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Allied health faculty, students honored
The School of Allied Health Professions recently surprised three faculty members — Ricki Otten, Joseph Norman, Ph.D., and Pat Leuschen, Ph.D. — by honoring them with awards for outstanding teaching, research and service to allied health.
Apr 25, 2008
REPORT: Health care workforce too small for aging baby boomers
Jane Potter, M.D., and her colleagues have long known that America will face a shortage of geriatricians if drastic measures aren’t taken.
Apr 24, 2008
Artists, musicians and others raise funds for VA wheelchair games
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System and the Great Plains Paralyzed Veterans of America will host “A Night at the Bemis” fundraiser May 17 to benefit the 28th National Veterans Wheelchair Games, which will come to Omaha this summer.
Apr 24, 2008
Dr. Lomneth receives Outstanding Teacher Award
She had planned to be a forest ranger until she landed in an Illinois cornfield. As she gazed out over the field, where she and other undergraduates had been assigned to build a nature trail, Carol Lomneth, Ph.D., knew this wasn’t the career she had in mind.
Apr 24, 2008
Quick, think of five things others should know about you. That’s the theme behind a series in UNMC Today called “Lookin’ at U.” Each Thursday, we will randomly select a medical center employee to feature. This week, we feature Karen Sum, an office associate in the department of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery.
Apr 24, 2008
Dr. Evans chosen for national psychology award
Joe Evans, Ph.D., would have been happy just to be compared to those he considers to be the best in the business of psychology. Now, the director of psychology at the Munroe-Meyer Institute and professor in the department of pediatrics at UNMC is among the best.
Apr 23, 2008
Dr. Kiyota receives 2008 Oldfield Award
Vada Kinman Oldfield would have turned 98 on Monday. And so — as has happened every year near her birthday since her death in 1999 — a UNMC researcher received the Vada Kinman Oldfield Alzheimer’s Research Award. This year’s recipient was Tomomi Kiyota, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher in the UNMC Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience.
Apr 23, 2008
Vicki Hamm receives Chancellor’s Gold U for April
For the past 32 years, Vicki Hamm has been the point person to thousands of residents who make UNMC their home for specialty training stretches lasting one to eight years.
Apr 23, 2008
Dr. Neumeister earns Outstanding Teaching Award
Take a negative and turn it into a positive. That’s the task the UNMC College of Medicine faced three years ago after the sudden death of legendary educator LeeRoy Meyer, M.D. One of the faculty members who answered the call was Scott Neumeister, M.D.
Apr 23, 2008
SHARING The Trail event a success
The fourth annual SHARING the Trail 5K run/walk took place on April 5 at Miller’s Landing Park to benefit the student-run SHARING Clinics at UNMC.
Apr 23, 2008