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Haven receives Chancellor’s Gold U Award
During her 34 years in the lab, Mary Haven tested household detergents, fecal fats, trace metals and more than 200 different analytes in blood and body fluids. Today, the chemist-turned-teacher-turned administrator is poised to guide UNMC’s School of Allied Health Professions (SAHP) into a national leader in distance learning. For her efforts, she has been awarded the Chancellor’s Gold ‘U’ Award.
Apr 29, 2004
April Silver U recipients announced
To find out this month’s recipients of the Chancellor’s Silver ‘U’ Award click on Reward and Recognition (the left hand side of UNMC Today) and scroll to the Silver ‘U’ section.
Apr 29, 2004
A HIPAA message — spring cleaning
HIPAA, the “Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996,” provides federal protection of patient health information. This HIPAA-related message is part of UNMC’s continued effort to educate employees. Today’s HIPAA message addresses safeguards in cleaning out files.
Apr 29, 2004
Aging expert to give Harman lecture on Friday
One of the world’s most-acclaimed scientists will be at UNMC on Friday, April 30, to deliver the Third Annual Denham Harman, M.D., Ph.D., Lectureship in Biomedical Gerontology. Bruce Ames, Ph.D., professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and senior research scientist at the Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, will present “A Role for Supplements in Optimizing Health and Delaying Aging: The Metabolic Tune-up.”
Apr 29, 2004
Kaleidoscope sets attendance, fund-raising records
A record number of people raised a record amount of money at this year’s Kaleidoscope, an annual fund-raiser used by the University Hospital Auxiliary to support programs that benefit patients and families at The Nebraska Medical Center.
Apr 28, 2004
Bicycling Club forms at UNMC; inaugural expo May 6
The newly formed UNMC Bicycling Club is hosting its Inaugural Cycling Expo from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 6, at the Durham Outpatient Center West Atrium. The expo is an opportunity for employees to learn all kinds of information regarding bicycling from professionals on the subjects.
Apr 28, 2004
Dr. Sorrell honored for research, education, health care
Nebraskans for Research recently honored Michael Sorrell, M.D., professor and section chief of gastroenterology and hepatology at UNMC, for his landmark contributions to research, education and health care. More than 290 community leaders attended Monday’s Tribute to Research luncheon.
Apr 28, 2004
AHEC Advisory Board holds semi-annual meeting at UNMC
The statewide Area Health Education Center Advisory Board members traveled across Nebraska last week to meet at UNMC a semi-annual meetings. The centers were created through federal grants as a way in which medical schools and community centers can cooperate to recruit and train health care professionals to serve in rural areas.
Apr 27, 2004
Maurers to receive People of Vision Award on May 4
Chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D., and his wife, Beverly, have won their share of individual awards over the years. The award that the Maurers will receive next month, however, is especially meaningful, as it will mark the first time they’ve been honored as a couple. The Maurers have been named as the recipients of this year’s People of Vision Award from Prevent Blindness Nebraska.
Apr 27, 2004
Omaha family celebrates first birthday of ‘miracle’ baby
When you have a family of 11 children, the addition of another child can become somewhat of a routine event. But, such was hardly the case for Rabbi Mendel Katzman and his wife, Shani, when child No. 12 arrived last year at The Nebraska Medical Center.
Apr 26, 2004