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Support for SIM-NE funding focus of Jan. 27 testimony

Mobile training units have had positive impact throughout the state.

Jan 24, 2020

The Simulation in Motion-Nebraska (SIM-NE) program has trained nearly 7,000 health care professionals throughout the state, the majority of whom are volunteer emergency medical services (EMS) providers and rural firefighters.

UNMC’s statewide volunteer EMS training program seeks legislative support

Committee hearing on LB 761 is set for Jan. 27

Jan 24, 2020

Susan Swindells, M.B.B.S., is 14th Scientist Laureate

The award is the highest honor the University of Nebraska Medical Center bestows upon its researchers.

Jan 24, 2020

UNMC: A decade of growth

Looking back over 10 years of accomplishments.

Jan 23, 2020

From left, physicians Mark Rupp, M.D., Phil Smith, M.D., and Angela Hewlett, M.D., at a press conference in 2014 to update the media on the condition of a patient with Ebola. UNMC and Nebraska Medicine's response to the Ebola crisis set in on a path to becoming a key national player in biosecurity and the treatment of highly infectious diseases.

Interprofessional education conference seeks abstracts

Deadline is March 1 for submissions for July Heartland Interprofessional Education Conference.

Jan 23, 2020

Devin Nickol, M.D., associate dean for interprofessional education at UNMC

Healing Arts to host workshop with Opera Omaha

Creativity workshop is free, but space is limited and reservations are required.

Jan 23, 2020

Opera Omaha's Community Opera Fellows will hold a workshop on the UNMC campus Jan. 30.

NExT: A Nebraska Transformational Project

A “once-in-a-generation” opportunity, NExT would build the med center’s educational, training, research, clinical and all hazard disaster response space – and catapult Nebraska into national and international prominence.

Jan 23, 2020

Skate-a-thon to begin Friday

Registration closes tonight for 24-hour event that raises money for Parkinson’s research.

Jan 23, 2020

Skaters turned out in force for the 2019 Skate-a-thon event.

Being part of the change

Martin Luther King Jr. Day speaker challenges med center audience.

Jan 23, 2020

Dell Gines, senior community development adviser, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City - Omaha branch, was the keynote speaker at the med center's observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

UNMC study will explore sleep disorders in adolescents

Children with ADHD and autism are particularly affected by sleep disorders.

Jan 23, 2020