Health Security

UNMC welcomes assistant secretary of defense for tour

Lester Martínez-López, MD, commends the healthy relationship between the university and U.S. Department of Defense.

Nov 10, 2023

Lester Martínez-López, MD, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, tours iEXCEL and the Davis Global Center. (Photos by Nicholas Harnack, 55th Wing Public Affairs, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska)

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

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

A look back at the NU Board of Regents meeting at UNMC

Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, offered his congratulations and thanks to all who helped showcase UNMC.

Oct 26, 2023

Congressional staffers tour UNMC’s Davis Global Center

UNMC staff offer a firsthand look at some of the important federal initiatives on campus.

Oct 26, 2023

Staff members from the Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills, or C-STARS, led congressional staffers through an exercise donning and doffing personal protective equipment during a tour of the Davis Global Center.

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.

UNMC hosts dean of Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine

The med center partners with the school on the Center for Sustainment of Trauma Readiness Skills Omaha unit.

Oct 3, 2023

Ben Stobbe, assistant vice chancellor of clinical simulation for iEXCEL, led a tour of the Davis Global Center with Melanie Lazarus, EdD, dean of the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine.

UNMC and ASPR cut ribbon on national quarantine center

The event came nearly four years after the Training, Simulation and Quarantine Center opened, but also right on time.

Sep 26, 2023

Leaders from UNMC, the Global Center for Health Security and federal Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response cut the ribbon on the national Training, Simulation and Quarantine Center. From left are Chris Kratochvil, MD, UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, Nikki Bratcher-Bowman of ASPR, Shelly Schwedhelm, John-Martin Lowe, PhD, and James Lawler, MD.

UNMC forms task force to explore impact of AI

The working group, which crosses the campus and key clinical partners, is a critical step in understanding AI’s benefits and minimizing the risks.

Sep 20, 2023

Emily Glenn and Rachel Lookadoo, JD, co-chairs of the AI task force

UNMC for the record, Sept. 15, 2023

Bill Scott is a polka hall of famer, two upcoming continuing education events, a Sodexo offer and UNMC retirements.

Sep 15, 2023

Bill Scott, here playing his beloved trumpet at a 2011 UNMC event with his son, John, was inducted into the Sokol Omaha Polka Hall of Fame.