Maria Ball

Message from the Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine

Fall has arrived and with it many great seasonal activities! I hope you will all be able to enjoy some of your favorite ones. September is the month we recognize women in medicine. Dr. Phil Bierman (emeritus professor) and Dr. Elizabeth Reed have captured the history of a couple of the early women faculty in […]

Sep 26, 2022

Dr. Debra Romberger

For Women in Medicine month, Internal Medicine physicians reflect on their female mentors

September is designated Women in Medicine month by the American Medical Association and our department is celebrating the accomplishments and contributions of the women working alongside them. We asked some of our Internal Medicine physicians to reflect on their female mentors. Read on for their tributes. “I certainly benefitted from a number of women mentors […]

Sep 24, 2022

New curriculum spans departments, closes gaps in residency training

A novel, extracurricular house officer track at UNMC is expanding in 2023 to become the first competency-based, interdisciplinary health educator track in the nation. Health Educators and Academic Leaders (HEAL) was a grass roots initiative that gained traction in 2019 due to increasing interest from residents and fellows to have formalized training in medical education. […]

Sep 23, 2022

Dr. Cory Rohlfsen