{"id":127073,"date":"2025-10-23T01:52:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T06:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=127073"},"modified":"2025-10-22T12:07:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:07:59","slug":"new-faculty-spotlight-ashley-hein-md","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2025\/10\/23\/new-faculty-spotlight-ashley-hein-md\/","title":{"rendered":"New faculty spotlight: Ashley Hein, MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>Ashley Hein, MD, is a new faculty member at UNMC.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Name: <\/strong>Ashley Hein, MD<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Title and department at UNMC: <\/strong>Assistant professor, UNMC Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hometown: <\/strong>Omaha<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research\/professional interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gastrointestinal and liver pathology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How I fell in love with pathology:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What drew me to pathology is that with the use of a microscope we can see the structure and organization that is present within all living things. 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