College of Medicine

Distinguished Scientist: St. Patrick Reid, PhD

Dr. Reid is an associate professor in the UNMC Department of Pathology and Microbiology.

Nov 2, 2023

St. Patrick Reid, PhD

UNMC leaders break ground on CORE Building

Construction on the ‘game changer’ of a facility at the corner of Saddle Creek Road and Farnam Street should take until early 2026.

Nov 1, 2023

From left, Rebekah Gundry, PhD, director, UNMC Center for Heart and Vascular Research; Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert; UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD; Ken Bayles, PhD, vice chancellor for research at UNMC; and Michael Dixon, PhD, president and CEO of UNeMed Corporation, break ground on the CORE (Campus Operations and Research Excellence) Building, which will serve as a cornerstone of UNMC’s new Saddle Creek Campus at the corner of Saddle Creek Road and Farnam Street.

New faculty spotlight: Sias Scherger, MD

Dr. Scherger is an assistant professor in the UNMC Division of Infectious Diseases

Nov 1, 2023

Sias Scherger, MD

Dr. Rupp to step down as infectious diseases chief

Mark Rupp, MD, is lauded as an outstanding leader at the forefront of the med center’s infectious disease efforts.

Oct 31, 2023

Mark Rupp, MD

Distinguished Scientist: Joseph Khoury, MD

Dr. Khoury is the Stokes-Shackleford Professor and Chair of the UNMC Department of Pathology and Microbiology.

Oct 31, 2023

Joseph Khoury, MD

New faculty spotlight: Rebecca Rimsza, MD

Dr. Rimsza is an assistant professor in the UNMC Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Oct 30, 2023

Rebecca Rimsza, MD

Global Center for Health Security team travels to Puerto Rico

UNMC experts worked with health care collaborators in Puerto Rico on infectious disease exercises and the ISTARI isolation system.

Oct 27, 2023

David Brett-Major, MD, and Jana Broadhurst, MD PhD

Public health lab is new center of excellence on wastewater testing

Ceres Nanosciences is working with the Nebraska Public Health Laboratory through an NIH initiative.

Oct 27, 2023

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UNMC for the record, Oct. 27, 2023

One more ‘Operation Immunization’ clinic is set, UNMC’s Nada Fadul, MD, is named to a national board, and the food vendor schedule for the week.

Oct 27, 2023

UNMC joins western U.S. partners in infectious disease training

The infection prevention and control exercise in Alaska and Washington involved UNMC’s ISTARI system.

Oct 25, 2023

The exercises simulating an ill patient with a likely highly communicable disease spanned from Fairbanks and Anchorage, Alaska, to Spokane, Washington.
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