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We’re almost there…

Thank you to those SAHP faculty and staff who have already participated in this year’s United Way campaign. As of yesterday morning, the SAHP was leading the way on campus with 89% participation, and that’s awesome! We want to be even awesomer, however, by hitting 100% participation again for the third year in a row. […]

Sep 26, 2014

Publication for RSTE: Jones and Stevens

Congratulations to Tammy Jones, MPA, RT(R)(M), and Kristy Stevens, R.T.(R)(T), on the publication of their article in Radiologic Technology, “Dense Breast Notification: Anatomy, Imaging, and Patient Awareness,” vol 86:1, p17-22. Tammy is our program director in Radiography, CVIT, and CT, and Kristy is a student in our Radiation Therapy program. Well done!

Sep 23, 2014

Nuclear Medicine Student and Graduate Participate in Mock Drill

Healthcare professionals put aside their scrubs and wore radiation protective gear for a mock nuclear explosion drill in Scottsbluff on Wednesday. One of our graduates along with one of our current students, both from the nuclear medicine program, participated. Lauren Hess, a 2011 graduate and now a staff technologist at Regional West Medical Center (RWMC) […]

Sep 19, 2014

Pat O’Neil shoots a Hole-in-One!

An amateur golfer’s chance of an ace is 12,500 to 1. An ace is when a player hits the ball directly from the tee into the hole with one stroke. Also called a hole-in-one. You can read more stats like that and be discouraged, or you can ask Pat O’Neil, our SAHP director of finance […]

Sep 16, 2014

Jones, Venema, and Skinner publish in Journal of Rural Health

Congratulations to Katherine Jones, PT, PhD, Dawn Venema, PT, PhD, and Anne Skinner, BS, RHIA, who recently published in the Journal of Rural Health. This paper reflects work that led to their grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for the CAPTURE Falls project. Jones KJ, Venema DM, Nailon R, Skinner AM, High […]

Sep 15, 2014

Physical Therapy student presents research at annual meeting

Physical Therapy Education student, Yanlong Li (PT-2), presented some of his work at the 29th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation held in Denver, CO. Yanlong is part of the Shanghai Sino-US Health Science Initiative.

Sep 10, 2014

Free Oct. 11 health, wellness event to feature new views on exercise, physiology

Features best-selling author and former investigative journalist David Epstein The Nebraska Physiological Society invites the public to attend a free health event on Oct. 11 including a talk by best-selling author and former Sports Illustrated investigative journalist, David Epstein. The event will be held in the Durham Research Center at the University of Nebraska Medical […]

Sep 9, 2014

Nicki’s a grandma!

Nicki Simmons, SAHP staff, is a proud grandmother, proclaiming, “She is absolutely the most perfect little baby!” 🙂 Harper Rose Jourdan was born at 3:09 p.m. on September 4, 2014. She weighed 6 pounds 13 ounces and was 20 inches long. Congratulations, Nicki! She’s a cutie.

Sep 8, 2014

New faculty in PA will be lead faculty in Kearney PA expansion

Sheila Fleer, MPAS, PA-C, is a new assistant professor in our physician assistant program. She’ll be on-campus in Omaha for about a year as full faculty, and then will return to Kearney to be the lead faculty member for the new PA Program expansion there. Here, in her own words, is a little more about […]

Aug 29, 2014

Hoffman appointed as AAPA liaison

Erin J. Hoffman MPAS, PA-C, was appointed to serve for two years as the American Academy of Physician Assistant’s medical liaison to the American Academy of Pediatrics. The ultimate goal of the medical liaisons is to elevate the PA profession and the strategic relationships of AAPA with national physician and medical organizations and to improve […]

Aug 25, 2014