InterCOM
COM Student of the Month – Joshua Gruhl, third-year medical student
I grew up in Lincoln, attended East High School, and then received a bachelor’s degree in business from Colorado State University (Go Rams!). After working in finance for four years in Denver, I realized that I was searching for something more in my life and decided to follow my childhood interest in health and science – combined with my passion for meeting new people and forming long-term relationships – and pursue a career in medicine.
Aug 21, 2014
Explaining the butt buzz
A co-worker asked me, “Why is my hip buzzing?” She was relaxed, sitting in a side chair but could point to a small spot on her thigh that was spontaneously tingling. She said it would come and go, a few seconds each time.
Aug 21, 2014
Construction update
Several of the pedestrian walkways have been removed around the Lozier Center for Pharmacy Sciences & Education/UNMC Center for Drug Discovery construction site. The contractor, Hausmann Construction Company, is putting up a construction fence around the job site, which will require pedestrians to find a new route between the Sorrell Center and the Student Life Center.
Aug 21, 2014
Coming Events
Sept. 5 – Investiture for Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D., 10:30 a.m. ceremony at Joslyn Art Museum, Witherspoon Hall; 2:30 p.m. campus reception, Scott Student Plaza. Sept. 6 – SAHP Professionalism ceremony. Sept. 10 – New Faculty Orientation. Sept. 10-12 – UNMC hosts “Advancing Rural Primary Care,” a national conference on the effective use of […]
Aug 21, 2014
UNMC researcher plays key role in study featured Nature journal
By successfully creating a high quality genome of the rhesus macaque monkey, a University of Nebraska Medical Center researcher played a significant role in a study that appears in this week’s issue of the prestigious science journal Nature. The study in Nature determined that treating rhesus macaques that have SIV – the simian equivalent of HIV – with interventions that alter inflammatory responses can have dual effects on the development of disease.
Jul 28, 2014
COM Student of the Month – Larisa Akah, second-year medical student
I am a second-year medical student born and raised in Cameroon, Africa and moved to the USA in 2008. I attended Benson High School and obtained my undergraduate degree at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. UNO gave me the best four years an undergrad could ask for and I look forward to greater things here at UNMC. However, if I could do college over again, I’d probably go back and major in bioinformatics rather than general science which was my major.
Jul 28, 2014
UNMC, UNL receive $1.4 million U.S. Army grant to continue robotic surgery work
The University of Nebraska Medical Center and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have received a $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Army to continue work on robotic telesurgery research.
Jul 28, 2014
$10 million telehealth grant awarded to Med Center
For many patients, being diabetic can come with a laundry list of medical complications, many of which require repeated trips to the emergency room or extended stays in the hospital to remedy. And the cost of treating diabetes is staggering.
Jul 28, 2014
Anesthesiology department announces new divisions
To better focus its resources and ability to support the clinical enterprise, the acute care program and the cardiovascular program, the UNMC Department of Anesthesiology has formed two new divisions within the department, Chairman Steven Lisco, M.D., announced. The Division of Cardiac Anesthesiology will be led by Tara Brakke, M.D., and the Division of Anesthesiology Critical Care will be led by Daniel Johnson, M.D., Dr. Lisco said.
Jul 28, 2014