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Under the microscope: The 2017 Heart Walk
UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D., speaks with Matthew Zimmerman, Ph.D., about UNMC’s participation in this year’s event. Dr. Gold is again chair of the event to be held on May 13.
Apr 3, 2017
Registration is open for 2017 Heart Walk
The UNMC community is encouraged to participate in the American Heart Association’s May 13 event.
Apr 3, 2017
UNMC celebrates naming, groundbreaking for iEXCEL home
The Davis Global Center will transform health care education
Apr 3, 2017
Scientist laureate builds research bridge
Tammy Kielian goes where the research
leads her.
Mar 31, 2017
Heiser name lives on in fitness facility
Nick Heiser, M.D., assistant professor of anesthesiology and 2008 UNMC graduate, remembers that his family was always active. Hiking, biking, sports were just what the Heisers did. But among Nick’s favorite memories was watching his father drive up after work for early-evening pick-up basketball games in the driveway. His father, also a physician, would get […]
Mar 31, 2017
Find your ‘wow’ moment at the Nebraska Science Festival
There was the time – during our science night at Werner Park – that a young boy who stood waist high to a cardiologist, lobbed question upon question about the heart surgery he once had. All while the two walked through a giant inflatable heart. Another time, there was a pint-sized girl whose white coat […]
Mar 31, 2017
Boosting America’s Health Security
In 2015, more than a dozen American aid workers in Sierra Leone were flown home to be monitored for Ebola. None got sick, but, for three weeks, they stayed in Omaha, Bethesda, Md., and Atlanta near hospitals with special isolation units in case they did. Now, thanks to a $19.8 million award from the U.S. […]
Mar 31, 2017
Ebola’s lesson – more research
When the Ebola outbreak overwhelmed health care resources in Africa and challenged them in the U.S., research on the virus was quite limited. Little was known in 2014 and there was no vaccine. Researchers were frantic to catch up. Since then, UNMC has rewritten the book on patient care and the use of personal protective […]
Mar 31, 2017
Henry Perry, M.D., Ph.D. to deliver Berggren Lecture
Award-winning physician, sociologist, anthropologist, educator and world health expert will speak April 12.
Mar 31, 2017
