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Spotlight on new faculty – meet Ashish Sharma, M.D.
Ashish Sharma, M.D., instructor in the UNMC Department of Psychiatry, is among the many new faculty members on the UNMC campus.
Jul 12, 2006
Specialized filtering process helps kidney donors, recipients
The wait for a kidney transplant was beginning to feel like an eternity for 59-year-old Jerry Schueler. The Omaha man had been on dialysis for five years and was getting weaker and losing more weight everyday. Learn how he became the first patient to receive a blood type incompatible kidney transplant at The Nebraska Medical Center.
Jul 11, 2006
Children, parents find ‘second chance’ through transplantation
A devastating hurricane forced Dusti Holloway and her family north. Health issues that started at birth led Elizabeth Taibel to Omaha. Two little girls — two families — faced challenges that brought them to the medical center for a transplant.
Jul 11, 2006
Transplant survivors gather for annual reunion
Henry Mollett is celebrating his second chance at life. Today, the 68-year-old Council Bluffs man is 100 pounds lighter and feeling 30 years younger after receiving a liver transplant at The Nebraska Medical Center in April 2005. Meet some of the individuals who attended this weekend’s transplant reunion.
Jul 11, 2006
Patients with West Nile needed for clinical trial
Roger and Nancy DeBlauw began last summer like any other, enjoying time on their farm in Crofton, Neb. But their world changed in late July 2005 when Roger became critically ill after contracting West Nile virus. Now, he is participating in a National Institutes of Health-sponsored clinical trial of a potential treatment. The trial is being conducted regionally by UNMC.
Jul 10, 2006
Medical student’s charity golf tournament honors dad
Aaron Braun is walking in his father’s charitable footsteps. The fourth-year UNMC medical student is days away from teeing off his third charity golf tournament in memory of his father, Marvin, who died of leukemia in 1996.
Jul 7, 2006
Munroe-Meyer Guild raises $39,000 at garden walk, faire
The Munroe-Meyer Guild sold nearly 1,900 tickets and raised $39,000 at this year’s Garden Walk and Garden Faire.
Jul 7, 2006
Dr. Foxall retires from nursing profession
Martha Foxall, Ph.D., has dedicated her life to nursing education. She will retire today – after the summer class she teaches ends – with a 54-year investment in the nursing profession. The past 26 years have been in the UNMC College of Nursing.
Jul 7, 2006
Regents chairman releases statement regarding Hergert decision
James E. McClurg, chairman of the University of Nebraska Board of Regents, released a statement today (Friday) regarding the Nebraska Supreme Court’s ruling that C. David Hergert be removed from the office of regent.
Jul 7, 2006
Transplant reunion brings Olympian to Omaha
More than 1,000 people — including 300 transplant patients from 19 states — plan to attend this weekend’s 2006 Transplant Reunion. Olympic bronze medalist Chris Klug will be the honored guest at the event, which celebrates 36 years of organ transplants in Omaha.
Jul 6, 2006