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Dr. Ernest named state EMS medical director

Emergency Medicine’s Eric Ernest, M.D., a former paramedic, will work with stakeholders throughout the state to improve services.

Feb 18, 2016

Eric Ernest, M.D.

Dr. Tom Osborne to speak at UNMC on Feb. 25

Former Nebraska football coach will speak on mentoring and his TeamMates Mentoring Program.

Feb 18, 2016

Nancy and Tom Osbourne

Lookin’ at U – LuAnn Larson

Clinical Research Center manager works with many departments on campus.

Feb 18, 2016

LuAnn Larson

China Scholarship Council and Summer Research Students Publish on BRCA Mutations

China Scholarship Council Ph.D. students and Summer Research Program students publish paper on BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations among mainland Chinese populations.

Feb 18, 2016

Study authors (from the left) San Ming Wang, M.D., Hanwen Zhang, Jian Cui, Bradley Downs, and Yeong Kim, Ph.D. Not pictured: Linli Zhao, Ye Huang, and Fengxia Xiao

News briefs

UNMC students, residents, fellows and faculty gain access to continuing education content from BoardVitals.

Feb 18, 2016

Department Profile — Orthopaedic Surgery

The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, chaired by Kevin L. Garvin, M.D., includes 85 employees and four collaborative research programs.

Feb 18, 2016

Coming events

The next month brings exciting changes and events, including the Emile Street skywalk opening Feb. 29; a presentation by Thomas Nasca, M.D., CEO of Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, on competency-based education on March 10; and Match Day on March 18.

Feb 18, 2016

Research Highlights

UNMC College of Medicine faculty received 14 grant awards representing more than $2 million in new funding in December, including a $500,000 award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to Irving Zucker, Ph.D.

Feb 18, 2016

Irving Zucker, Ph.D.

COM employee spotlight

Helping others is a theme in both her professional and personal lives for Crystal Miller, who works as a department administrator in the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy.

Feb 18, 2016

COM Student of the Month – Meet Sasha Kapil

Second-year medical student Sasha Kapil from Manhattan, Kan., is active in several groups, such the as Aging and Integrated Medicine program, and has a special connection to the song “Good Vibrations.”

Feb 18, 2016