UNMC Today
UNMC programs among the best in 2010 U.S. News rankings
The University of Nebraska Medical Center continues to be positioned among the nation’s top programs in U.S.News & World Report’s rankings of the country’s graduate schools. The rankings, which are available online and on newsstands, reflect UNMC’s longstanding hold in such program areas as primary care, rural health and physician assistant education. The annual […]
Apr 23, 2009
Real estate service for UNMC launches Web site
A Web site for Real Estate With Honors — a private off-campus listing service to help University of Nebraska Medical Center students, fellows, faculty, staff, researchers and alumni find housing in the Omaha metropolitan area — has launched. The Web site can be accessed at www.unmcrealestatewithhonors.com and was launched in time to help new students […]
Apr 22, 2009
Dr. Batra named senior associate dean for UNMC College of Medicine
Surinder Batra, Ph.D., has been named senior associate dean for research and development for the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine. Dr. Batra, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at UNMC, fills the vacancy left by Steven Hinrichs, M.D., who was previously named chairman of the department of pathology and microbiology. "Dr. […]
Apr 21, 2009
Valentine’s Dr. Steve Senseney receives Koefoot Award
Do and learn — a truer method of instruction may never have been instituted. It’s a method that is commonly encountered by UNMC medical students as they do rotations in rural parts of the state. Third-year medical student Adam Wells experienced it when he served a rotation with Steve Senseney, M.D., in […]
Apr 17, 2009
Children with cancer from Nebraska, Iowa to benefit from poker run Saturday, May 17
Children with cancer from Nebraska and Iowa will benefit from a poker run Saturday, May 17, during the Dillon Brothers Harley-Davidson’s 7th Annual Maiden Voyage Poker Run in the Omaha area. Proceeds from the poker run will benefit Camp Quality Heartland, a non-profit, volunteer organization that provides free summer camping experiences and other […]
Apr 17, 2009
Dr. Camras, inventor of most effective glaucoma drug, dies
Carl Camras, M.D., the University of Nebraska Medical Center physician whose research led to the discovery of the most effective drug for treating glaucoma, died Tuesday at his home in Omaha after a long battle with heart failure. Dr. Camras, who was 55, served as chairman of the UNMC Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences […]
Apr 16, 2009
National STD expert to visit UNMC on April 22
The statistics in Douglas County are hard to ignore. The chlamydia rate is nearly 70 percent higher than the United States average and the gonorrhea rate is nearly 50 percent higher. Clearly, there is a communitywide epidemic among teens and young adults. The hardest hit populations are poor, underserved, racial/ethnic minorities and urban residents. That […]
Apr 15, 2009
Washington, DC physician named dean of UNMC College of Public Health
A public health academic leader with expertise in maternal-neonatal health and the elimination of health disparities, Ayman El-Mohandes, M.B.B.Ch., M.D., M.P.H., has been selected as the new dean of the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health. The appointment, which is effective Sept.1 pending approval of the University of Nebraska Board of Regents, […]
Apr 15, 2009
UNMC nursing dean, 3 faculty receives awards from Midwest Nursing Research Society
Virginia Tilden, D.N.Sc., dean of the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing, was honored recently when she received the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award of the Midwest Nursing Research Society. She and three faculty members and a student from the college received awards during the Society’s 33rd annual conference in Minneapolis. […]
Apr 13, 2009
First female Navajo surgeon to speak at UNMC on April 13
Renowned Native American doctor, Lori Arviso Alvord, M.D., will present “The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: Combining Western Medicine and Traditional Navajo Ceremonies to Create Healing Environments” on Monday, April 13 at 7 p.m. at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. The presentation, which is free and open to the public, will take place […]
Apr 10, 2009