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UNMC, Partners Across Nebraska Sponsor Free April Mini-Medical School Series; Genes & Chips: Combining New Science, New Technology for a Healthier Tomorrow The University of Nebraska Medical Center invites the public to its free April Mini-Medical School series titled, Genes & Chips: Combining New Science, New Technology for a Healthier Tomorrow. The series will show […]
Mar 19, 2001
UNMC/NHS Receives Approval to Begin Performing Computer-Assisted Chest Surgery Using da Vinci Surgical System The University of Nebraska Medical Center and Nebraska Health System will begin performing some chest surgeries using its computerized da Vinci Surgical System. Earlier this month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of Intuitive Surgical, Inc.s da […]
Mar 19, 2001
Jeffrey Payne, D.D.S. Appointed to UNMC College of Dentistry’s First Endowed Chair
University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry faculty member, Jeffrey B. Payne, D.D.S., of Lincoln, today was named the first recipient of the F. Gene and Rosemary Dixon Chair in Dentistry. The prestigious chair appointment was announced at the UNMC College of Dentistrys 15th Annual Professionals Day in Lincoln. The Dixons, long-time contributors to […]
Mar 16, 2001
A full-length reading of the play, Wit, by members of Omahas Blue Barn Theater, will be held Tuesday, March 20 at 6:30 p.m. at the Omaha Community Playhouse. This performance is sponsored by the University of Nebraska Medical Center Alumni Association, the UNMC Professionalism Committee and the Wit Education Initiative. Three UNMC faculty members will […]
Mar 16, 2001
Leading International Liver Expert Named Chairman of Department of Internal Medicine
John Gollan, M.D., Ph.D. an internationally acclaimed expert in liver disease has been named professor and chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine, the largest department of the UNMC College of Medicine. The appointment, which is subject to approval of the University of Nebraska Board of Regents, would be effective July 1. The announcement was […]
Mar 14, 2001
Munroe-Meyer Institute Responds to Pediatric Mental Health Needs in Rural Nebraska
If two adolescents in Nebraska are having mental health-related problems — for example, behavior disorders, anxiety disorders, adolescent depression, attention deficit disorders — and one youth is from Omaha, while the other from outstate, which kid has the greater access to the professional resources necessary to handle such issues? Up to now, the answer would […]
Mar 14, 2001
The University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry in Lincoln will host its 15th Annual Professionals Day and 34th Annual Student Scientific Program on Friday, March 16 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., in the East Campus Student Union. The event celebrates scholarly activities and provides students, faculty and the dental community an opportunity […]
Mar 13, 2001
University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry faculty member, Larry D. Haisch, D.D.S., recently was one of two faculty advisors nationally to receive the 2001 Burton C. Borgelt/International Association of Student Clinicians-American Dental Association Faculty Advisor Award. The award, presented annually by the International Association of Student Clinicians-American Dental Association (SCADA), is given to […]
Mar 12, 2001
Dr. Howard Gendelman Receives Prestigious Javits Investigator Award from the National Institutes of Health Howard Gendelman, M.D., an internationally renown neuroscientist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, has received the Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), a division of the National Institutes of Health. The […]
Mar 9, 2001
Bowlers Raise $1,900 for Cancer Research in Friend’s Memory
More than 110 bowlers from Nebraska, Iowa and other Midwestern states gathered in Council Bluffs last fall to raise money for cancer research and to remember a person whose life was taken by the disease. Participants in the second annual Joe Tomsu Memorial Bowling Tournament contributed $1,937 to the University of Nebraska Foundation to help […]
Mar 7, 2001