Julie Fedderson, M.D., internal medicine, has been named chief quality and outcomes officer (CQOO) for The Nebraska Medical Center and UNMC Physicians. Following the recent implementation of One Chart, the electronic health record system, the CQOO will oversee the development, integration, and management of clinical quality, patient safety programs and data management. Although One Chart positions the medical center well for the future, the CQOO will play a key role in re-organizing the overall approach to information management.
James Armitage, M.D., internal medicine-oncology/hematology, will receive the Mayo Clinic’s prestigious Robert A. Kyle Award for Outstanding Clinician Scientist on Sept. 12. The award is named in honor of Dr. Kyle, a longtime Mayo Clinic physician who is considered a pioneer and leader in the advancement of research, clinical treatment and education for multiple myeloma and related disorders.
Devin Nickol, M.D., internal medicine, received one of 16 awards in curriculum development from the Association of American Medical Colleges. Dr. Nickol was recognized for his work in the Small Group Exercise in Professionalism and Code of Ethics Development category.
Fourth-year medical student Lauren Taylor, president of the Psychiatry Interest Group, received a competitive $3,500 grant from the American Psychiatric Association’s Helping Hands program to do psychiatry outreach in the SHARING clinic.
Gary Madsen, Ph.D., has recently joined the UNeMed team as the technology transfer group’s “Entrepreneur in Residence.” In this role, Dr. Madsen will: help identify promising UNMC technologies that have the potential to form the basis of new startup companies; and establish partnerships between industry, faculty, clinicians and funding sources in order to develop new business ventures based on novel technologies.
Fourth-year medical student Jillian Fickenscher is one of five scholars selected as 2012 Pisacano Scholars. The scholarships, valued up to $28,000 each, are awarded to students at U.S. medical schools who demonstrate a strong commitment to the specialty of family medicine. Approximately 2,100 applicants from more than 120 medical schools competed for the scholarships. Fickenscher is the first UNMC student selected as a Pisacano Scholar since the start of the program in 1993.
Fourth-year medical student Alisha Mauler has been elected to the American Association of Family Physicians Foundation Board of Trustees. Mauler will be the inaugural student member of the board.
A team of graduate students from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Surgical Robotics Lab won first place in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ 2012 Student Mechanism and Robot Design Competition, Graduate Student Robotics category, with their project, “Miniature In Vivo Surgical Robot for Single-Incision Surgery.” The students were Jack Mondry of Orlando, Fla., Joseph Bartels of Wauneta, Neb., Thomas Frederick of Omaha, and Eric Markvicka of Ravenna, Neb. The team worked on the robot for six months as part of their lab projects, which frequently involve collaboration and testing with the UNMC team headed by Dmitry Oleynikov, M.D.
Eight students have enrolled in the Biomedical Research Training Program. They include: Jaime Abrego; Robyn Cota-Sieckmeyer; Alek Erickson; Jimmy Hilaire; Tra-My Hoang; Appolinaire Olou; Katherine Olson; and Jon Peaster.
Four students – Jonathan Meyer, Michael Price, Lee Sleightholm and Bang Chen Wang – are enrolled in the M.D./Ph.D. Scholars Program and the UNMC/China Joint M.D./Ph.D. program.
The M.D./Ph.D. Scholars Program also welcomed two second-year medical students, Brian Coburn and Robert Weir, who entered the program through the M.D./Ph.D. Alternative Pathway Program.
Chinese student Yu Cai has arrived on campus to participate in the joint UNMC/Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine M.D./Ph.D. program.