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Student spotlight – Meet Kailyn Mikell Schukei
Rehab work set student on the path to nursing.
Jan 24, 2014

Seminar on drug delivery research strategies planned
UNeMed Corpoation will host presentation by toxicologist Deven Dandekar, Ph.D.
Jan 24, 2014

Med student joins program to provide surgical care to poor countries
Eric Nagengast, a UNMC medical student, is working in the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change (PGSSC) at Harvard Medical School. The program works to provide surgical care for low income countries.
Jan 24, 2014

News briefs
The Nebraska Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation raised nearly $1.14 million in 2013 thanks in large part to combined events, new donors and increased momentum for the organization.
Jan 24, 2014
Nebraska Science Festival welcomes educators to Teachers’ Night on April 24
Exhibitors may register through Feb. 14
Jan 24, 2014

Industry-sponsored grants
Uriel Sandkovsky, M.D., internal medicine – infectious diseases, for a study comparing the safety and effectiveness of a new antiviral single dose combination given once daily with conventional antiviral combination therapies in HIV-1, ART naïve women. Dr. Sandkovsky will lead the sole Nebraska site for this study which is currently recruiting participants.
Jan 23, 2014

UNMC study results encouraging for women with recurrent ovarian cancer
A new study by UNMC and Roswell Park Cancer Institute shows that a combination treatment strategy may provide a new option for patients with recurrent ovarian cancer.
Jan 23, 2014

Department Profile – Division of Geriatric Medicine, Internal Medicine
Division Chair: Jane Potter, M.D.
Number of people in the division:
•UNMC employees: 8 faculty + 1 fellow + 14 staff = 23 total
•UNMC Physicians employees: 6 staff
Jan 23, 2014

UNMC physician serves as advisor to TV program
Fans of the televised drama “Nashville” may have been affected by the pregnancy storyline that Kimberly Williams-Paisley’s character, Peggy Kenter, underwent earlier this year — but they may not have known that some of the medical nuts and bolts behind that storyline were supplied by UNMC’s Paul Paulman, M.D., family medicine.
Jan 23, 2014
