College of Medicine

Stemming the mental health crisis in rural America

With rural psychiatrists in short supply, new program is geared to primary care providers It’s estimated that more than half of all U.S. mental health care takes place at the primary care level and that percentage jumps considerably in rural areas where there often are no mental health practitioners for hundreds of miles. New online […]

Mar 28, 2012

Howard Liu, M.D.

100 hearts

Read about the 100th transplant performed by The Nebraska Medical Center’s heart team.

Mar 27, 2012

Dr. Bonasera named Gilmore Award recipient

Do what you love. Get friends to call you on your crap. Exercise. Expect rejection but fight on anyway. Read on to learn what else Gilmore Award recipient Stephen Bonasera, M.D., Ph.D., says is important to be successful as a researcher.

Mar 26, 2012

Dr. Talmon receives Class of 1962 Award

Geoffery Talmon, M.D., assistant professor of pathology and microbiology, received the College of Medicine Class of 1962 Basic Science Outstanding Teacher award at last week’s College of Medicine AOA/Faculty Honors Convocation.

Mar 26, 2012

New adolescent/young adult cancer guidelines released

UNMC’s Peter Coccia, M.D., leads panel that develops new guidelines.

Mar 23, 2012

New cancer guidelines developed for adolescent and young adult (AYA) age group

UNMC oncologist heads panel trying to improve outcomes in difficult-to-treat group A University of Nebraska Medical Center pediatric oncologist, Peter F. Coccia, M.D., served as chairman of a national panel that developed new guidelines for the diagnosis, treatment, and after therapy for adolescents and young adults with cancer. The adolescent and young adult (AYA) group […]

Mar 19, 2012

Peter F. Coccia, M.D.

‘Unmatched’ inspiration

Watch fourth year medical student Kylee Stanley and others learn where they will do residencies during UNMC’s Match Day ceremony at 11 a.m.

Mar 16, 2012

114 UNMC senior medical students receive residency assignments

114 UNMC senior medical students received their residency assignments today during a Match Day ceremony held on campus.

Mar 16, 2012

First EMET class wraps up challenging med school trek

Today, Michael Carter and 13 other members of the College of Medicine’s first Enhanced Medical Education Tracks (EMET) cohort will present their capstone projects.

Mar 15, 2012

Primary care, research and rural medicine rise in U.S.News rankings

UNMC’s primary care and rural medicine education programs rose in the 2013 U.S.News & World Report rankings of the nation’s top graduate schools.

Mar 13, 2012

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