Karen Burbach
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
UNMC awarded $890,000 for mantle cell lymphoma
UNMC will receive a three-year grant totaling $890,000 to help hunt for clues to cure and better treat a rare form of blood cancer, mantle cell lymphoma.
Feb 26, 2004
Midwest Student Biomedical Research Forum awards announced
The recent 35th Midwest Student Biomedical Research Forum drew 107 participants representing nine Midwestern medical schools. See article for award winners.
Feb 26, 2004
Administrative Colloquium sharpens skills
The Administrative Colloquium is a yearlong experience for UNMC faculty who are in administrative positions or who aspire to be, and for those who desire to gain new or sharpen existing administrative and leadership skills. The Colloquium will commence again in March.
Feb 23, 2004