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UNMC researchers developing test to detect warning signs of joint replacement failure
Goal is to allow joint replacements to last longer and avoid costly revision surgeries More than 1.5 million total joint replacement operations are performed worldwide each year. While the success rate is 90 percent, almost 10 percent of implants fail and require additional surgery. Now, University of Nebraska Medical Center researchers have discovered […]
Apr 27, 2011
UNMC administrator appointed to national advisory committee
Will provide key voice for health care workforce needs of rural communities Patricia Hageman, Ph.D., professor and former program director of physical therapy education in the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s School of Allied Health Professions, has been appointed to a three-year term on an external advisory committee for the Health Resources and Services Administration […]
Apr 27, 2011
UNMC rural health director appointed to presidential advisory group
Patrik Johansson, M.D., tapped by president to serve on Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative Public Health President Barack Obama has appointed Patrik Johansson, M.D., director of the Rural Health Education Network in the Harold M. and Beverly Maurer Center for Public Health, at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, to the […]
Apr 27, 2011
The University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing announced today that it has launched a unique mobile clinic to address Nebraska’s rural shortage of those who specialize in the care of older adults. A $300,000 federal stimulus grant is funding the Mobile Nurse Managed Clinic — a 38-foot, custom-built vehicle and one-of-a-kind mobile clinic. […]
Apr 26, 2011
UNMC internal medicine physician, Tom Tape, M.D., elected to national post
Tom Tape, M.D., a professor of internal medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, has been elected chair of the 2011-2012 Board of Governors of the American College of Physicians (ACP). The ACP is the nation’s largest medical specialty organization. This month, he began serving a one-year term as chair-elect of the board of […]
Apr 25, 2011
UNMC names Seward, Neb., doctor 2011 Outstanding Preceptor in Rural Family Medicine
Van Vahle, M.D., a family medicine physician in Seward, Neb., has been honored as the Marion D. and Theodore H. Koefoot Jr., M.D., Outstanding Preceptor Award in Rural Family Medicine from the University of Nebraska Medical Center. The Koefoot Award was created in 2005 in memory of Dr. Theodore Koefoot, and is granted to […]
Apr 22, 2011
UNMC’s Lyn Klassen, M.D., inducted as master in American College of Physicians
Lynell Klassen, M.D., professor and chairman of the University of Nebraska Medical Center Department of Internal Medicine, has been inducted as a master of the American College of Physicians (ACP). There have only been about 1,150 masterships awarded in the 96-year history of the ACP. It’s an honor which only five other Nebraskan physicians have […]
Apr 22, 2011
Three University of Nebraska Medical Center students – Whitney Birkhart, Meghan Cleinmark and Lucas Robinson – have received $1,000 scholarships for the 2010-2011 academic year from Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics and the American Society for Clinical Pathology. The three are among 171 top undergraduate and graduate medical laboratory students from around the country who were […]
Apr 21, 2011
UNMC names Dr. Jennifer Larsen vice chancellor for research
Has been a key contributor to UNMC’s research growth A key cog in the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s thriving research enterprise, Jennifer Larsen, M.D., has been named vice chancellor for research. The appointment, which was announced today by Chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D., is subject to approval of the University of Nebraska Board […]
Apr 18, 2011
UNMC students to hold health fair in South Omaha on Saturday
Free health screenings available to the public The University of Nebraska Medical Center Student Senate and other student volunteers will present a Health Screening Fair at the Juan Diego Center, 5211 S. 31st St., from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday. The fair, which is free and open to the public, will feature: · Lead […]
Apr 14, 2011