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Category: Health

Celebrating PA Week: The History of the Physician Assistant Profession

In honor of National Physician Assistant Week, some of our PA students put together some information. They kick it off with a bit of history. With a lack of Primary Care providers, healthcare was not very accessible in the 1960’s. The solution was the creation of the Physician Assistant profession. It all began with Dr. […]

Oct 8, 2018

Forty Years of Learning Something New Daily

By Joe Evans, Nebraska Medicine | September 25, 2018 What do you want to be when you grow up? It is the question we were all confronted with as we prepared to graduate high school. Like many of us, Karen Keller didn’t know the answer. Fast forward four decades later, and Keller could not be […]

Sep 27, 2018

Medical Nutrition receives approval for demonstration program

Medical Nutrition received the formal approval for their Future Education Model Graduate Degree (FG) Program. In December, UNMC Today ran a detailed story about the program and now it’s official. Said CAHP dean Kyle Meyer, PhD, “Their strategic vision of the medical nutrition faculty to develop the new professional master’s program and their diligence in […]

Sep 24, 2018

UNMC-ya later takes 4th in marathon relay

On Saturday, September 8, 2018, Kevin Howard, Melissa Dorr, Jon Kilstrom, Carey Wheelhouse,  and Carey’s husband, Pete, completed the Wabash Trace Nature Trail Marathon Relay in Iowa. Their team, “UNMC-ya later,” placed 4th out of 19 relay teams with a finish time of 3:44:59. Their per mile pace was 8:36.

Sep 11, 2018

MITS faculty at annual meeting in SC

Numerous MITS faculty attended the Association of Educators in Imaging and Radiologic Sciences annual meeting in Charleston, SC. Tanya Custer and Kim Michael presented a lecture on Case Study-Based E-Learning Modules in Radiologic Sciences Education: A Delicate Balance of Innovation, Time, and Educational Outcomes. Retired faculty Jim Temme was awarded life membership at the meeting. […]

Jul 20, 2018

Welcome new PA faculty: Shaun Grammer

We are excited to announce the hire of Shaun Grammer, M.S., PA-C who comes to us with 8 years of full-time academic experience in PA education. He completed his Physician Assistant training from Des Moines University and has practiced clinically in both Family Medicine and Pediatrics. He began his full-time academic career in 2010 and […]

Jul 9, 2018

UNMC PT students team with UNK students to help kids with developmental disabilities

by Vicky Cerino, UNMC public relations | June 07, 2018  Students in the UNMC Physical Therapy Education program in Kearney, along with engineering students at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, recently made three children and their families very happy. The students modified children’s electric cars for three girls between the ages of one and […]

Jun 7, 2018

Perfusion degree is culmination of long journey for Ralph Abalo

Story by Kalani Simpson, UNMC Public Relations, May 4, 2018 Ralph Abalo, who will graduate Saturday with a master of perfusion science degree from the College of Allied Health Professions, has a story of how he got here. It began on May 22, 2004. He knows the exact date, because that is when he first […]

May 4, 2018

Great showing at the 87th annual NSRT Conference

submitted by Tanya Custer, MS, RT(R)(T) It was a busy weekend for MITS students and faculty at the 87th Annual Nebraska Society of Radiologic Technology Conference in Grand Island, NE. Tanya Custer, Lisa Bartenhagen, Tammy Webster, Mike Dutt, Greg Mehrer and Kim Michael attended, along with various students in radiography (RT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), […]

Apr 23, 2018

Corrine Hanson, Ph.D. named Outstanding Mentor of Junior Faculty

Corrine Hanson, Ph.D., associate professor, medical nutrition education, College of Allied Health Professions, will receive the Outstanding Faculty Mentor of Junior Faculty Award at the annual Faculty Senate Awards ceremony, at 4 p.m., April 24 in the Durham Research Center Auditorium. Name: Corrine Hanson, Ph.D. Title: Associate professor, medical nutrition education, College of Allied Health […]

Apr 12, 2018