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Wayne Mathews, a Luminary Fellow

Physician Assistant Education Associate Professor and Research Director Wayne Mathews was recently selected as one of the top candidates for the Luminary Fellowship track with Doximity. Doximity is a national medical network for physicians and advanced practice providers, covering current issues related to health care and provider wellness. A Luminary Fellow is a regular content […]

Aug 3, 2022

Portrait of Wayne Mathews

2022 Annual CAHP Awards Winners

At the convocation ceremony in May, we honored the recipients of the College of Allied Health Professions (CAHP) annual awards. The Awards and Recognition Committee and Research Development and Management Committee were pleased to announce the 2022 CAHP Awardees: Assistant Professor and Chemistry Coordinator for Medical Laboratory Science in the Department of Clinical, Diagnostic, & […]

Jul 18, 2022

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Looking for student workers

STUDENTS: We are looking for UNMC students interested in working 3-10 hours per week for $15/hr. There is a variety of work rotating within the departments with data entry, filing, event prep, and more. If interested, contact kelly.srack@unmc.edu

Sep 23, 2021

Celebrating our CAHP Research Administrators

by Laura Bilek, PhD, Associate Dean for Research Research Administrators Day is Saturday, September, 25, 2021! In celebration, the College of Allied Health Professions celebrates the invaluable contributions of our research coordinators and grant administrators. As they do not interact with the broader faculty, many in the college are not aware of our research professionals’ […]

Sep 21, 2021

Special Olympics Nebraska presents Kearney UNMC students with highest honor

by Kalani Simpson, strategic communications | September 15, 2021 for UNMC Today Special Olympics Nebraska recently presented UNMC’s Health Science Education Complex (HSEC) students with its highest honor for health partners — the prestigious Golisano Health Leadership Award. The honor recognizes “health champions” that make significant contributions to equal access to health, fitness and wellness […]

Sep 15, 2021

Ralston High School Medical Academy visits MLS at UNMC

Ralston High School Medical Academy juniors and seniors recently explored the Medical Laboratory Science profession with current UNMC students and faculty. They spent the afternoon in the newly renovated student laboratory and completed a case study where they conducted routine laboratory tests for a pregnant individual. As part of this testing, students learned to interpret […]

Sep 14, 2021

New Orthopedic PT Residency Program Begins

by Megan Frazee, DPT The University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) College of Allied Health Professions recently launched an Orthopedic Physical Therapy Residency program this year. The initial cohort of residents, Renee Herbers, DPT, and Caleb Nabower, DPT, started on August 2, 2021. This residency is a 13-month, post-professional training program that includes clinical practice […]

Sep 10, 2021

Flores, Waltman, and Bilek to present ​findings of 5-year trial at national conference

Prevention of Osteoporosis is a hot topic! Laura Flores, BA, Nancy Waltman, PhD, and Laura Bilek, PhD, are studying bone loss across the lifespan and the best ways to prevent it, both with exercise and with medicine. Dr. Bilek’s lab is interested in how to keep bones healthy across all populations, including pediatric cancer patients, […]

Aug 27, 2021

Individually Rare, Collectively Common

By Elyssa Gray, Erin Loughney, & Katie Tlusty Rare disease dayOver 300 million people worldwide are affected by a rare disease. In the United States alone, there are over 7,000 rare diseases affecting around 30 million people. Individually, these diseases are rare, but rare diseases are collectively common. Rare diseases span the medical spectrum from […]

Feb 24, 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