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New advisory board named for clinical enterprise

Will oversee The Nebraska Medical Center, UNMC Physicians, Bellevue Medical Center

Three connected but administratively separate organizations – The Nebraska Medical Center, UNMC Physicians and Bellevue Medical Center – are becoming one enterprise, and a new advisory board has been created to provide advice, support and eventually oversight.

Jan 23, 2014

New clinical enterprise leadership announced

Clinical enterprise president Bradley Britigan, M.D., and CEO Bill Dinsmoor announced the new executive leadership structure for the organization during a series of forums earlier this month. Both said the new leadership structure is built for the future of health care reform.

Jan 23, 2014

Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center – Construction update; style guide available

Excavation work is well under way and the footprint of the new Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center is starting to take shape.

The following notifications will be posted as changes occur, and we ask that you mention these updates to your colleagues.

Jan 23, 2014

Research highlights

Javeed Iqbal, Ph.D., pathology and microbiology, received a three-year, $600,000 grant from the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to study somatic mutations and epimutations in peripheral T-cell lymphoma

Jan 23, 2014

Industry-sponsored grants

Uriel Sandkovsky, M.D., internal medicine – infectious diseases, for a study comparing the safety and effectiveness of a new antiviral single dose combination given once daily with conventional antiviral combination therapies in HIV-1, ART naïve women. Dr. Sandkovsky will lead the sole Nebraska site for this study which is currently recruiting participants.

Jan 23, 2014

Uriel Sandkovsky, M.D.

UNMC study results encouraging for women with recurrent ovarian cancer

A new study by UNMC and Roswell Park Cancer Institute shows that a combination treatment strategy may provide a new option for patients with recurrent ovarian cancer.

Jan 23, 2014

Adam Karpf, Ph.D.

Department Profile – Division of Geriatric Medicine, Internal Medicine

Division Chair: Jane Potter, M.D.

Number of people in the division:
•UNMC employees: 8 faculty + 1 fellow + 14 staff = 23 total
•UNMC Physicians employees: 6 staff

Jan 23, 2014

Jane Potter, M.D.

UNMC physician serves as advisor to TV program

Fans of the televised drama “Nashville” may have been affected by the pregnancy storyline that Kimberly Williams-Paisley’s character, Peggy Kenter, underwent earlier this year — but they may not have known that some of the medical nuts and bolts behind that storyline were supplied by UNMC’s Paul Paulman, M.D., family medicine.

Jan 23, 2014

Paul Paulman, M.D.

Industry-sponsored contracts

The following industry-sponsored contracts also were received. Here is more information on clinical trials enrolling patients at UNMC.

Lori Maness-Harris, M.D., internal medicine – oncology/hematology, is the UNMC lead for a study on the effectiveness of a new antibody-drug conjugate that targets a cell surface marker on B-cell malignancies. Dr. Maness Harris will serve as the sole Nebraska site for this study, which is currently recruiting participants.

Dec 19, 2013

What’s in a burp?

By Michael Huckabee, Ph.D., professor and director of the UNMC physician assistant program. Dr. Huckabee writes a blog for the Omaha World-Herald’s LiveWell Nebraska website.

Dec 18, 2013

Michael Huckabee, Ph.D.