Press Release
Former Holdrege resident receives scholarship for his Alzheimer’s research at UNMC
Daniel Flaherty of Holdrege, Neb., a pharmaceutical sciences graduate student at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, recently became the fourth recipient of the Nancy and Ronald Reagan Alzheimer’s Scholarship Fund Award for his research into potential pharmaceutical therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease. A 2001 graduate of Holdrege High School, Flaherty is the son of […]
Apr 23, 2008
Bellevue resident receives Chancellor’s Gold U Award at UNMC
For the past 32 years, Vicki Hamm has been the point person to thousands of residents who make the University of Nebraska Medical Center their home during specialty training stretches lasting one to eight years. As administrator of the Graduate Medical Education (GME) Program in UNMC’s College of Medicine, Hamm advises each resident on […]
Apr 23, 2008
Milton Zadina, M.D., named Outstanding Preceptor in Rural Family Medicine
Milton Zadina, M.D., named Outstanding Preceptor in Rural Family Medicine Patient, friendly, kind. That’s how Columbus, Neb., family physician, Milton Zadina, M.D., is regarded by the numerous students who’ve had the opportunity to precept under him. “He’s very approachable, very interested in his students,” said Lucas McKnight, a fourth-year medical student at UNMC who spent […]
Apr 22, 2008
Jane Potter, M.D., and her fellow colleagues have known for a long time that America will be faced with a shortage of geriatricians if drastic measures aren’t taken. Dr. Potter, immediate past president of the American Geriatrics Society and chief of geriatrics and gerontology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, hopes the federal and […]
Apr 21, 2008
UNMC opens the region’s only low vision center today
A grand opening ceremony for the region’s only not-for-profit comprehensive center for visual rehabilitation of adults and children took place today at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. The $1.2 million Weigel Williamson Center for Visual Rehabilitation, at 38th Avenue and Jones Street, will provide a hub for low-vision services in the region. […]
Apr 16, 2008
UNMC physician helps create national guidelines for ICU patients developing fevers
A University of Nebraska Medical Center infectious disease specialist, Andre Kalil, M.D., was one of 11 experts from around the country to develop guidelines for what physicians should do when critically ill patients develop a new fever. The guidelines appear in the current issue of Critical Care Medicine, the leading medical journal for health professionals […]
Apr 11, 2008
Susan Wilhelm, Ph.D., has been named as assistant dean of the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing West Nebraska Division, located in Scottsbluff. She began serving as interim assistant dean in June of 2006. The UNMC College of Nursing is located in Omaha with divisions in Scottsbluff, Kearney and Lincoln. The division […]
Apr 10, 2008
UNMC Neurological Sciences chairman helps lead study comparing stenting vs. surgery
A University of Nebraska Medical Center physician, Pierre Fayad, M.D., was one of six researchers on the executive committee for a major national study that compared stenting and surgery in high-risk patients with significant narrowing of the carotid artery and found that there is no significant difference in the long-term outcomes of these patients three […]
Apr 9, 2008
Four UNMC faculty members honored by College of Medicine
The University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine recently honored four faculty members for their outstanding work. Three physicians – Lloyd Holm, D.O., William Thorell, M.D., and Ake Nystrom, M.D., Ph.D. – received Clinical Excellence Awards for their outstanding clinical skills in education, clinical practice and innovation in medicine. The awards, which […]
Apr 8, 2008
UNMC and Creighton to Host “Kicks For a Cure” Women’s Soccer Event
UNMC’s Eppley Cancer Center and Creighton University plan to score more points in the fight against women’s cancers with the third annual Kicks for a Cure event. The two-day event will take place on April 18-19 at Creighton University’s Michael G. Morrison, S.J., Stadium in Omaha. The theme of this year’s event is “8 […]
Apr 4, 2008