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College of Medicine

UNMC for the record

News and notes from the UNMC community.

Jun 19, 2015

MMI Board member Sue Seline and Benjamin Ashby

UNMC course a gold standard for Chinese physicians

In its fourth year, U.S.-Sino Family Medicine Leadership Course attracts leaders from China.

Jun 19, 2015

Sijia Xu, a medical resident from China, begins chest compressions as part of a simulation held Wednesday during the U.S.-Sino Family Medicine Leadership Course.

Colleagues remember SAHP’s Connie Mitchell

Visitation set for Sunday, funeral service Monday for longtime faculty member, who died earlier this week.

Jun 19, 2015

Connie Mitchell

Internal medicine research awards announced

Department recognized seven individuals for research accomplishments.

Jun 18, 2015

Award winners, shown here with department chair Debra Romberger, M.D., are (front row from left) Carol Casey, Ph.D., R. Jennifer Cavalieri, and Brian Coburn, M.D./Ph.D. student, and (back row from left) Apar Kishor Ganti, M.D.; Dr. Romberger, Bryant England, M.D., and Murali Ganesan, Ph.D. (Sarah Bligh, M.D., is not pictured).

Lookin’ at U – Kim Morrison

Human resources associate makes mark with PEN.

Jun 18, 2015

Kim Morrison

Group hopes to increase LGBT visibility at UNMC

UNMC Pride Alliance will participate in Saturday’s 2015 Heartland Pride event.

Jun 18, 2015

Matthew Follett, president of the UNMC Pride Alliance

Dr. Kielian, UNeMed ink deal with pharma company

New licensing agreement aims to further develop a promising gene therapy approach to combatting Juvenile Batten disease.

Jun 17, 2015

Tammy Kielian, Ph.D., left, and her niece, Olivia

Cattlemen’s Ball draws more than 4,000 attendees

Annual event raises money for the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, other programs.

Jun 17, 2015

Cattlemen's Ball attendees signed one of the beams to be used in the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center construction.

UNMC establishes Nebraska’s first physical medicine, rehabilitation department

Department, partnership with Madonna address critical gap in post-acute care in Midwest

Jun 16, 2015

A rendering of the Madonna rehab and long-term care hospital at Village Pointe in Omaha, set to open in 2016. It will serve as the primary training site for a UNMC-supported residency program in physical medicine and rehabilitation.

Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center spotlighted

Center director Kenneth Cowan, M.D., Ph.D., is interviewed in a Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium “member spotlight.”

Jun 16, 2015

Kenneth Cowan, M.D., Ph.D., director of Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center