Inside UNMC

MMI again earns selection as Nebraska’s UCEDD

The federal designation for the Munroe-Meyer Institute as Nebraska’s University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities for Education Research and Service dates to 1968.

Aug 1, 2022

Mark Shriver, PhD

Director’s message: MMI interns represent the future

A total of 23 new interns started at the Munroe-Meyer Institute in July through the nationally accredited Nebraska Internship Consortium.

Aug 1, 2022

Keith Allen, PhD

UNMC response model adapted in Sudan

Nada Fadul, MD, helped create the Community Medical Response Team model, and that is now being applied to public health issues by engineering students.

Aug 1, 2022

Nada Fadul, MD

MMI’s Silver U Award winner: Sydney Norton

Norton, who joined MMI in 2019, is a speech-language pathologist and works at the RiteCare Clinic in Hastings.

Jul 30, 2022

Sydney Norton

UNMC for the record, July 29, 2022

News items on Ashley Wysong, MD, named to a fellowship and registration open for the CHRI Pediatric Academic Workshop.

Jul 29, 2022

Ashley Wysong, MD

MMI grant work with Winnebago Tribe in the spotlight

The University of Nebraska’s Buffett Early Childhood Institute has highlighted the grant work of Amy Encinger, PhD, of UNMC’s Munroe-Meyer Institute.

Jul 29, 2022

Amy Encinger, PhD

New faculty spotlight: Po-Jung Chen, DDS

Po-Jung Chen, DDS, is an assistant professor of growth and development and orthodontics in the UNMC College of Dentistry.

Jul 28, 2022

Po-Jung Chen, DDS

Transit users must be registered for TravelSmart

For the last year, med center employees using TravelSmart have not been required to swipe their badges for Metro rides, but that is no longer the case.

Jul 28, 2022

Shelly Schwedhelm: Leading from out front

After 40 years of service with the med center, Schwedhelm says she’s achieved everything she ever wanted, but she’s not done yet.

Jul 28, 2022

Shelly Schwedhelm celebrates 40 years of service at the med center this month.

UNMC leadership to visit Kearney for event Aug. 4

Leaders, including Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, will meet with alumni and preceptors at a reception sponsored by the UNMC Alumni Association and the Office of Rural Health Initiatives.

Jul 28, 2022

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