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UNMC kicks off its United Way campaign
Today, UNMC kicks off its United Way campaign with a goal of $125,000. Campaign contributions, which can be made through UNMC’s payroll deduction, help support more than 145 health and human service programs across the Omaha-Council Bluffs-Bellevue metropolitan areas.
Oct 6, 2003
Physician assistants honored nationally
UNMC’s physician assistant program was still in its infancy when Mark Christiansen joined nearly 30 years ago. Today — National PA Day — he and other PAs will be honored for the quality care they provide to millions of Americans.
Oct 6, 2003
Doing GREAT benefits students, youths with developmental disabilities
A growing number of students are participating in Doing GREAT – an acronym for Graduating with Resources, Education, Awareness and Training. The program allows high school students to assist children ages 3 to 21 with developmental disabilities.
Oct 3, 2003
Williams honored with Lifetime Achievement award
When Bud Shaw, M.D., came to UNMC in 1985 from Pittsburgh to establish the liver transplant program, he knew of no better person to bring along than Laurel Williams, R.N., M.S.N., manager of the Liver and Intestinal Coordinators Organ Transplantation Program. Earlier this year, Williams was given the Novartis Lifetime Achievement award from the North American Transplant Coordinator’s Organization.
Oct 3, 2003
Graduate training coordinator retires after 35 years
Mary Ann Casey will give a bittersweet farewell to friends and colleagues at UNMC — a place she has called her second home for the past 35 years. She retires today as coordinator of graduate training in UNMC’s family medicine department.
Oct 3, 2003
Scientists reach consensus on key scientific issues related to perchlorate
The 2003 Perchlorate State-of-the-Science Symposium concluded Wednesday in Omaha, with leading scientists verbally presenting their consensus reports on some of the most recent scientific studies on perchlorate. The significance of these results is that it questions the basic assumptions of a number of recent and influential government efforts to assess the safe level of perchlorate exposure.
Oct 3, 2003
System designed to prepare community in case of disaster
In recent years, terrorism has become an everyday threat in the United States. As a result, many agencies and organizations have formed disaster plans in the event of a weapons of mass destruction event. One of these organizations, the Omaha Metropolitan Medical Response System (OMMRS) has worked since 1998 to prepare the medical community in case such an event occurs.
Oct 2, 2003
Emergency medicine residency formed at UNMC
UNMC has formed a residency program in emergency medicine, and the new program should benefit the emergency care of citizens across Nebraska and the region. The first six physicians of the UNMC Emergency Medicine Residency Program will begin their three-year residencies in July 2004.
Oct 2, 2003
Hot dogs and colon cancer – is there a link?
Can eating too many hot dogs contribute to colon cancer? That’s what Sidney Mirvish, Ph.D., a professor in the Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases, would like to know.
Oct 1, 2003
Partnership brings Armenian nurses to campus
Two master’s level nursing students from Erebouni College of Medicine in Yerevan, Armenia, recently spent a whirlwind week in Omaha touring UNMC, several health clinics and taking in some of the local culture.
Oct 1, 2003