Outreach

BHECN-UNO program to boost behavioral health in schools

About 25 University of Nebraska at Omaha grad students in behavioral health will intern at Omaha-area schools.

May 23, 2024

Anna Dalrymple, MD, named Koefoot Award recipient

Dr. Dalrymple, a 2014 UNMC graduate who practices in Gothenburg, was recognized as the outstanding preceptor in rural family medicine.

May 23, 2024

From left: Jolene Wees, family medicine clerkship coordinator; Kimberly Jarzynka, MD, vice chair of family medicine and residency program director; Mindy Lacey, MD, medical student education director; Anna Dalrymple, MD; Geoffrey Talmon, MD, associate dean for medical education; and Jeff Harrison, MD, chair of family medicine. (Photo by Iris Photography Studios)

Haji Zoona Band lecture will explore cancer biology

UNMC’s Hamid Band, MD, PhD, and Vimla Band, PhD, are honoring Hamid’s mother, who died of cancer.

May 22, 2024

UNMC's Hamid Band, MD, PhD, with his mother, Haji Zoona Band

Tornado survey offers ‘boots-on-the-ground epidemiology’

A UNMC College of Public Health team joined local and state health representatives in conducting a Washington County needs assessment.

May 21, 2024

A team from the UNMC College of Public Health helped conduct the rapid needs assessment May 16-18.

Health care workforce report highlights challenges, accomplishments

The issues involved show the importance of UNMC initiating programming to educate more health care professionals.

May 16, 2024

Nicole Carritt, UNMC's assistant vice chancellor of health workforce education relations

Cancer center announces new community outreach leaders

The Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center team will be key in developing community partnerships, cancer education and screening events.

May 15, 2024

Clockwise from top left: Keyonna King, DrPH, Patrick Maloney, PhD, Rachael Schmidt, DNP, and Juan Santamaria, MD

UNMC history: UNMC’s Health Science Meet

For more than 25 years, eighth-grade students from across Nebraska competed to participate in UNMC’s annual Health Science Meet.

May 13, 2024

Visiting eighth-grade students participate in the 2006 UNMC Health Science Meet.

Med center to spearhead novel approach to disaster planning

The med center’s health security experts will support the National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health in the planning effort.

May 9, 2024

Chris Kratochvil, MD, vice chancellor for external relations at UNMC, and Lauren Sauer, associate director of research in the Global Center for Health Security

Public health researchers develop drought response guide

The UNMC College of Public Health team wrote the guide to better prepare health professionals for responding to impacts from drought.

May 8, 2024

Jesse Bell, PhD, and Rachel Lookadoo, JD

Dr. Gold to receive inaugural ‘Heartland Hero Award’

The award comes from Rural Media Group, which broadcasts ‘Rural Health Matters,’ a live weekly program Dr. Gold hosts on RFD-TV.

May 6, 2024

UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD