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Speakers List for Emerging Infections Class
CPH 649 – Special Topics in Epidemiology: Emerging Infectious Disease for Fall 2015 08/28/2015 10am-12noon "Factors for Emergence of Microbial Threats" Ali S. Khan, M.D., MPH (UNMC, Dean of COPH; Rear Admiral-Retired, USPHS and former Assistant U.S. Surgeon General) 09/04/2015 10am-11am "Mathematical Approaches to EIDs" Ozgur Araz, Ph.D. (UNL; previously UNMC, COPH) 11am-12noon "GIS Models […]
Jul 24, 2015
Five goals established by curriculum change group
The Curriculum Innovations Work Group (CIWG) was formed in October 2014 by the College of Medicine Curriculum Committee. The group’s task was to investigate and recommend a new framework for the medical school curriculum. In April, the Curriculum Committee approved the three-phase framework. The CIWG has identified five overarching goals for UNMC curricular redesign: Integration […]
Jul 23, 2015
3 kickstarters for your morning
By Michael Huckabee, Ph.D., professor and director of the University of Nebraska Medical Center Division of Physician Assistant Education. Dr. Huckabee has more than 30 years’ experience as a physician assistant, mostly in rural Nebraska. His columns appear on livewellnebraska.com, a health and wellness website published by the Omaha World-Herald. Sunrise Stooling The benefits of […]
Jul 23, 2015
Research highlights
UNMC College of Medicine faculty received 17 grant awards representing more than $2 million in new funding during the month of May. Highlights included: Kaushik Patel, Ph.D., cellular & integrative physiology, has received more than $500,000 through a National Institutes of Health R01 award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for a study on […]
Jul 23, 2015
News briefs
Dr. Frankel named president of the Nebraska Medical Association Harris Frankel, M.D., associate professor of neurological sciences at UNMC and chief medical director and senior vice president of medical affairs at Nebraska Medicine, will be installed as president of the Nebraska Medical Association during its House of Delegates and Inaugural Banquet Sept. 18, at the […]
Jul 23, 2015
First pediatric hematologist/oncologist in Nebraska dies at age 81
Rashid Al-Rashid, M.D., was on UNMC faculty for 25 years
Jul 23, 2015
Dr. Case lands ‘Pathway to Independence’ grant
Adam Case, Ph.D., is only the fourth investigator in the state of Nebraska to receive the NIH award.
Jul 23, 2015
INBRE scholars: Meet Alyssa Marian
Science has always fascinated Nebraska Wesleyan student.
Jul 23, 2015
INBRE scholars: Meet Melissa Shadoin
Science has always been part of Doane student’s life.
Jul 23, 2015
Nebraska Medicine top hospital in state
U.S. News rankings laud UNMC’s hospital partner.
Jul 23, 2015
