024
Department of Internal Medicine Faculty Development Opportunities
We compile a list of career advancement and other learning opportunities that may support our faculty. If you have an idea for or would like to present, please reach out to Dr. Andrea Zimmer, associate vice chair of faculty development for the Department of Internal Medicine, at andreaj.zimmer@unmc.edu.
Oct 10, 2024
September is a month of new beginnings and changing seasons, and as we welcome the cool, crisp fall air, I am thrilled to announce the inaugural monthly newsletter from the Office of Equity & Inclusive Excellence, ENGAGED. An important theme from the departmental discovery process last fall was that folks wanted to have information about […]
Sep 16, 2024
Message from the Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine
We lost an icon of the Department of Internal Medicine recently with the passing of former Chairman Dr. Michael Sorrell. Dr. Sorrell had a vision of growing the academic mission of the department and made his vision a reality. He was Chair when I came to UNMC as a pulmonary research fellow and helped give […]
Jun 5, 2024
Message from the Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine
March whizzed by complete with lots of special events. Of course, there was the NCAA basketball’s March Madness complete with the most watched college basketball game ever in the Iowa-South Carolina women’s game last week. Our house officers organized a competition of a different sort with their fun Moustache Madness. Congrats to Dr. Landon Withrow […]
Apr 10, 2024
Message from the Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine
Seems like 2024 just started but already lots of things are happening. We had a leadership change in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology with Dr. Peter Mannon stepping down as chief to focus on his ongoing role as the Paustian Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) program. I am most grateful to Dr. Mannon for his […]
Feb 12, 2024
Message from the Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine
We are in the holiday season with our American Thanksgiving a recent memory and plans for holidays of several traditions filling the calendar for December and early January. I recognize the holidays can bring a variety of stresses, but I hope each of us can find a few gratitude moments where we can celebrate some […]
Dec 4, 2023
Message from the Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine
Summer is rapidly disappearing, and it is time for the incoming class of medical students to begin their studies this week. While they won’t join our clinical teams for another 18 months or so, we will interact with them frequently (nearly a third of their phase I teaching is by Internal Medicine faculty) and can […]
Aug 21, 2023
Message from the Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine – May 2023
So much has happened since our last newsletter! At the May department meeting we celebrated our Advocacy Award recipients (Dr. Snow, Dr. Gallett, and Dr. Hongsermeier-Graves). In early June, we recognized our department research winners for this year (Drs. Mikuls, Florescu, Liu, Twohig, DiSanti, and medical student Nozima Aripova). Drs. Casey and Wyatt launched a […]
Jun 12, 2023