Outreach

Omaha’s great apes in caring hands

A partnership between UNMC and the Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium brings preventative, specialized health care – such as echocardiograms – to Omaha’s gorillas.

Sep 25, 2024

Omaha's great apes in caring hands

Matt Blomstedt, PhD, named chief university lobbyist

Dr. Blomstedt is a lifelong Nebraskan with decades of experience in education and public policy.

Sep 23, 2024

Matt Blomstedt, PhD

Inaugural associate pharmacy dean named for Kearney campus

Linda Sobeski, PharmD, will lead the UNMC College of Pharmacy program based at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.

Sep 16, 2024

Linda Sobeski, PharmD

Statewide meetings show BHECN-ARPA support benefits Nebraska

The Behavioral Health Education Center of Nebraska hosted workshops with organizations that received ARPA funding allocated by the Nebraska Legislature.

Sep 12, 2024

BHECN Central Director Krista Fritson, PsyD, center, talks at a gathering of ARPA awardees at the University of Nebraska at Kearney in June.

Dr. Davies visits Macy on community outreach trip

The interim chancellor attended a Umoⁿhoⁿ Tribe powwow, met with local leaders and listened to hear the issues that are important in the northeast Nebraska community.

Sep 9, 2024

From left, Lisa Spellman, tribal leader Dustin Lovejoy, Siobhan Wescott, MD, and UNMC Interim Chancellor Dele Davies, MD

BHECN launches East Site to address Omaha-area workforce challenges

The new location is at the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Grace Abbott School of Social Work.

Sep 5, 2024

Marley Doyle, MD

Inaugural associate medical dean named for Kearney campus

Robert Messbarger, MD, will lead the UNMC College of Medicine program based at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.

Sep 4, 2024

Robert Messbarger, MD

UNK, UNMC students provide medical care in Peru

The experience in South America showed the students that the goal of their care was the same: Help patients as best you can.

Sep 3, 2024

UNK student Kennady Schmidt works with a family during a medical outreach trip to Peru. Students assisted at six mobile medical clinics during their two-week stay. (Courtesy photo)

BHECN partnership strengthens the behavioral health workforce

Graduate-level education programs across Nebraska are collaborating with powerful benefits for behavioral health services.

Aug 30, 2024

Joe Evans, PhD, Marley Doyle, MD, and Kati Cordts, PhD

UNMC achievements, Aug. 30, 2024

A manuscript published in Nature Communications, new roles in the Nebraska Medical Association and the UNMC College of Pharmacy serving as a host site.

Aug 30, 2024

Gloria Borgstahl, PhD