Category: Kudos
UNMC graduate Dr. Wang honored for allied health education
Recent UNMC College of Allied Health Professions graduate Zhuo Wang, DPT, has been honored with the nationally prestigious 2021 Alpha Eta Lee Holder Award for Excellence in Graduate Allied Health Education. Dr. Wang, who has returned to her hometown of Sichuan, China, to practice as a physical therapist and a clinical instructor at the West […]
Oct 8, 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
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
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
Students’ food drive a success
In mid-November, students from various CAHP programs ran a campus-wide food drive for Thanksgiving. They collected a total of 663 items: 555 in Omaha and 108 in Kearney. The drive was sponsored by SUN-APTA, the Students of the University of Nebraska-American Physical Therapy Association, as a fall philanthropy project. Donations went to Heartland Hope Mission […]
Dec 1, 2020
Grammer elected to national board
Shaun Grammer, DMSc, PA-C, Director of Physician Assistant Education and Chair of the Department of Medical Sciences, was elected to the national Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA) Board of Directors to begin January 2021. The Board administers the Association’s financial affairs, appoints standing and ad hoc committees, and conducts all Association business between membership meetings. […]
Nov 9, 2020
Medical Nutrition Attends FNCE — Virtually
submitted by Mariah Jackson The Medical Nutrition Education Division has six nutrition research abstracts accepted to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo (FNCE), to be presented this October. FNCE is one of the world’s largest meetings of food and nutrition experts. More than 10,000 registered dietitian nutritionists, nutrition researchers, […]
Oct 5, 2020
