Jo Giles UNMC public relations
UNMC students discuss their work with underserved patients
It may have been a few summers ago, but Ashley Huff remembers clearly what it felt like to see people risk their lives in the desert.
Jul 23, 2009
UNMC partners with OPS, UNL, media for special science project
Global concerns over the spread of the H1N1 virus sparked interest in infectious diseases and viruses. This week, Omaha Public Schools (OPS) high school teachers and students will study virology with UNMC researchers.
Jul 15, 2009
SMDEP goal: increase the number of health care providers
The facts say it all. Patients who live in rural Nebraska communities must, at times, travel hours to Omaha for treatment. Despite the widely reported boom in the Hispanic population, only 2.8 percent of the U.S. health care providers are Hispanic. American Indians make up .3 percent. Blacks represent just 3.5 percent of health care professionals, a number that hasn’t changed much since 1950.
Jul 6, 2009
Freedom celebration culminates year long diversity series
Nowadays, it’s hard to imagine it could take six months for news to reach another part of the country. With cell phones, twitter, e-mail and instant messages, we are connected (or overloaded) with information.
Jul 6, 2009
Juneteenth celebration culminates year-long diversity series
Leave your desk Friday and enjoy the final event in this year’s Diversity Lectures and Cultural Arts Series. At noon, Omaha civil leader and new city councilman, Ben Gray, will discuss the historical importance of the Juneteenth celebration.
Jun 18, 2009
TANGO! and Juneteenth celebration highlight diversity events
UNMC’s Human Resources and the Employee Diversity Network (EDN) will sponsor two events for medical center employees this month.
Jun 2, 2009
Dr. Pamies appointed to medical examiners board executive committee
The National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) has named Rubens Pamies, M.D., vice chancellor for academic affairs at UNMC, to their nine-member executive committee of the governing board of the NBME.
Jun 1, 2009
McGoogan’s first Davis lectureship to be held today
Lessons learned about disease from past scientists are still valuable to those who confront modern disease. That’s the idea behind the new Richard B. Davis, M.D., Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine McGoogan Library History of Medicine Lectureship, which will be held today at 3 p.m. in the Sorrell Center, Room 4053.
May 21, 2009
Wellness Wednesday — Slow down, have a cup of tea
I was swamped last Friday with another hectic day in public relations. … I was tempted to take a “working lunch” in the name of increased productivity. But I knew I needed to go the Asian tea festival, the latest event in the year-long UNMC Diversity Lectures and Cultural Arts Series.
May 13, 2009
McGoogan Library of Medicine announces first Davis lectureship
Lessons learned from past scientists — whose significant discoveries led to new therapies and treatment of disease — can be valuable to those who work to confront modern disease. This idea is the foundation for the new Richard B. Davis, M.D., Ph.D., History of Medicine Lectureship.
May 13, 2009