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UNMC to celebrate Dr. Binhammer’s 90th birthday

Event set for April 19 for Robert Binhammer, Ph.D.

Apr 12, 2019

Robert Binhammer, Ph.D.

Internal Medicine – Women in Medicine

Dr. Kelly Cawcutt and Dr. Jasmine Marcelin are members of a group of women physicians called PROWD – "Promoting and Respecting Our Women Doctors", led by Dr. Julie Silver, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Silver is the creator of the #BeEthical Campaign, which is a strategic initiative to reduce workforce inequity by focusing […]

Apr 11, 2019

IAE tries ‘near-peer’ interprofessional approach

Internal medicine faculty work with students to learn to teach point-of-care ultrasound.

Apr 10, 2019

Dua'a Abdallah, M.B.B.S., and Luke Desilet, D.O., internal medicine residents, recently learned point-of-care sonography from "near-peer" coach Lauren Peterson, a diagnostic medical sonography student in the College of Allied Health Professions.

UNMC infectious disease expert cautions Nebraskans about flood-related risks

Below is a dropbox link to two mp4 video and mp3 audio sound bites and their transcriptions featuring Mark Rupp, M.D., professor and chief of the UNMC Division of Infectious Diseases and medical director of the Infection Control & Epidemiology Program at Nebraska Medicine. Below he addresses infectious disease issues related to the flooding.   […]

Apr 8, 2019

Jasmine Marcelin, M.D., receives social media award

Dr. Marcelin received a Bronze Fellow award from Mayo Clinic.

Apr 8, 2019

Jasmine Marcelin, M.D.

Employee leave, student serviceship programs announced

New civil and disaster leave programs and student serviceship opportunities have been added to the University of Nebraska’s flood response efforts.

Apr 5, 2019

Aging expert: new information adds support to Dr. Harman’s theory

Science gaining on secrets of aging, but no fountain of youth yet

Apr 5, 2019

SIM-NE training program recognizes 5,000th trainee

UNMC’s SIM-NE has served 87 of 93 Nebraska counties.

Apr 5, 2019

SIM-NE team members recognize Jane Meyer (fourth from left) as the 5000th person to receive SIM-NE training. SIM-NE members from left are Meg Davis, Lori Cooley, James Staab, Doug Dekker, Jeff Whannell and Michael Dekker.

Workshop applied design thinking to emergency care

Design thinking is a methodology for creative problem-solving.

Apr 4, 2019

The workshop was open to colleagues in nursing, pharmacy, emergency medicine faculty, and residents to collaborate on coming up with novel means of improving the emergency department patient experience.

Nebraska seeks to improve maternal mortality rate

April 5 conference in Grand Island will bring together health professionals to address problem.

Apr 4, 2019

Ann Anderson Berry, M.D., Ph.D.