College of Medicine

UNK-UNMC Rural Health Complex named for Chancellor Kristensen

The honor recognizes Kristensen’s role as a champion in building the health sciences workforce across greater Nebraska.

Dec 4, 2023

The Rural Health Education Building is targeted for completion in late 2025 with occupancy in early 2026.

UNMC for the record, Dec. 1, 2023

Items on the postdoctoral association, retirements, Diwali Night, a community cleanup and next week’s food vendors.

Dec 1, 2023

Abdul Rouf Mir, a postdoctoral research associate in pathology/microbiology, was elected president of the UNMC Postdoctoral Association.

UNMC joins with Girls Inc. to showcase radiology field

More than a dozen teenagers joined a “Rad Girls” activity at the Davis Global Center.

Nov 29, 2023

Radiology resident Liz Pruss, MD, left, served as a teacher and role model for visiting teenagers during a recent "Rad Girls" experiential educational event put on by the UNMC College of Medicine's Radiology Interest Group, UNMC's iEXCEL program and Girls Inc. Omaha.

Nebraska landmarks go purple for pancreatic cancer awareness

Nebraskans saw some of the state’s most visible landmarks turn purple this month.

Nov 27, 2023

The Dr. Edwin G. & Dorothy Balbach Davis Global Center marks Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month.

UNMC history: Three times a centennial

The College of Medicine has marked three different significant centennials – in 1969, 1980 and 2002.

Nov 20, 2023

In 1969, college of medicine organizers recognized a centennial to mark 100 years since the beginning of medical education in Omaha. Included in the centennial events was a symposium to discuss the future of medicine that featured George Beadle, at left, PhD, a Wahoo, Nebraska, native who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize for Physiology/Medicine.

Drs. Simonsen, Anderson Berry named to American Pediatric Society

APS members are recognized child health leaders of extraordinary achievement in academic pediatrics.

Nov 16, 2023

Kari Simonsen, MD, and Ann Anderson Berry, MD, PhD

Dr. Gundry named UNeMed’s Emerging Inventor

UNeMed also named its Startup of the Year and the Most Promising New Invention of 2023.

Nov 13, 2023

Rebekah Gundry, PhD, in her lab on the 12th floor of the Lied Transplant Center

McGoogan Library online exhibit on Dr. Truhlsen opens today

‘A Life Well Lived: Remembering Dr. Stanley M. Truhlsen’ online exhibit opens as longtime UNMC supporter’s birthday is celebrated.

Nov 13, 2023

Stanley Truhlsen, MD

Colleagues remember UNMC’s James Chapin, MD

Dr. Chapin recalled as a mentor and ‘true pioneer in transplant anesthesia.’

Nov 13, 2023

James Chapin, MD, in 2012

UNMC for the record, Nov. 10, 2023

Two award announcements, an ‘Eye-Scream’ event, an upcoming BHECN forum, a Center for Healthy Living special and food vendors.

Nov 10, 2023

Skyler Maclean, P4 class president for the UNMC College of Pharmacy, and Joseph Vetro, PhD, associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences