InterCOM

SHARING’s continuity program builds provider-patient relationships

Long-term commitment adds new dimension to volunteer experience for medical students.

Sep 24, 2013

Grant Turner, M3, and Maria Neri.

United Way, Day One: First steps on the road to $156,000

Three-week United Way campaign begins today.

Sep 23, 2013

New faculty

Thirty-one new faculty have joined the College of Medicine. The new additions include one associate professor, 24 assistant professors and six instructors.

Sep 6, 2013

OneTeam forums to be held Sept. 12

Six employee forums will be held on Sept. 12 to update staff on new developments coming from the OneTeam enterprise discussions involving Deloitte consulting. The OneTeam initiative is looking to better integrate and coordinate the medical center’s clinical enterprise. Two forums will be held for physicians only: 7 a.m., Clarkson Tower, Lower Storz. 5 p.m., […]

Sep 5, 2013

Research funding during past month exceeds $2.8 million

Grants will study HIV, gout, cell signaling Twenty-six new research awards representing more than $2.8 million in new funding were received by College of Medicine faculty during the past month. They included: Howard Fox, M.D., Ph.D., pharmacology and experimental neuroscience, has received a National Institutes of Health U24 grant from the National Institutes of Mental […]

Sep 5, 2013

Howard Fox

Industry-sponsored contracts

The following industry-sponsored contracts have been received. Here is more information on clinical trials enrolling patients at UNMC. James Gigantelli, M.D., ophthalmology and visual sciences, is the UNMC lead for a multi-center Phase III clinical trial to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of a novel protein therapy for the treatment of thyroid eye disease (TED). […]

Sep 5, 2013

UNMC coordinating $12.2 million study on abdominal aortic aneurysms

Will investigate low-cost antibiotic to determine if it can inhibit enzymes that cause aneurysms When diagnosed with an abdominal aortic aneurysm, all most people can do is worry, watch and wait. Timothy Baxter, M.D., professor of surgery at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, has compared it to being forced to live with the ticking […]

Sep 4, 2013

Jason MacTaggart, M.D.

College of Medicine Student of the Month – Steve Dondlinger, second-year student

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 […]

Sep 4, 2013

Steve Dondlinger

UNMC medical student receives Fulbright Award

Andrew Baumgartner, a fourth-year medical student at UNMC, has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarship to the Netherlands in philosophy.  Baumgartner, who was “Student of the Month” in the July issue of InterCOM, is one of more than 1,700 U.S. citizens who will travel abroad for the 2013-2014 academic year through the Fulbright […]

Sep 4, 2013

Andrew Baumgartner

A message from the dean

One of the enduring commitments of the College of Medicine is to train physicians to meet the manpower needs of Nebraska. Since a large portion of the population of the state and its geography are rural in nature that commitment must include programs to meet the health care provider needs of rural Nebraska. However, that […]

Sep 4, 2013

Brad Britigan, M.D., Kyle Meyer, Ph.D., Charlie Bicek, and Juliann Sebastian, Ph.D.