Patient Care

Innovation Design Unit wraps up first phase of planning

Architects, colleagues, physicians and faculty now are working together on a design for the new inpatient unit, which is scheduled to open at the end of 2024.

Aug 30, 2022

New faculty spotlight: Haley Phillips, MD

Haley Phillips, MD, is an assistant professor in the UNMC Department of Neurological Sciences and epilepsy physician at Nebraska Medicine.

Aug 29, 2022

Evusheld available for all immunocompromised patients

The injections were previously only offered to those in highest risk categories.

Aug 18, 2022

New faculty spotlight: Ryan Jorgenson, MD

Dr. Jorgenson is an instructor and advanced emergency medicine ultrasonography fellow in the UNMC Department of Emergency Medicine.

Aug 10, 2022

Ryan Jorgenson, MD

Med center ‘stars’ open new, premier IBD center

The Frederick F. Paustian Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center is designed to become a top center for treatment and research of inflammatory bowel disease.

Aug 9, 2022

Med center leaders and philanthropists cut the ribbon on the Frederick F. Paustian Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at the Nebraska Medical Center.

New faculty spotlight: Kiel Woodward, MD

Kiel Woodward, MD, is an assistant professor in the UNMC Department of Neurological Sciences, Division of Movement Disorders

Aug 1, 2022

Kiel Woodward, MD

A personal look at the Buffett Cancer Center’s impact

To mark the cancer center’s five-year anniversary, patients offered their testimonials, while leaders shared their reactions.

Jul 18, 2022

New faculty spotlight: Josue Avecillas-Chasin, MD, PhD

Dr. Avecillas-Chasin is an assistant professor in the UNMC Department of Neurosurgery and a neurological surgery physician with Nebraska Medicine.

Jul 11, 2022

Josue Avecillas-Chasin, MD, PhD

Innovative nebulizer design affordable, accessible

The UNMC Department of Emergency Medicine teamed with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, others for open-source mechanism.

Jun 6, 2022

From left, Kurt Palik, PhD, of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Thang Nguyen, PhD, of the UNMC Department of Emergency Medicine

UNMC team invents way to alleviate anxiety for brain surgery

The procedure is used to alleviate the symptoms of diseases such as Parkinson’s, essential tremor, dystonia and other neurological conditions.

Jun 6, 2022

Aviva Abosch, MD, PhD, chair of the UNMC Department of Neurosurgery wears the 3D printed replica next to the stereotactic head frame device used in surgery. The 3D device is used to simulate the wear of the stereotactic head frame, which stabilizes the patient's head during certain surgeries that require that the patient be awake.