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Portraits of Care — Essay 5

Today we feature an essay by Jason Schoo, a medical assistant at The Nebraska Medical Center and a head and neck cancer survivor who took part in Mark Gilbert’s art project.

Dec 9, 2008

I Love UNMC — We’re talking real prizes people!

So we’re about a week away from the first random prize drawing of the “I Love UNMC” video campaign and we have exactly two videos submitted to this point.

Dec 9, 2008

UNMC raises nearly $10,000 at Night of a Thousand Stars party

Nearly $10,000 was raised this year at UNMC’s “Night of a Thousand Stars” party held at Pauli’s Blueroom on Dec. 6. The event was attended by 115 people with proceeds going toward the Nebraska AIDS Project.

Dec 9, 2008

UNMC apathy study funded by Alzheimer’s Association

Prasad Padala, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and a staff psychiatrist at the VA Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System, has received a New Investigator Research Grant from the Alzheimer’s Association, the leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimer care, support and research.  The two-year $98,690 grant that begins Jan. […]

Dec 9, 2008

Griswold woman helps meet caffeine needs at UNMC

Weekdays start at 4:15 a.m. for Nicole Johnson, the lead barista at the coffee cart near the gift shop on the second floor of the Durham Outpatient Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. That’s when Johnson wakes up and gets ready for her day at the medical center, which is about a 45-minute […]

Dec 9, 2008

Ten minutes with the DOC baristas

Weekdays start at 4:15 a.m. for Nicole Johnson, the lead barista at the coffee cart near the gift shop on the second floor of the Durham Outpatient Center.

Dec 9, 2008

Clinical trials office lauded as West Nile study wraps up

Mark Rupp, infectious diseases specialist at UNMC and The Nebraska Medical Center, recently praised the hospital’s Clinical Trials Office for its efforts during a four-year study of West Nile Virus.

Dec 8, 2008

Campus events center available for university use

The Truhlsen Campus Events Center is now available for use for university functions, as well as events for UNMC Physicians and The Nebraska Medical Center.

Dec 8, 2008

UNMC nursing students in Lincoln recruit 57 donors during blood drive

During the month of November, members of the Lincoln Division Student Nurses Association (SNA) held a competition that involved nursing students, faculty and staff.

Dec 8, 2008

Burke High choir to present holiday Music as Medicine concert

Sounds of the holiday will fill the Durham Outpatient Center’s West Atrium on Thursday when Burke High School’s Burke Ensemble performs.

Dec 8, 2008

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