Internal Medicine Newsletter

Medical Students Collaborate on Invited Commentary for Academic Medicine

R. Logan Jones, fourth-year medical student at UNMC, co-authored an article titled “Engaging Learners to Advance Medical Education,” published in Academic Medicine.

May 9, 2017

Logan Jones, UNMC medical student

Student Senate Officers Elected

Among the new at-large student senators elected are Ke Arkfeld, a former Internal Medicine SUARP student mentored by Dahn Clemens, PhD and Geoffrey E. Thiele, son of Internal Medicine faculty member, Geoffrey M. Thiele, PhD.

May 9, 2017

IN THE NEWS . . .

When new NIH Guidelines on How to Test for Peanut Allergies in Infants were released in January, Jill Poole, MD, an allergist in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, was asked to do four media interviews as a local expert.

May 9, 2017

Dr. Jill Poole

Dr. Bennett Appointed Exe. Chair of UNMC/UNO IACUC

Robert Bennett, PhD, professor, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism was appointed to a term as Executive Chair of the UNMC/UNO Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee(IACUC.

May 8, 2017

Dr. Bonnema Honored by ICRE

Rachel Bonnema, MD, received the 2017 Institute for Clinical Research Education (ICRE) Medical Education Distinguished Alumnus of the Year Award.

May 8, 2017

Recently Named Masters and Fellows of ACP

Both James O’Dell, MD, chief, Division of Rheumatology and Immunology and Thomas Tape, MD, chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, were selected to be Masters of the American College of Physicians.

Masters is the highest recognition within ACP and reserved for a very select set of physicians.

May 8, 2017

James O'DelL, MD

Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM) Committee Spotlight

Three Internal Medicine members are serving on Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM) national committees.

May 8, 2017

Rachel Bonnema, MD

UNMC Presence at the Millennium Conference 2017

UNMC was chosen, through a competitive application process, to participate in the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School/Association of American Medical Colleges(AAMC)hosted Millennium Conference 2017.

May 8, 2017

Dr. Marco Olivera-Martinez Invited to Join Editorial Advisory Board

Marco Olivera-Martinez, MD, associate professor, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, was appointed to the editorial advisory board for the ACP Gastroenterology Monthly.

May 8, 2017

DEM Fellows – Notable Presence at National Meetings

Fellows and faculty of the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (DEM) take time out of their busy schedules to develop projects, complete them and submit the results to national meetings.

May 8, 2017