Category: Kudos
Perfusion student awarded first place scholarship for presentation
Clinical perfusion student Halle Swann garnered first place for the 2018 Ken Farmer Memorial Scholarship at the Sanibel Symposium perfusion meeting in Fort Myers, FL on April 7, 2018. Swann presented a unique case experience from Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha entitled “Dual Arterial Cannulation for Aortic Arch Repair in an Infant- Avoiding […]
Apr 9, 2018
2018 Annual CAHP Awards Ceremony and Forum
The annual College of Allied Health Professions Awards Ceremony will take place on Wednesday, May 2, 2018 from 1:05 p.m. to 2:00 p.m in MSC 3002. Joseph Anderson, MD, professor of radiology, will be honored for Excellence in Teaching. Recipients of this award hold a faculty appointment in the CAHP and demonstrate outstanding skills in […]
Mar 27, 2018
Candygram Valentines benefit Ronald McDonald House
In February, the CAHP Employee Wellness Committee encouraged everyone to “spread love and gratitude” with a thank-you candygram on Valentine’s Day. Recipients received a carnation, small bag of candy, and a thank-you from the sender, but the event was also a fundraiser for the Ronald McDonald House. The committee delivered 50 candygrams in Kearney and […]
Mar 8, 2018
Tower Trek Triumph
What has 40 floors (870 steps) and shoots 633 feet into the Omaha sky? It’s the First National Bank building, and the home of the annual Trek Up the Tower event, which supports WELLCOM, a nonprofit organization dedicated to worksite wellness. Saturday, February 17, 2018, marked another triumph for our CAHP 14-person tower trekking team. […]
Mar 6, 2018
PT represents at 49th Midwest Student Biomedical Research Forum
On February 17, 2018, representatives from the UNMC Division of Physical Therapy Education attended the 49th Midwest Student Biomedical Research Forum at Creighton University. PT1 student Chun Feng, PT faculty member Joseph Siu, PhD, and post-doctoral research associate JC Chien, PhD, participated, along with students slated to begin the DPT program in August. Those four, […]
Mar 2, 2018
Impact in Education: Tanya Custer and Kim Michael
Kim Michael, associate professor and program director in diagnostic medical sonography, and Tanya Custer, assistant professor in medical imaging and therapeutic sciences, are two of the recipients of the Office of Academic Affairs 2017 Impact in Education Awards. They will receive the Innovative Practices in Education Award. Read full article in UNMC Today>>
Jan 4, 2018
Siu and Chien – superstar finalists
Ka-Chun (Joseph) Siu, PhD, associate professor in the UNMC Division of Physical Therapy Education and director of the Chinese MS-DPT program, and Jung Hung (JC) Chien, PhD, post-doctoral research associate were selected recently as finalists at the Institutional Development Award (IDeA)-Clinical and Translational Research (CTR) superstar competition. “We pitched our research idea at the annual […]
Jan 2, 2018
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
