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University of Nebraska Medical Center

Category: Education

Medical nutrition tapped as demonstration program

The UNMC College of Allied Health Professions master of medical nutrition (MMN) program will be one of approximately 20 programs in the country that will serve as a first cohort demonstration site for the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics. The college will serve as a site for ACEND’s Graduate Degree Program Future […]

Dec 31, 2017

Karen Honeycutt named Educator Laureate for 2017

Karen Honeycutt, associate professor and program director in the UNMC Division of Medical Laboratory Science in the College of Allied Health Professions, has been named UNMC’s 2017 Varner Educator Laureate. She will be honored, along with six fellow faculty members, at the Academic Affairs Impact in Education Awards Ceremony at 3 p.m. on Jan. 11 […]

Dec 30, 2017

Tanya Custer receives ASRT Foundation funding

The American Society of Radiologic Technologists Foundation has funded a research project by Tanya Custer, assistant professor and distance education coordinator for the UNMC Department of Medical Imaging & Therapeutic Sciences in the College of Allied Health Professions. Custer’s study will evaluate the role of e-modules in imaging science curricula at three academic medical centers. […]

Dec 29, 2017

Welcome new faculty: Holly Zimmerman

Holly Zimmerman, MS, CGC, recently joined the College of Allied Health Professions as an Assistant Professor and inaugural director of the Genetic Counseling program planned to accept its first class in fall of 2019. Holly earned her Master of Science in Genetic Counseling from the University of South Carolina in 2007. Originally from Mississippi, she […]

Nov 17, 2017

Michael honored with fellowship

The Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography (SDMS) inducted Kimberly Michael, MA, RT(R), RDMS, RVT, FSDMS, as SDMS Fellow. Fellow designation is the highest honor the Society can bestow on a member. An SDMS Fellow exhibits professional qualities and attributes by contributing to the advancement of sonography and supporting the SDMS. Kyle Meyer, PhD, dean of […]

Oct 24, 2017

Hanson and Anderson Berry publish important findings, impact lives of preemies

  PLOS One, a leading peer-reviewed journal, published a study by co-principal investigators Corrine Hanson, PhD, associate professor in our medical nutrition education program and Ann Anderson Berry, MD, associate professor in UNMC’s division of newborn medicine. Their study means premature babies will receive twice the previously recommended dose of vitamin D, now. “This finding […]

Oct 23, 2017

Welcome new faculty: Amanda Stastny

Amanda Stastny, MLS(ASCP)CM, MBCM, recently joined our Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) faculty. She graduated from our MLS program in 2014 and since then has been working in medical microbiology at Nebraska Medicine. “I have strong interests in technology, microscopy, and active learning, so I’m excited to begin working on the microscopy imaging project for the […]

Oct 19, 2017

Meyer and O’Neil present shared governance at conference

CAHP dean, Kyle Meyer, PhD, and assistant dean for finance and administration, Pat O’Neil, presented at the Central Association of College and University Business Officers (CACUBO) conference last week in Columbus, Ohio. Their presentation, “A Model for Reconciling Competing Demands between Shared and Administrative Governance,” discussed the creation and implementation of our collaborative governance committee […]

Oct 10, 2017

Perfusion students, Swan and Glock, present research in CA

Two students in our clinical perfusion education program gave oral and poster presentations on Friday, September 29, 2017 at the 37th Annual Cardiothoracic Research and Education Forum (CREF) at San Diego’s Westin Gaslamp in San Diego, CA. Halle Swan presented on the technical development of a new type of suction apparatus improving safety in open-heart […]

Oct 3, 2017

Wonder Woman Wellsandt

What did you do on your summer vacation? For Liz Wellsandt, PT, DPT, PhD, OCS, assistant professor in our division of physical therapy education, it was an exciting and busy few months! The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) named Liz an APTA Emerging Leader, she received an APTA New Investigator grant, and she just had […]

Sep 22, 2017