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With more than 150 team members dressed in matching red T-shirts, the UNMC and The Nebraska Medical Center team showed strong support for the 2003 Komen Nebraska Race for the Cure on Sunday. The Nebraska Medical Center and UNMC Eppley Cancer Center also was a bronze sponsor of the event.

Oct 7, 2003

Pediatrician shares lessons with students

Terry Wooldridge, M.D., hopes third-year medical students who rotate through his pediatric clinic remember three primary lessons. Dr. Wooldridge is one of this year’s College of Medicine Volunteer Faculty of the Month award recipients.

Oct 7, 2003

UNMC kicks off its United Way campaign

Today, UNMC kicks off its United Way campaign with a goal of $125,000. Campaign contributions, which can be made through UNMC’s payroll deduction, help support more than 145 health and human service programs across the Omaha-Council Bluffs-Bellevue metropolitan areas.

Oct 6, 2003

Physician assistants honored nationally

UNMC’s physician assistant program was still in its infancy when Mark Christiansen joined nearly 30 years ago. Today — National PA Day — he and other PAs will be honored for the quality care they provide to millions of Americans.

Oct 6, 2003

Energy conservation project to begin Oct. 13

Beginning the week of Oct. 13, an energy conservation project will begin in the College of Nursing and will proceed at later dates in the College of Pharmacy and the Eppley Science Hall. The project will involve the replacement and/or repair of existing lighting fixtures.

Oct 6, 2003

Doing GREAT benefits students, youths with developmental disabilities

A growing number of students are participating in Doing GREAT – an acronym for Graduating with Resources, Education, Awareness and Training. The program allows high school students to assist children ages 3 to 21 with developmental disabilities.

Oct 3, 2003

Williams honored with Lifetime Achievement award

When Bud Shaw, M.D., came to UNMC in 1985 from Pittsburgh to establish the liver transplant program, he knew of no better person to bring along than Laurel Williams, R.N., M.S.N., manager of the Liver and Intestinal Coordinators Organ Transplantation Program. Earlier this year, Williams was given the Novartis Lifetime Achievement award from the North American Transplant Coordinator’s Organization.

Oct 3, 2003

Graduate training coordinator retires after 35 years

Mary Ann Casey will give a bittersweet farewell to friends and colleagues at UNMC — a place she has called her second home for the past 35 years. She retires today as coordinator of graduate training in UNMC’s family medicine department.

Oct 3, 2003

Scientists reach consensus on key scientific issues related to perchlorate

The 2003 Perchlorate State-of-the-Science Symposium concluded Wednesday in Omaha, with leading scientists verbally presenting their consensus reports on some of the most recent scientific studies on perchlorate. The significance of these results is that it questions the basic assumptions of a number of recent and influential government efforts to assess the safe level of perchlorate exposure.

Oct 3, 2003

System designed to prepare community in case of disaster

In recent years, terrorism has become an everyday threat in the United States. As a result, many agencies and organizations have formed disaster plans in the event of a weapons of mass destruction event. One of these organizations, the Omaha Metropolitan Medical Response System (OMMRS) has worked since 1998 to prepare the medical community in case such an event occurs.

Oct 2, 2003