Category: Research
Langel promoted to CAHP director of research
We are pleased to announce that Meghan Langel, MPH, has been promoted to the position of Director of Research in the College. Meghan began her career at UNMC as a research assistant in the College of Public Health. Since then she has held progressively responsible research support roles in the College, before assuming the position […]
Jan 22, 2019
PT faculty member interviewed for PT in Motion article
PT faculty member, Patricia (Pat) Hageman, PhD, is cited in a December 2018 publication, PT in Motion. The article highlighted an exchange of views between the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) “Emerging Leader” awardees and members of the Association’s highest membership category called the Catherine Worthingham Fellows (FAPTA). Hageman, a FAPTA, commented that some of […]
Dec 10, 2018
PAs garner grant to improve rural health
Carey Wheelhouse, MSPAS, PA-C, Principal Investigator, and Co-Investigators, Mia Hyde, MPAS, PA-C; Wayne Mathews, MS, PA-C; and Annie Wildermuth, MMS, PA-C, RD, were awarded a pilot grant from the Central State Center for Agricultural Safety. The purpose of their grant, “Improving Agricultural Worker Health and Safety Awareness through Multimodal, Case-Based Physician Assistant Education,” is to […]
Nov 7, 2018
Hanson, Anderson Berry, and team receive $1.2m for nutrition research with Norway
Corrine Hanson, PhD, PhD, RD, LMNT, FAND, and Ann Anderson Berry, MD, PhD, (Pediatrics) are part of a collaborative team that received $1.2m in funding from the University Board of the University of Agder in Christensand, Norway to work with the University of Agder to establish a Priority Research Center on Lifecourse Nutrition. Nina Obervy, […]
Oct 25, 2018
Collaboration turns into Recognition
A new collaboration between Pat Hageman, PT, PhD, FAPTA, Michael Yoerger, MA, and Liz Wellsandt, PT, PhD, examined 30-month weight loss and weight maintenance outcomes of women with obesity and physician-diagnosed arthritis. Their findings showed that women who have weight losses of ≥ 5% of baseline body weight had clinically relevant improvements in blood pressure, […]
Apr 11, 2018
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
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
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
Hanson and Anderson Berry publish important findings, impact lives of preemies
PLOS One, a leading peer-reviewed journal, published a study by co-principal investigators Corrine Hanson, PhD, associate professor in our medical nutrition education program and Ann Anderson Berry, MD, associate professor in UNMC’s division of newborn medicine. Their study means premature babies will receive twice the previously recommended dose of vitamin D, now. “This finding […]
Oct 23, 2017
