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Student spotlight – Meet Cara Michelson

Clinical perfusion student was inspired by her mother’s work.

Dec 20, 2013

Goodbye, orange and green: Updated design coming soon to UNMC website

The updated look for UNMC’s website has been completed — check out the look of the new pages.

Dec 20, 2013

Singers, bell choir provide ‘Music as Medicine’ today

Performance by Central High School group begins at noon.

Dec 19, 2013

Trip to Vietnam yields promising collaboration

In memory of their friend Paul Tran, M.D., his colleagues are reaching across borders to enhance medical education and care.

Dec 19, 2013

Wes Zeger, D.O., discusses a case with students at Thai Binh University in Vietnam (seen in screen at upper left).

Lookin’ at U – Mallory Car

Public relations expert brings communication skills to the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center.

Dec 19, 2013

Mallory Car

There’s still time to donate in campus food drive

Donations will support the Food Bank for the Heartland.

Dec 19, 2013

Industry-sponsored contracts

The following industry-sponsored contracts also were received. Here is more information on clinical trials enrolling patients at UNMC.

Lori Maness-Harris, M.D., internal medicine – oncology/hematology, is the UNMC lead for a study on the effectiveness of a new antibody-drug conjugate that targets a cell surface marker on B-cell malignancies. Dr. Maness Harris will serve as the sole Nebraska site for this study, which is currently recruiting participants.

Dec 19, 2013

Fourth annual UNMC Skate-a-thon to raise funds for Parkinson’s research

Previous three Skate-a-thons have raised total of $110,000

Dec 19, 2013

New version of One Chart successfully installed

On Nov. 10, One Chart Version 2012 was successfully installed on campus. The upgrade provides the most current version of the Epic electronic health record since the rollout last year. By all accounts, the transfer to the new system went well. “We want to thank all staff and providers for helping ensure the success of […]

Dec 18, 2013

From common colds to deadly lung diseases, one protein plays key role

Joe Sisson, M.D., a University of Nebraska Medical Center clinician-scientist, was part of an international team of researchers that has zeroed in on a protein that plays a key role in many lung-related ailments, from seasonal coughing and hacking to more serious diseases such as MRSA infections and cystic fibrosis.

Dec 18, 2013

Joe Sisson, M.D.