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Below is a list of recent achievements, activities and happenings involving UNMC staff, faculty and students.









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From left: Drs. Gustavo Cordero, Ryan Arnold, Michael Shevlin and Kurt Bormann will graduate from the orthopaedic residency program next week.
Four physicians will graduate next week from the UNMC orthopaedic surgery residency program. The graduating residents are:
  • Ryan Arnold, M.D., who will move on to a sports medicine and cartilage reconstruction fellowship at Atlanta Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center;
  • Kurt Bormann, M.D., who will undertake an international trauma traveling fellowship at Hannover Medical School in Hannover, Germany, and then a shoulder and elbow fellowship at North Shore Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand;
  • GustavoCordero, M.D., who will do an orthopaedic trauma fellowship at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; and
  • Michael Shevlin, M.D.; who will start to practice at West Idaho Orthopedics and Sports Medicine in Caldwell, Idaho.

Rubens Pamies, M.D., vice chancellor for academic affairs, spoke on Monday at the Heartland Chapter of the American Red Cross’ 93rd Annual Membership Meeting and Luncheon about UNMC’s earthquake relief efforts in Haiti. Dr. Pamies, along with College of Public Health Dean Ayman El-Mohandes, M.B.B.Ch., M.D., M.P.H., spearheaded UNMC’s Haiti relief operations.

Pascale Lane, M.D., Helen Freytag Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and associate chairwoman for research for the UNMC Department of Pediatrics, has been named a national delegate for Vision 2020, a national project of the Institute for Women’s Health and Leadership at Drexel University College of Medicine. The project unites women across disciplines to begin a national dialogue and propose an action agenda to effect positive change.

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