| PGY-4 | ||
 Samir Atiya, MD |
 Daniel Harter, MD |
 Frankie Smith, MD |
| PGY-3 | ||
 Ahmad Alshomrani, MBBS |
 Ashley Hein, MD |
 Pranav Renavikar, MBBS |
| PGY-2 | ||
 Jordan Burr, DO |
 Austin Helmink, MD |
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| PGY-1 | ||
Daniel Harter, MD (PGY-4)
Frankie Smith, MD (PG-4)
Welcome to the University of Nebraska Medical Center Department of Pathology and Microbiology! We are excited for your interest in our program. We are Daniel Harter and Frankie Smith, the chief residents in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology. Frankie is a native from Omaha and completed her MD at UNMC in 2019, and will be pursuing a fellowship in surgical pathology in 2023. Daniel is from Colorado and completed his MD at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in 2019, and will be pursuing a fellowship in GI/Liver/Pancreatobiliary pathology in 2023.
Our program offers fantastic opportunities in all aspects of anatomic and clinical pathology education and practice. As the major academic and referral medical center for Nebraska, we average over 60,000 surgical specimens per year from all organ systems, including daily intraoperative diagnoses in-house and by telepathology at other medical facilities, and practice subspecialty signout. We are a major center for solid organ transplant and benefit from regularly performed donor organ assessment as well. In addition to solid organ, we are the largest bone marrow transplant program for the state and participate in the diagnosis and follow-up of thousands of hematolymphoid malignancy cases per year. Our hospital autopsy service is likewise active.
Our clinical pathology services are also highly regarded. In addition to our very active hospital microbiology laboratory, our department houses the state microbiology and toxicology laboratories and the federally funded biocontainment unit for BSL4 infectious agents, which gained major headlines during the recent COVID pandemic as well as the Ebola scare before that. Our apheresis service has one of the largest sickle cell exchange programs in the world and performs approximately 2000 procedures per year. Our constantly growing molecular pathology groups accomplish tissue typing and crossmatches for organ transplant, participate in forensic analysis, and house numerous targeted sequencing platforms. We are the clinical chemists and blood bankers for UNMC and outlying hospitals.
In terms of lifestyle, Omaha is one of the “hidden gems” of the country. While sustaining a robust college age population from both the University of Nebraska and Creighton, you will quickly find that the city is an easy to navigate, comparatively inexpensive place to live with a large restaurant scene and plenty of fun activities for adults and families. While we are proud of the many strengths of our program, one of the “hidden benefits” of our residency is the city and home you go to at the end of each day. Our formal benefits are also highly competitive.
Please browse the information on this website and feel free to reach out to our program coordinator, Kim Martin (kimberly.martin@unmc.edu) or to one of us (frankie.smith@unmc.edu or daniel.harter@unmc.edu) if there is anything we can do to help.