Karen Burbach
Medical response corps seeks volunteers
Medical and non-medical professionals are being sought to help strengthen Omaha and the surrounding communities in times of disaster. Omaha Mayor Mike Fahey Friday unveiled The Metropolitan Omaha Volunteer Medical Reserve Corps as a way to prepare citizens to assist in large-scale emergencies such as bioterrorism, epidemics, or natural disasters.
Mar 15, 2004
Discount tickets available for Dr. Phil’s Omaha event
Employees at UNMC, UMA and The Nebraska Medical Center can purchase discount tickets for the 7 p.m. appearance on April 23 at Qwest Center Omaha by Dr. Phil McGraw, nationally known TV psychologist and best selling author. Discount tickets are available at $78.50 through March 19 by calling (402) 561-7578. This is a reduction of $6.50 from the normal cost of $85.
Mar 15, 2004
Coordinating Commission tours Durham Research Center
The Nebraska Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education met Thursday on the UNMC campus, where they heard an overview of the campus’ future plans and received a firsthand look at the Durham Research Center.
Mar 12, 2004
UNMC launches ‘I work here’ image campaign
Steve “Wess” Wessling doesn’t teach medical students, or do cancer research. Instead, he keeps the heating and air conditioning running and the power on for those who do. Wessling, a utility operator in UNMC’s facilities management, is one of six UNMC employees featured in a new image campaign that boasts “I work here…maybe you should, too.”
Mar 12, 2004
First-year students address intimate partner violence
Laura Donigan knows she may encounter domestic violence as a future health care professional, so the first-year medical student is arming herself with information. On March 3, Donigan and 119 other first-year medical students at UNMC watched “Jordan’s Story,” a production of the Omaha-group R.E.S.P.E.C.T.2 (Relationship Empowerment for Students, Parents, Educators and Community Through Theatre).
Mar 10, 2004
Dr. Sorrell to be honored at NFR luncheon
Nebraskans for Research will honor UNMC’s Michael Sorrell, M.D., at the annual Tribute to Research luncheon on Monday, April 26. Dr. Sorrell is chief of gastroenterology and hepatology, medical director of the Liver Transplant Program and Robert L. Grissom, M.D., Professor of Medicine.
Mar 10, 2004
Professionalism seminar focuses on patient safety
Patient safety and reducing the likelihood of human medical errors was the focal point of this year’s Professionalism Seminar for future health care professionals.
Mar 9, 2004
UNMC researcher featured in The New England Journal of Medicine
A UNMC researcher is featured in the current issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. In the NEJM’s March 4 Perspective column, Stephen Rennard, M.D., Larson Professor of Medicine, UNMC Pulmonary and Critical Care Section, outlines the need to increase awareness of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and highlights a promising tool in diagnosing and managing patients with COPD.
Mar 4, 2004
Unique mice attract Japanese researcher
Jun-ichi Sakiyama, Ph.D., recently traveled to UNMC to study the world’s only existing genetically engineered mouse strain without the Hoxb6 gene. Sakiyama is interested in whether the Hoxb6 gene plays a crucial role in lung development, an area he has been studying in the division of biological science at Nagoya University in Japan.
Mar 3, 2004
Dr. Persidsky named recipient of Gilmore award
When Yuri Persidsky, M.D., Ph.D., came to UNMC in 1994, he had an idea to develop a small animal model to study HIV in the brain. Nearly a decade later, the severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) mouse model for HIV-1 infection of the brain that Dr. Persidsky developed with Howard Gendelman, M.D., has become recognized in the scientific community on several fronts.
Mar 1, 2004