Category: Health
Charles O’Malley Trust leaves lasting impact on UNMC
by Kalani Simpson, strategic communications | November 09, 2021 You’ve never seen anyone so happy to realize the money’s all spent. “The three of us have been talking about how lucky we are,” Brian O’Malley said, “and how much this would have meant to Uncle Chuck.” This was at a recent celebration marking the decade-plus […]
Nov 9, 2021
New respiratory therapy program approved for UNMC
by Karen Burbach, UNMC strategic communications | August 16, 2021 UNMC will launch a new master’s level respiratory therapy educational program to help meet workforce demands that are projected to increase 19 percent over the next decade. The NU Board of Regents on Friday approved the program, which is one of only six “entry-level” master’s […]
Aug 16, 2021
Scholarship Award Winner Anh Nguyen
Congratulations to UNMC physical therapy student Anh Nguyen, who was recently named an American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) Minority Scholarship award winner. This national scholarship is offered to minority physical therapy students by the Minority Scholarship Fund, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization supported by the APTA. Each awardee receives a certificate and a monetary award of […]
Aug 6, 2021
Grammer serves PA profession, students as PAEA board member
Des Moines University recently published a great article about our PA program director and chair of the department of medical sciences Shaun Grammer, DMSc, PA-C: In elementary school, Shaun Grammer, D.M.Sc., PA-C’07, would finish his homework and circulate around the classroom to assist other students. He enrolled at Iowa State University with the initial plan […]
Jun 25, 2021
MLS graduates publish case study in national newsletter
The June American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS) Today newsletter published a case study by two of our 2021 medical laboratory science graduates, Kora Freeman and Izabel Hanson. They worked on the project for scholarly activity in a course. UNMC faculty Linsey Donner and Sandra Latshaw, as well as their University of Missouri – […]
Jun 2, 2021
Welcome new faculty: Amber Lickert
Amber Lickert, MPS, CCP, LP, is an assistant professor in our clinical perfusion education program. Here’s more about Amber in her own words: “I grew up in Carter Lake, IA and first began my journey in the UN/Nebraska Medicine system when I was 18 years old. During undergraduate school at the University of Nebraska Omaha, […]
May 27, 2021
2021 Annual CAHP Awards Winners
This year, winners of the College of Allied Health Professions (CAHP) annual awards were honored at the convocation ceremony on May 7, 2021. The Awards and Recognition Committee and Research Development and Management Committee is pleased to announce the 2021 CAHP Awardees. Anne Wildermuth, MMS, PA-C, RD, assistant professor, associate program director (MPAS) and admissions […]
May 21, 2021
Happy Perfusion Appreciation Week!
by David W. Holt, MA, CCT, program director of Clinical Perfusion Education This week is celebrated as Perfusion Appreciation Week, recognizing perfusionists globally in the normal practice of patient support in open-heart surgery, blood management in orthopedic, vascular, oncological, and OB-GYN practices, and recently who have played an important role on the front lines of the pandemic by […]
May 3, 2021
Another great UNMC showing at this year’s virtual NSRT conference
article by Michael Dutt In the spring of 2021 the Nebraska Society of Radiologic Technologists hosted their annual Business Session. Normally the business session is part of the larger Annual Conference, but due to COVID-19 the conference was re-imagined for the 2021 year. Instead of the usual 3-day event held in person, the NSRT offered […]
Apr 21, 2021
Celebrating DNA Day!
By Jessie Poskochil and Charlie King Did you know that James C. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick discovered that DNA is in the shape of a double helix in 1953? This remains one of the major milestones in scientific discovery. Fifty years later, the Human Genome Project was completed, marking the creation of a reference […]
Apr 20, 2021
