InterCOM

Drs. Florescu, MacTaggart receive Innovation Awards

Marius Florescu, M.D., took home the 2014 Emerging Inventor Award, while Jason MacTaggart, M.D., received the Most Promising New Invention Award during UNeMed’s eighth annual Innovation Awards ceremony.

Oct 30, 2014

UNMC physicians participate in Community Internship Program

Harris Frankel, M.D., neurological sciences, and Paul Paulman, M.D., family medicine, participated in the Community Internship Program through the Metro Omaha Medical Society.

Oct 30, 2014

Research Highlights

The following 16 awards representing nearly $5.5 million in new funding were awarded to the College of Medicine Faculty during the month of August.

Oct 30, 2014

COM Student of the Month – Gage Rensch, first-year medical student

Each month, InterCOM will highlight a “Student of the Month” from the College of Medicine. Students will be featured for their participation in activities outside of medical school and for making a difference in the community. The goal is to recognize students for what they are doing and to encourage other students to get involved in the community. After all, medical school should be much more than studying.

Oct 30, 2014

Five Things to Scream About

What is it about a high-pitched, blood-curdling scream that chills us to the bone? In this season of frights and scares, the shriek carries lots of messages.

Oct 30, 2014

Michael Huckabee, Ph.D., professor and director of the University of Nebraska Medical Center Division of Physician Assistant Education. Dr. Huckabee has 30 years’ experience as a physician assistant, mostly in rural Nebraska.

UNMC now shares logo with hospital partner, Nebraska Medicine

The Nebraska Medical Center, Bellevue Medical Center and UNMC Physicians – once three separate but interconnected organizations – are now one operating under one name: Nebraska Medicine.

Oct 30, 2014

Coming Events

Nov. 3-7 – International Week. Nov. 4 – Science Café, 7 p.m., Slowdown, 729 N. 14th St. Topic – Ebola; speaker – Ali Khan, M.D., M.P.H., dean of the UNMC College of Public Health. Nov. 4 – Joslyn Art Museum will host an Art Talk & Brown Bag Lunch event featuring its latest exhibit – […]

Oct 30, 2014

Dr. Sacra thanks med center health care team

“I wanted to wear my Husker shirt to this event,” Rick Sacra, M.D., told a crowd of reporters and members of his health care team, “but I was told it was not appropriate.”

Sep 29, 2014

New outpatient surgery, clinic and research facilities announced

Thanks to support from generous community donors, The Nebraska Medical Center and the University of Nebraska Medical Center are proud to announce plans for a new outpatient center at its midtown campus and at Village Pointe Medical Center.

Sep 29, 2014

Portion of 41st Street to be blocked

In an effort to extend alternate power feeder circuits to the new Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center and the existing Medical Sciences Building, Durham Outpatient Center and Munroe-Meyer Institute facilities, a portion of 41st street will be blocked to pedestrian and vehicular traffic.

Sep 29, 2014