COVID-19

Chancellor: Still long way to go in COVID fight

But people on UNMC’s campuses are now more than 80% vaccinated.

Mar 31, 2021

From left, UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, and Ted Cieslak, MD, UNMC interim interim executive director for health security

Chancellor’s forum set for today at 3:15 p.m.

Ted Cieslak, MD, interim executive director for health security, will join Dr. Gold at the virtual event.

Mar 26, 2021

From left, UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, and Ted Cieslak, MD, UNMC interim executive director for health security

Post-COVID clinic to open next week

UNMC and Nebraska Medicine colleagues and families will receive first priority.

Mar 25, 2021

Volunteers needed for North Omaha vaccination clinic

The first clinic will be held this Saturday, March 27, from 2-6 p.m.

Mar 25, 2021

Andrea Jones, MD

Dr. Kratochvil named health security endowed chair

Christopher Kratochvil, MD, will be inaugural Global Center for Health Security Distinguished Chair.

Mar 24, 2021

Christopher Kratochvil, MD

Chancellor’s forum rescheduled to Friday

Ted Cieslak, MD, interim executive director for health security, will join Dr. Gold at the forum.

Mar 23, 2021

Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD

LiveGreen: N95 mask decontamination

The med center decontaminated N95 masks with ultraviolet light in order to reuse them.

Mar 23, 2021

Plans under way for safe re-opening of campus

University leaders are in close coordination with health experts and authorities during planning process.

Mar 22, 2021

Chancellor to hold virtual forum March 23

Ted Cieslak, MD, interim executive director for health security, and Aileen Warren, associate vice chancellor for human resources, will join Dr. Gold at the forum.

Mar 19, 2021

UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, will hold a campus forum on March 23.

UNMC’s Pete Iwen, PhD, is a vaccination veteran

Nervous about getting the COVID-19 vaccine? Dr. Iwen has been vaccinated for smallpox five times.

Mar 16, 2021

UNMC's Sharon Medcalf administers the smallpox vaccine to Pete Iwen, PhD, as Morgan Shradar from the biocontainment unit observes.
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