UNMC for the record

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

Students in the 2010-2011 Biomedical Research Training Program (BRTP), the M.D./Ph.D. Scholars Program and the UNMC/China Joint M.D./Ph.D. program recently took part in a three-day orientation to help them select their areas of interest for Ph.D. research. Ten students entered the BRTP this fall, five entered the M.D./Ph.D. program and two entered the joint UNMC/China program.









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Incoming members of the Biomedical Research Training Program, the M.D./Ph.D. program and the joint UNMC/China M.D./Ph.D., program recently participated in a three-day orientation at UNMC. Pictured are, back row from left: Luke Cypher, Xiaolin Zhou, Michelle Eggen, Matthew Dale and Peter Pellegrino; midde row: Jing Fan, Kristi Anderson, Shinn-Yi Chou, Cassandra Steiner, Eric Cruz and David Taylor; front row: Cortney Halsey, Karlene Cork, Dana Tabor, Erin Wuebben, Darci Fink and Hollie Siebler.
College of Nursing Dean Virginia Tilden, D.N.Sc., lectured at two national forums this summer. She spoke to about 60 leaders in medicine, nursing and health systems administration at the 17th Annual Summer Symposium on Quality Improvement in Health Care in Lake Morey, Vt.

Dr. Tilden also presented to about 120 physician leaders in medical education in Vancouver, British Columbia at the Summer Forum of the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation.

Barbara McCabe, Ph.D., emeritus faculty of the UNMC College of Nursing, recently received a distinguished service award from the National Gerontological Nursing Association.

Caren Barnes, professor of dental hygiene in the College of Dentistry, was honored with the Dental Hygiene Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Dentistry. She also received the 2010 Alumni Award from UMKC. Barnes is a 1974 graduate of the UMKC School of Dentistry’s Masters Degree Program in Dental Hygiene.