Press Release
UNMC, ConAgra Foods co-sponsor free community health fair Oct. 18
A free community health fair for metropolitan area residents will be held Oct. 18 from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Metropolitan Community College South Campus. For the fifth consecutive year, UNMC and ConAgra Foods will co-sponsor the south Omaha community health fair. Participants will receive health information and screenings that include: blood […]
Oct 16, 2008
UNMC, Latino Center of the Midlands lead Latina Latino youth conference
UNMC will host the 18th Annual Latina Latino Youth Conference Friday, Oct. 17. The event, co-sponsored with the Latino Center of the Midlands, brings more than 250 area high school students from Nebraska and Iowa, along with 30 counselors, teachers and volunteers, to the Michael F. Sorrell Center for Health Science Education to educate students about resources available […]
Oct 15, 2008
UNMC College of Dentistry celebrates new endowed faculty fellowships
Demand for quality dental faculty remains high across the United States, and John Reinhardt, D.D.S., dean of the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s College of Dentistry, estimates there are 400 full-time faculty positions currently available. Reinhardt told a group of college supporters on Oct. 2 that recruiting and retaining top dental faculty at UNMC’s […]
Oct 13, 2008
Omaha to join other U.S. cities, Mexico to co-sponsor Bi-National Health Week Oct. 13-18
Because millions of Mexican immigrants rely on the American health system for their daily needs, a group of Omaha health providers and social service agencies are sponsoring an annual Bi-National Health Week, Oct. 13-18. Various issues are highlighted through a week of education, screenings and fun for the entire family. (See detailed list below). […]
Oct 10, 2008
Dr. Wadman to lead UNMC emergency medicine education efforts
Michael Wadman, M.D., has been named vice chairman of education in the University of Nebraska Medical Center Department of Emergency Medicine. The appointment was announced today by the department’s chairman Robert Muelleman, M.D. Dr. Wadman, an associate professor of emergency medicine, assumed his new role earlier this summer and now oversees educational activities for students […]
Oct 10, 2008
UNMC researchers enjoy record quarter in research funding
University of Nebraska Medical Center researchers have netted $32.2 million in research funding for the first quarter of fiscal year 2008-2009, by the far the highest total ever obtained by medical center researchers during a single quarter. The previous highest total for a quarter was $26.4 million set in 2004. In the first quarter of […]
Oct 9, 2008
News releases are archived on the UNMC Web site at: https://app1.unmc.edu/publicaffairs/newsarchive/releases.cfm The American Academy of Periodontology (AAP) Foundation has awarded a $50,000 AAP Teaching Fellowship to Matthew Byarlay, D.D.S., assistant professor in the Department of Surgical Specialties at the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s College of Dentistry. “I am very pleased that Dr. […]
Oct 9, 2008
Four receive awards at UNMC Alumni Reunion
Four distinguished alumni were honored at the University of Nebraska Medical Center Alumni Reunion Weekend on Sept. 19-20 in Omaha. The honorees and their awards included: UNMC College of Medicine Alumni Association Distinguished Alumnus Award – Paul Young, M.D., Lexington, Ky., Class of 1958; UNMC College of Nursing Alumni Association Distinguished Alumnus Award – […]
Oct 9, 2008
UNMC psychiatrist: Amid financial crisis, remember the basics
In what has become a regular headline in recent weeks, the stock market plunged again on Monday and Tuesday, sending yet another wave of fear through the collective hearts of Americans who are worried about their financial futures. The recent news from the financial world has dredged up fear across the globe and fiscal worries […]
Oct 8, 2008
The research group led by the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Tony Hollingsworth, Ph.D., is known to tackle complex scientific problems. Their latest discovery sheds light on how tumor cells interact and survive during the process of metastasis, when they end up in unusual environments (such as when a cell from the pancreas colonizes the […]
Oct 7, 2008