Press Release
Pen Pal Relationship Sparks Career in Nursing
A pen pal relationship between a studious fifth-grader at Druid Hill Elementary School and a 79-year old senior citizen bore the ultimate fruit in May when Dorothea Peak graduated from the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing with a bachelor’s degree. In 1989, Peak and other Druid Hill fifth-graders were encouraged to write […]
Aug 3, 2001
UNMC Graduate Serves Her Own People
Cindy Jacobs often dreamed of visiting far-away lands growing up as the youngest of seven on the Pine Ridge Reservation. “I always thought I would join the Air Force because I wanted to go places,” said the young woman in a white lab coat. “I wanted to go to different countries.” But pulled by family […]
Aug 3, 2001
UNMC’s Sleep Medicine Fellowship Training Program Accredited
The sleep medicine fellowship training program at the University of Nebraska Medical Center recently received national accreditation from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. The program is the only one of its kind in the Midwest. “Sleep medicine is a relatively new area of medicine and we’re extremely pleased to be one of the few […]
Aug 1, 2001
Vitamin E and Selenium to be Tested as Prevention Agents
Several Omaha Health Care Providers to Participate in Largest-Ever Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial Healthy men age 55 and older are needed for the largest-ever prostate cancer prevention study, launched today by the National Cancer Institute. The Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial, or SELECT, seeks to learn if these two dietary supplements can […]
Jul 24, 2001
Gothenburg Native Follows Heart, Earns Annual UNMC Award
Three years out of high school, Daniel Anderson, M.D., Ph.D., chose to follow his heart. It led him to cardiovascular medicine. Now, 17 years later and at the end of his three-year internal medicine residency at UNMC, Dr. Anderson has been named the House Officer of the Year in the College of Medicine. He was […]
Jul 20, 2001
Board of Regents will be asked to approve interim appointment at July 28 meeting;
Newly Created Vice Chancellor for Research Position to Oversee UNMC’s Research Enterprise With the ever-increasing prominence of research in the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s vision and strategic priorities, Chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D., has created the new position of vice chancellor for research at UNMC. Dr. Maurer has formed a search committee to be […]
Jul 19, 2001
Research to Prevent Blindness Awards Carl Camras, M.D. $220,000 Grant
Carl Camras, M.D., professor and chairman of the University of Nebraska Medical Center Department of Ophthalmology, has received a second, four-year $220,000 Research to Prevent Blindness Challenge Grant. The grant is awarded to strengthen the development of pilot and on-going research programs. Dr. Camras received the first grant for $200,000 in 1997. RPB is the […]
Jul 17, 2001
Mark Rupp, M.D., an infectious disease specialist for the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Nebraska Health System, has been elected as the academic counselor for the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). His two-year term on the SHEA board of directors begins next January. SHEA is comprised of approximately 1,500 members, representing 41 […]
Jul 16, 2001
Governor Mike Johanns re-enacted the signing of legislative bill (LB) 692 on Thursday morning at the Durham Outpatient Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. Nebraskans representing each of the designated beneficiaries of the states proceeds from the national tobacco settlement participated in the event. LB 692 authorizes the distribution of approximately […]
Jul 12, 2001
Greeted by the gentle sounds of a trickling waterfall against soft music, visitors to the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s new Lifestyle Enhancement Center leave their troubles at the door. Unlike most medical environments, the patient lobby has a soothing atmosphere, which is carried throughout the 7,500 square-foot center. On Saturday, June 23, the public […]
Jun 13, 2001