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3 kickstarters for your morning

By Michael Huckabee, Ph.D., professor and director of the University of Nebraska Medical Center Division of Physician Assistant Education. Dr. Huckabee has more than 30 years’ experience as a physician assistant, mostly in rural Nebraska. His columns appear on livewellnebraska.com, a health and wellness website published by the Omaha World-Herald. Sunrise Stooling The benefits of […]

Jul 23, 2015

Research highlights

UNMC College of Medicine faculty received 17 grant awards representing more than $2 million in new funding during the month of May. Highlights included: Kaushik Patel, Ph.D., cellular & integrative physiology, has received more than $500,000 through a National Institutes of Health R01 award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for a study on […]

Jul 23, 2015

Kaushik Patel, Ph.D.

News briefs

Dr. Frankel named president of the Nebraska Medical Association Harris Frankel, M.D., associate professor of neurological sciences at UNMC and chief medical director and senior vice president of medical affairs at Nebraska Medicine, will be installed as president of the Nebraska Medical Association during its House of Delegates and Inaugural Banquet Sept. 18, at the […]

Jul 23, 2015

Harris Frankel, M.D., associate professor of neurological sciences

Coming events

August 11 – Topping off ceremony/beam signing for Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, 3:30 – 5 p.m. Ceremony will take place in front of the Durham Research Center. August 12-13 – University of Nebraska President Hank Bounds, Ph.D., will visit the UNMC campus. August 18 – Premier Education Banquet (by invitation only), noon – […]

Jul 23, 2015

Employee spotlight: Linda Wilkie

Name/title:  Linda Wilkie/institutional research analyst/coordinator, director of vice chancellor for research communications Hometown:  Omaha, Neb. Talk about your job and what you like best about it: My current position in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research allows me to be a "jack of all trades," which means that I get to develop new […]

Jul 23, 2015

Linda Wilkie

College of Medicine Student of the Month – Anthony White, second-year medical st

Editor’s Note: Each month, InterCOM will highlight a "Student of the Month" from the College of Medicine. Students will be featured for their participation in activities outside of medical school and for making a difference in the community. The goal is to recognize students for what they are doing and to encourage other students to get […]

Jul 23, 2015

Anthony White

A message from the dean

We were pleased this month when the University of Nebraska Board of Regents approved the establishment of a department of physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) within the College of Medicine. Our next step in the process of creating the new department will come on August 20 when we will seek approval of the Coordinating Commission […]

Jun 29, 2015

New faculty

Kristen Baus, M.D., assistant professor, psychiatry Ronald Zolty, M.D., Ph.D., professor, internal medicine-cardiology

Jun 29, 2015

Research headlines

UNMC College of Medicine faculty received 10 grant awards representing $1.9 million in new funding during the month of April.

Jun 26, 2015

Coming events

July 1 – School of Allied Health Professions becomes the College of Allied Health Professions.   July 11 – Owl Ride, Omaha's nighttime urban cycling adventure, starts at 10 p.m. at Lewis and Clark Landing on Omaha's riverfront and follows a 17-mile course through downtown, Midtown, Dundee, Aksarben, Field Club and the Old Market, with […]

Jun 25, 2015