Infectious Diseases

UNMC leaders discuss defense collaborations at regents meeting

Interim Chancellor H. Dele Davies, MD, and John Lowe, PhD, spoke to board.

Oct 3, 2025

UNMC Interim Chancellor H. Dele Davies, MD, addresses the Board of Regents Friday.

UNMC leaders discuss defense collaborations at regents meeting

Interim Chancellor H. Dele Davies, MD, and John Lowe, PhD, spoke to the NU Board of Regents at its Friday meeting at UNMC.

Oct 3, 2025

UNMC Interim Chancellor H. Dele Davies, MD, addresses the Board of Regents Friday.

UNMC hosts leadership from ASPR

The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response is a key partner in UNMC and Nebraska Medicine’s biopreparedness efforts.

Sep 16, 2025

John Lowe, PhD, director of the UNMC Global Center for Health Security, showcases the Isolation System for Treatment and Agile Response for High-Risk Infections, or ISTARI, portable negative pressure containment patient care system to John Knox, ASPR's principal deputy assistant secretary for preparedness and response.

UNMC, NETEC participate in ‘Tranquil Passport’

The exercise, which involved more than 50 organizations, tested procedures for safely transporting infectious disease patients.

Aug 14, 2025

The training exercise, called Tranquil Passport, evaluated transportation plans, processes and procedures while utilizing the new Portable Biocontainment Unit.

Remembering Phil Smith, MD, Nebraska’s father of biopreparedness

Dr. Smith leaves a legacy in establishing UNMC and Nebraska Medicine at the global front in fighting infectious diseases. 

Jul 25, 2025

Phil Smith, MD, 1946-2025

New portable unit boosts UNMC’s biocontainment response

The unit, which UNMC received in April, is the first of its kind and can be deployed in the fight against highly infectious diseases.

Jun 13, 2025

Staff from the Global Center for Health Security greeted the Portable Biocontainment Unit upon its delivery to the UNMC Omaha campus.

UNMC among 33 centers to join special lung disease network

The Bronchiectasis and NTM Care Center Network facilitates access to high-quality care for bronchiectasis and NTM lung disease.

Mar 24, 2025

Rick Starlin, MD

East African, UNMC leaders gather at health security summit

UNMC’s Global Center for Health Security co-convened the event, which was held in Kenya.

Mar 19, 2025

The East Africa Region Global Health Security Summit 2025 was co-convened by the UNMC Global Center for Health Security, the Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention Eastern Africa Regional Coordinating Centre and other partners. (Photo credit Team Lifestyle Forever)

Dr. Ashraf named to CDC committee role

Muhammad Salman Ashraf, MBBS, has been appointed to the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee.

Mar 18, 2025

Muhammad Salman Ashraf, MBBS

C-STARS Director Schnaubelt, MD, promoted to colonel

Col. Elizabeth Schnaubelt is credited as a huge champion of the collaboration between the U.S. Air Force and UNMC.

Mar 10, 2025

Air Force Lt. Col. Elizabeth Schnaubelt, MD, was promoted to the rank of colonel with assistance from her father, United States Army Col. (ret.) Thomas Rini, at left.
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