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Siu and team receive patent for simulator
Joseph Siu, PhD, along with Carl Nelson, PhD, and Hesham Ali, PhD, recently received a patent for a Portable Camera Aided Simulator (PortCAS) for Minimally Invasive Surgical Training. PortCAS is the first product their research team developed in their start-up company, Adeptus Interactive, currently incubated in UNeTECH. PortCAS is a portable and low-cost trainer for […]
Jul 1, 2022

Welcome new staff: Lauren Schiefelbein
Lauren Schiefelbein, MLS(ASCP)CM, recently joined our Medical Laboratory Science managerial/professional staff as the Education Coordinator. Here’s more about Lauren in her own words: I am a local Nebraskan, having grown up in Bellevue. I studied at UNL, UNO, and eventually UNMC to obtain degrees in Biology and Medical Laboratory Science. Before entering the laboratory, I […]
Jun 30, 2022

Welcome new staff: Traci McKeon
Traci McKeon, BS, MS, recently joined UNMC as the new Simulation and Clinical Skills Specialist for both CAHP and CON at the Health Science Education Complex on the UNK Campus. Traci attended UNK for her undergraduate degree in the 1990’s and most recently graduated from UNK in 2017 with her MS in Education in Instructional […]
Jun 29, 2022

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