Category: Kudos

Associate Dean's Office, Extended Family, Kudos, RSTE, Uncategorized

Another Successful “Coats and Caps for Kids” Drive

On November 21, 2013, the Radiation Science Technology Education (RSTE) students, with support from the RSTE Alumni, delivered coats, hats, and gloves to the Miller Park Elementary School. Each year, the students collect new and gently used winter coats, caps, gloves, and monetary donations for the purchase of stocking caps and gloves for the children. […]

Nov 26, 2013

Associate Dean's Office, Clinical Laboratory Science, Kudos

CLS SHARING student abstract accepted to national conference

Clinical Laboratory Science students Krystal Davis and Amanda Stastny, along with faculty advisor, Ricki Otten, MT(ASCP)SC, will be in Nashville, TN on Saturday, February 1, 2014. They will present their poster, “An Interprofessional Guide to Laboratory Testing for Student-Run Free Clinics,” at the Society of Student-run Free Clinics’ national conference. This annual conference is a […]

Nov 15, 2013

Associate Dean's Office, Kudos, Physical Therapy

Congratulations to Mary Wood, Silver U recipient

Mary Wood was awarded the Chancellor’s Silver U for November, 2013. The celebration will be on Thursday, November 21, 2013, at 9:00 a.m. in the Bennett Hall Reading Room. Congratulations, Mary!

Nov 7, 2013

Associate Dean's Office, Cytotechnology, Extended Family, Kudos, Physician Assistant, RSTE

Of note…

A couple of articles of note from UNMC Today, in case you missed them, and a bit of horn-tooting (self-promotion, which I can’t help because I run the blog): Student Spotlight – Meet Nick Baker (Cytotechnology student) Two School of Allied Health Professions faculty have recently been named president-elect… Fran Higgins has two poems in […]

Nov 1, 2013

Associate Dean's Office, Kudos, RSTE

Congratulations to Lisa Bartenhagen!

Submitted by Tanya Custer Lisa Bartenhagen, MS, RT(R)(T), program director in our Radiation Therapy program, recently collaborated with the American Society of Radiologic Technologist to create a teaching module on Image Guided Radiation Therapy. Lisa’s directed reading within the module was titled Image Guided Radiation Therapy: Overview. The module will help radiation therapy educators teach […]

Oct 31, 2013

Associate Dean's Office, Kudos, Physician Assistant

PA Team takes the Gold!

A hint of spud lingered near the third floor entrance to Bennett Hall even after the last scavenger hunt team passed the potato. Yes, that was the task at my Spirit Week volunteer station. As each team lined up below the walkway from Wittson to Bennett, I placed a large potato between the first person’s […]

Oct 30, 2013

Associate Dean's Office, Kudos, RSTE

Congratulations to Marcia Hess Smith, President-Elect

Marcia Hess Smith, BS, CNMT, program director of our Nuclear Medicine Technology Education program, won the position of President-Elect for the Board of Directors of the Nuclear Medicine Technologist Certification Board, their profession’s national certification body. Congratulations, Marcia!

Oct 28, 2013

Associate Dean's Office, Kudos, Physical Therapy

PT Awardees in the news

In case you missed this in UNMC Today: Dawn Venema, Ph.D., and Sara Bills, of UNMC’s department of physical therapy education, were honored…

Oct 25, 2013

Associate Dean's Office, Kudos, Physician Assistant

Congratulations, Stephane VanderMeulen, president-elect for national association

At the recent Physician Assistant Education Association’s (PAEA’s) meetings in Memphis, TN, Stephane VanderMeulen, MPAS, PA-C, assistant professor in the division of PA education, was elected president-elect for the national association. PAEA is the only national organization representing physician assistant education in the United States. Currently there are 181 accredited entry-level programs in the country […]

Oct 24, 2013

Kudos, Physical Therapy

How do you make "billing and coding" fun?

When Dr. Pat Hageman, the course instructor for PHYT 502 Foundations in PT, realized her lecture on “billing and coding for reimbursement of PT services” was scheduled immediately prior to the students’ Anatomy exam on “head and neck” content, she improvised by switching her lecture into a “game” versus a lecture. Professor Betsy Becker, course […]