College of Medicine

Candidates meet with High School Alliance students

Grant Sorrell and Evan Schmeits, candidates for local boards, learned more about UNMC collaborates with public schools.

Feb 13, 2020

From left (standing), Grant Sorrell, candidate for the Omaha Public School Board, and Evan Schmeits, candidate for the Metropolitan Community College Board, speak with High School Alliance members Susie Valderrabano from Omaha Burke, left, and Grant Schneider from Bellevue West.

NCI-designated cancer center renewal grant is immediate focus

Ken Cowan, M.D., Ph.D., will continue to serve as director of the center and the Eppley Institute through the renewal process.

Feb 12, 2020

The Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center

New Investigator: Mohd Wasim Nasser, Ph.D.

Dr. Nasser’s research focus is brain metastasis, breast cancer and lung cancer.

Feb 12, 2020

Mohd Wasim Nasser, Ph.D.

Panel to discuss imposter syndrome on Friday

A group of medical center professionals will discuss the syndrome at the Schwartz Center Rounds.

Feb 12, 2020

Jasmine Riviere Marcelin, M.D., will be joined by colleagues Nicole Skinner, Sheritta Strong, M.D., and Steven Wengel, M.D., at the Schwartz Center Rounds on Friday.

Drs. Paulman step away from UNMC, but not its mission

Paul Paulman, M.D., and Audrey Paulman, M.D., have spent more than a combined 60 years at the medical center.

Feb 11, 2020

Drs. Paul and Audrey Paulman at their retirement tea earlier this month.

New Investigator: Yiannis Chatzizisis, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Chatzizisis’ research focus includes computational cardiovascular simulations.

Feb 11, 2020

Yiannis Chatzizisis, M.D, Ph.D.

U.S. again reaches out to Nebraska during health crisis

Nebraska Medicine/UNMC to partner with federal government to monitor American citizens returning from China. None show signs of coronavirus.

Feb 7, 2020

From left, UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D.; Eric Kasowski, M.D., U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Maj. Gen. Daryl Bohac, adjutant general, Nebraska National Guard; James Lawler, M.D., director, international programs and innovation, UNMC Global Center for Health Security; Shelly Schwedhelm, executive director, Nebraska Medicine Emergency Management and Biopreparedness; and Capt. Dana Hall, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, speak to the media Thursday morning about the Americans arriving in Nebraska to be quarantined at Camp Ashland.

UNMC researchers part of $32 million international project

Goal is to simplify treatment, prevention for HIV, TB, malaria and hepatitis C

Feb 7, 2020

Susan Swindells, M.B.B.S., and Kimberly Scarsi, Pharm.D.

UNMC for the record

Symposiums open for registration and other news and notes from the UNMC community.

Feb 7, 2020

New Investigator: Kelly Stauch, Ph.D.

Dr. Stauch’s research focuses on neurodegeneration.

Feb 7, 2020

Kelly Stauch, Ph.D.