College of Medicine

UNMC team confirms COVID-19’s airborne transmission in leading scientific journal

UNMC’s findings on airborne transmission have passed scientific peer review and been accepted for publication by Nature’s Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology.

Aug 26, 2021

Joshua Santarpia, PhD

Pilot grant provides impetus for health inequities curriculum

A recently published paper described the development of the curriculum.

Aug 26, 2021

From left, Rohan Khazanchi and Jasmine Marcelin, MD

Resident of the month

Tyler Evans, MD, a dermatology resident, is a former wide receiver for the Nebraska Cornhuskers.

Aug 26, 2021

Tyler Evans, MD

Fellowship program director of the month

Dr. Green Hines is the director of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program.

Aug 26, 2021

Andrea Green Hines, MD

COM employee of the month

Karle Olnes is the administrative business associate for the UNMC Department of Dermatology.

Aug 26, 2021

Karle Olnes

New faculty

Twenty-eight new faculty members have joined the UNMC College of Medicine.

Aug 26, 2021

Prasanth Ravipati, MD

Research highlights

The UNMC College of Medicine received grant and funding awards representing $11,037,387 in new funding in June.

Aug 26, 2021

Xinglong Wang, PhD

MD-PhD program supports future physician-scientists

The program continues to evolve to serve the medical students who can’t bear to leave the lab.

Aug 26, 2021

Linda Huynh is an MD-PhD student who will be moving into the lab next year.

COM holds design thinking workshop for students

Theme of event was ‘interprofessional care.’

Aug 26, 2021

Kate Fiandt, PhD, of the UNMC College of Nursing, was one of the faculty members who worked with medical students at the workshop.

Immersive Spanish course adapts for COVID-19

COM DEI teams with the Office of Global Engagement to continue the course despite travel bans.

Aug 26, 2021

Sara Pirtle, at right, with a tour guide (third from left) and students in Xalapa in 2019.