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UNMC psychologist receives prestigious national award
A child psychologist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Joe Evans, Ph.D., has been named the recipient of the American Psychological Foundation Cummings Psyche Prize, an annual award that recognizes one psychologist in the country whose career exemplifies the integration of behavioral and primary health care. Dr. Evans, who is director of psychology […]
Apr 28, 2008
UNMC psychologist looks into new ways to treat gambling addiction
UNMC psychologist looks into new ways to treat gambling addiction Pathological gambling has become a significant public health problem with the proliferation of legalized gambling across the United States. Currently, there is no standard drug therapy for pathological gambling, but University of Nebraska Medical Center psychologist, Dennis P. McNeilly, PsyD., is investigating whether a drug […]
Apr 28, 2008
647 UNMC students to receive diplomas in Kearney, Lincoln, Omaha and Scottsbluff at commencement ceremonies May 1, 2, 3
647 UNMC students to receive diplomas in Kearney, Lincoln, Omaha and Scottsbluff at commencement ceremonies May 1, 2, 3 Diplomas will be conferred on 647 University of Nebraska Medical Center students during the below commencement ceremonies in Kearney, Lincoln, Omaha and Scottsbluff. On Thursday, May 1 at 7 p.m., commencement exercises for UNMC College of […]
Apr 25, 2008
Philanthropist recognizes work of UNMC students
Thirty-five University of Nebraska Medical Center students received cash awards April 18 to support their research in cancer or neurodegenerative diseases or nursing education. Each award winner will receive $500, thanks to Norman Harris, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln alum, who established three funds in honor of his late wife Bernice Harris, who passed away in […]
Apr 24, 2008
Bellevue resident receives Chancellor’s Gold U Award at UNMC
For the past 32 years, Vicki Hamm has been the point person to thousands of residents who make the University of Nebraska Medical Center their home during specialty training stretches lasting one to eight years. As administrator of the Graduate Medical Education (GME) Program in UNMC’s College of Medicine, Hamm advises each resident on […]
Apr 23, 2008
Former Holdrege resident receives scholarship for his Alzheimer’s research at UNMC
Daniel Flaherty of Holdrege, Neb., a pharmaceutical sciences graduate student at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, recently became the fourth recipient of the Nancy and Ronald Reagan Alzheimer’s Scholarship Fund Award for his research into potential pharmaceutical therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease. A 2001 graduate of Holdrege High School, Flaherty is the son of […]
Apr 23, 2008
Milton Zadina, M.D., named Outstanding Preceptor in Rural Family Medicine
Milton Zadina, M.D., named Outstanding Preceptor in Rural Family Medicine Patient, friendly, kind. That’s how Columbus, Neb., family physician, Milton Zadina, M.D., is regarded by the numerous students who’ve had the opportunity to precept under him. “He’s very approachable, very interested in his students,” said Lucas McKnight, a fourth-year medical student at UNMC who spent […]
Apr 22, 2008
National Institute of Medicine report findings: health care work force too small, unprepared for aging baby boomers
Jane Potter, M.D., and her fellow colleagues have known for a long time that America will be faced with a shortage of geriatricians if drastic measures aren’t taken. Dr. Potter, immediate past president of the American Geriatrics Society and chief of geriatrics and gerontology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, hopes the federal and […]
Apr 21, 2008
UNMC opens the region’s only low vision center today
A grand opening ceremony for the region’s only not-for-profit comprehensive center for visual rehabilitation of adults and children took place today at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. The $1.2 million Weigel Williamson Center for Visual Rehabilitation, at 38th Avenue and Jones Street, will provide a hub for low-vision services in the region. […]
Apr 16, 2008
UNMC physician helps create national guidelines for ICU patients developing fevers
A University of Nebraska Medical Center infectious disease specialist, Andre Kalil, M.D., was one of 11 experts from around the country to develop guidelines for what physicians should do when critically ill patients develop a new fever. The guidelines appear in the current issue of Critical Care Medicine, the leading medical journal for health professionals […]
Apr 11, 2008