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Read the plan for influenza vaccination of UNMC, UMA and The Nebraska Medical Center staff and patients.
Sep 28, 2004
Distinguished chair honors medical educator
Former UNMC students often describe Leon Davis, D.D.S., M.D., as a man of great intelligence, few words and high expectations. Today, these graduates will share more than a few words of gratitude with the man, whom they believe, has built the oral and maxillofacial surgery residency program at UNMC into what it is today — one of the best in the country.
Sep 28, 2004
Dr. Singh receives Chancellor’s Gold U Award
Sanjay Singh, M.D., is fascinated by the brain’s cortex, the gray matter that makes individuals uniquely human. “A person lives in his cortex,” said Dr. Singh, the state’s first trained epileptologist. “It’s where they think from, it’s where their personality and emotions reside and it’s also the area that gives rise to epilepsy.”
Sep 27, 2004
UNMC program mentors North Omaha teens
The fifth annual Stepping Forward/Reaching Back, a youth mentoring workshop, offered more than 60 minority middle and high school students a good look at what it takes to pursue a health professions career.
Sep 27, 2004
Silver U receipients announced for September
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.
Sep 27, 2004
Olson Center brown bag lectures feed minds
Once a month, over yogurt, turkey sandwiches and salads, the predominately female audience meets to learn about an array of health issues from aging to nutrition to pregnancy. The Olson Center for Women’s Health brown bag lectures have been growing in popularity.
Sep 24, 2004
Diversity expert acknowledges UNMC program at Washington news conference
The chairman of a national commission looking into how more minority students can be directed into the health professions cited a unique partnership spearheaded by UNMC as one example of how academic health science centers can address the diversity shortage at a news conference Monday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Sep 24, 2004
Ambassador of Hope Gala set for Nov. 5
On Nov. 5, the Friends of the UNMC Eppley Cancer Center will honor Omaha philanthropist Chuck Durham at its Ambassador of Hope Gala at the Qwest Center Omaha.
Sep 23, 2004
Docudrama about chemical attack being produced
The Nebraska Center for Bioterrorism Education, a service of UNMC, Creighton University, and Nebraska Health and Human Services, is producing an educational docudrama about bio-terrorism.
Sep 22, 2004
Family medicine students showcase their research
A research poster display in the Durham Outpatient Center’s second-floor atrium highlights the work of UNMC students who have completed their family medicine rotation.
Sep 21, 2004