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UNMC grad’s life-saving team wins ESPY Award

The Buffalo Bills’ athletic training staff, led by 2004 UNMC graduate Nate Breske, DPT, jumped into action when Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field.

Jul 14, 2023

Nate Breske, DPT. (Image courtesy S.J. CARRERA INC.)

Dr. Fager named MMI’s director of speech-language pathology

Susan Fager, PhD, will join the UNMC Munroe-Meyer Institute in July.

Jul 14, 2023

Susan Fager, PhD

Dr. Johnson appointed assistant dean for nursing’s Northern Division

Angela Johnson, EdD, wants to increase the visibility of the college and its community engagement work.

Jul 10, 2023

Angela Johnson, EdD

UNMC for the record, July 7, 2023

The Nebraska Public Health Laboratory receives accreditation and awards, and other campus new items to note.

Jul 7, 2023

Staff of the Nebraska Public Health Laboratory

Dean’s message: Leadership changes

Welcoming new leaders to campus, and expanding the leadership voice of UNMC College of Medicine faculty members.

Jun 30, 2023

Bradley Britigan, MD

Changes made to COM governance policies

Moves will aid in accreditation and provide greater opportunity for general faculty to have a voice in day-to-day college governance.

Jun 30, 2023

Kelly Caverzagie, MD, associate dean for educational strategy and learning environment for the UNMC College of Medicine

Pediatric Spanish immersion program graduates first student

Fellow Brooklyn Leitch, MD, is first graduate of the COM pediatric department’s innovative longitudinal individualized Spanish program

Jun 30, 2023

Brooklyn Leitch, MD, second from right, celebrates her completion of the ¡SÍ! program with, from left, Katherine MacKrell, MD, peds hospitalist; Brooke Seaton, pediatric hospital medicine fellowship program coordinator; Aleisha Nabower, MD, associate program director; Sheilah Snyder, MD, the program director for pediatric hospital medicine; and Shirley Delair, MD, UNMC College of Medicine associate dean of DEI.

Resident director of the month, July 2023

Laura Cudzilo, MD, is director of the OB/GYN residency.

Jun 30, 2023

Laura Cudzilo, MD

Resident of the month, July 2023

Ashley Hein, MD, is a resident in the UNMC Department of Pathology and Microbiology.

Jun 30, 2023

Ashley Hein, MD

COM employee of the month, July 2023

A finance and business operations administrator, Daniel Gomez works with the department of surgery.

Jun 30, 2023

Daniel Gomez