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New Health Design Thinking Program established

Jennifer Kallio, DDS, T.J. Welniak, MD, Katherine Bravo, PhD, and Amy Pick, PharmD, to lead new effort.

Sep 16, 2021

Steps to embrace belonging through community

Teams stronger, more inclusive when taking time to know your colleagues.

Sep 16, 2021

College of Pharmacy holding flu clinics

Operation Immunization project offers walk-in immunization opportunities.

Sep 16, 2021

Brain health of youth football players focus of Science Cafe

Speaker is founder of The First Down Project, a decade long study that focuses on brain health in youth football players.

Sep 16, 2021

Sen. Eliot Bostar tours UNMC

Sen. Bostar met with Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, and members of the UNMC College of Public Health during his visit.

Sep 15, 2021

State Sen. Eliot Bostar tours UNMC, including iEXCEL's Five-Sided Laser Cave.

Special Olympics Nebraska honors HSEC students

Award recognizes those who make significant contributions to equal access to health, fitness and wellness for people with intellectual disabilities.

Sep 15, 2021

Mia Hyde, associate program director/director of clinical development, physician assistant education; Jannelle Reynolds, assistant professor of PA education; Mary Girard, instructor, nursing; Pam Dickey, assistant professor and admissions director, PA education; Nancy Stuart, instructor of nursing; and Katie Messner clinical instructor, nursing, accept the award on behalf of UNMC, the HSEC and its students.

Dr. Boyers inducted into national simulation Hall of Fame

Pamela Boyers, PhD, was honored Tuesday at induction ceremony.

Sep 15, 2021

Pamela Boyers, PhD

UNMC receives $20.3 million research grant, largest in its history

The grant is a renewal of a record $20 million National Institutes of Health grant received in 2016.

Sep 15, 2021

Matthew Rizzo, MD, principal investigator of the grant.

UNMC summer program for international physical therapy students goes virtual

In prior summers, this course was offered on-campus at UNMC but due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s course was offered as a three-week online summer program from July 12-30, 2021. More students were able to join this program from the comfort of their homes than had previously come to Omaha in years past. The 2021 course welcomed 24 SEED students from six different universities in China and Taiwan.

Sep 15, 2021

Ka-Chun (Joseph) Siu, PhD
Associate Professor of Physical Therapy and Director, Global Health Opportunity Program (GHOP)

New faculty spotlight: Lindsay Helget, MD

Dr. Helget is an assistant professor in the UNMC Division of Rheumatology.

Sep 14, 2021

Lindsay Helget, MD