InterCOM

116 UNMC senior medical students receive residency assignments

Match Day ceremony held on campus today

Mar 18, 2016

Orthopaedic surgery to host traveling fellowship

UNMC is serving as a host site for the first time.

Mar 17, 2016

Kevin Garvin, M.D.

U.S. News & World Report ranks UNMC No. 5 in primary care

Marks 2nd straight year among top 5 in country

Mar 17, 2016

Fitness center on track for August completion

Redesign will add more space, more options at the Center for Healthy Living.

Mar 15, 2016

Associate Director of Human Resources Jayme Nekuda documents the progress being made during a tour of the construction under way at the Center for Healthy Living.

UNMC aids in study on new diabetes drug

Pierre Fayad, M.D., was the local principal investigator of the study, which has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Mar 11, 2016

Pierre Fayad, M.D.

Remembering: Michael Brattain, Ph.D.

Colleagues mourn passing of nationally recognized leader in cancer research.

Mar 8, 2016

Madonna to open new hospital in Omaha

New hospital will have close ties to UNMC, Nebraska Medicine.

Mar 8, 2016

An artist's rendering of the new campus.

Oman group explores collaboration with med center

Members of delegation will give presentation at noon today.

Mar 3, 2016

From left, bottom row: Amr Soliman, M.D., Ph.D., chair, epidemiology, College of Public Health; Robert Chamberlain, Ph.D., research professor, College of Public Health; Lou Ann Linehan, consultant for Burlington Capital; Yuthar Mohammed Al Rawahy, Oman Cancer Association; Dr. Sultan Albalushi, an Oman representative; and Bruce Grogan, associate director, Center for Global Health & Development, College of Public Health; top row, Cory Shaw, chief operating officer, system network development, Enhance Health Network; Apar Ganti, M.D., associate professor, oncology-hematology; Dr. Talal Al-Balushi, Embassy of the Sultanate of Oman; Ward Chambers, M.D., executive director, international health and medical education, College of Public Health; Dr. Wahid Al Kharusi, Oman Cancer Association; and Dr. Saad Alshahrani, an Oman representative.

Virtual Incision mini-robots conduct first known human surgery

UNMC’s Dmitry Oleynikov, M.D., teams with UNL’s Shane Farritor, Ph.D., for miniaturized robotically assisted surgery.

Mar 1, 2016

Dmitry Oleynikov, M.D., a UNMC professor of surgery, operates a surgical robot as in the background Shane Farritor, Ph.D., a UNL engineering professor, adjusts the camera on the surgical subject in this 2015 photo illustration. The two developed the robot for minimally invasive surgeries. Their startup company, Virtual Incision, announced March 1 the first use of its miniaturized robot in human surgery.

New HSRA PhD Emphasis in Academic Family Medicine Approved

A new emphasis in Family Medicine has been approved. The emphasis is designed to train leaders in family medicine and health care administrators to aid with the development of the primary care system in China.

Feb 29, 2016

Yangyuna Yang is the first student in this new emphasis.