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Outreach

UNMC, C-STARS use expertise to develop new biocontainment unit

The Negatively Pressurized Conex unit will offer high-level-isolation patient movement on military aircraft.

Jul 26, 2023

UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, left, tours the new Negatively Pressurized Conex unit with Lt. Col. Elizabeth Schnaubelt, MD.

Global medical simulation conference coming to UNMC

The Davis Global Center and iEXCEL will host the SimGHOSTS 2023 USA conference from Aug. 1-4.

Jul 24, 2023

Pamela Boyers, PhD, associate vice chancellor of clinical simulation at UNMC

‘Heart to Heart’ podcast explores advocacy for health professionals

Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, hosts UNMC’s Geetanjali Rathore, MD.

Jul 20, 2023

Geetanjali Rathore, MD

SIM-NE evolves, celebrates statewide training milestone 

A new hybrid model will blend mobile on-site training with live virtual outreach events.

Jul 17, 2023

SIM-NE's new hybrid training model includes more live virtual outreach events. Here, SIM-NE holds its first live event in 2020 on Facebook due to the emergence of COVID-19.

UNMC partners in effort to retain and attract diverse grads

The Omaha campus served as a guest site for the Greater Omaha Chamber’s Growing Home initiative.

Jul 17, 2023

Donnie Lopez, a student who will start at the University of Nebraska at Omaha in the fall, tests out the iEXCEL LASER Cave.

Summer at UNMC: Pharmacy hosts mentoring programs

Summer remains a busy time across UNMC. This week, UNMC Today will highlight some of the many happenings during summer break.

Jul 11, 2023

Sean Avedissian, PharmD, assistant professor of pharmacy practice and science at UNMC, led a small-group session and served as a mentor as the UNMC College of Pharmacy hosted the American College of Clinical Pharmacy Foundation’s Mentored Research Investigator Training and Focused Investigator Training programs June 12-16.

Episode of ‘Rural Health Matters’ wins Telly Award

Awards honor excellence and showcase the best work created within television and across video for all screens.

Jul 6, 2023

UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD

Physicians soon will complete their medical training in Kearney

UNK student Cordelia Harbison shows the excitement behind the planned Rural Health Education Building.

Jul 5, 2023

Cordelia Harbison, far left, a freshman at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, has witnessed the impact physicians can have on their patients in rural areas. It drove her to pursue a career in 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.

BHECN completes ARPA grants with new awardees

More than $3 million was awarded to address state’s behavioral health workforce shortage.

Jun 30, 2023

Marley Doyle, MD, director of the Behavioral Health Education Center of Nebraska, and Jessica Buche, BHECN ARPA award director