Allied Health Blog
Help Fran fight extreme poverty
I’ve been living on $1.50 worth of food per day since Monday and will continue through Friday…by choice. 1.4 billion people currently live below the poverty line and don’t have a choice. In today’s world, extreme poverty and inequality are unjustifiable and unfair. Live Below the Line demonstrates the problem in a concrete way, while […]
May 9, 2012
Publication for cytotechnology
Amber Donnelly, program director for cytotechnology education, co-authored an article titled “Virtual microscopy in cytotechnology education: Application of knowledge from virtual to glass,” published in CytoJournal. Here’s a link to a pdf of the full article. Congratulations, Amber!
May 8, 2012
RSTE students at the TOPS of their game
Even though it was a busy week with Convocation and Graduation, four RSTE students had the time to make their weekly trip to Gretna to help their buddies at TOPS. TOPSoccer (The Outreach Program for Soccer) is a community-based training and team placement program for young athletes with disabilities, organized by youth soccer association volunteers. […]
May 8, 2012
Kudos in RSTE!
Molly Van Heek, Senior Radiography student was awarded the 2012 Bracco Outstanding Clinical Student Award. This award was voted on by technologists. Angela Griffith, The Nebraska Medical Center Diagnostic Radiographer, was awarded the 2012 Outstanding Clinical Educator Award. This award was voted on by the junior and senior students. Congratulations to Molly and Angela!
May 7, 2012
Sisters, roommates, cancer fighters
In case you missed the article this morning in UNMC Today about one of our Radiation Therapy students: They’re going to be roommates. True, Joanne (pronounced “Joanie”) Kaslon already lives with her big sister, Jenny Cich, and her husband, while Joanne studies at UNMC’s School of Allied Health Professions. But this time is different. Read […]
May 2, 2012
Graduate to be Featured on HGTV's "House Hunters"
Travis Anderson, a graduate of our clinical perfusion program, Class of 2011, and his wife Natalie, will be featured on HGTV’s “House Hunters.”
Apr 26, 2012
2012 SAHP Award Recipients
Teacher of the Year Stephane P. VanderMeulen, MPAS, PA-C Physician Assistant Education Program Outstanding Service to the SAHP James E. Somers, PA, PhD Physician Assistant Education Program Outstanding Researcher of the Year Kathleen G. Volkman, PT, MS, NCS Physical Therapy Education Program Congratulations! The awards will be presented on Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at the […]
Apr 25, 2012
More kudos in RSTE!
At the Chicago Area Radiation Therapists Annual Conference, Joanne Kaslon won first place in the essay competition with, “A comparison of Imaging Modalities in the Detection and Staging of Breast Cancer.” Congratulations, Joanne!
Apr 24, 2012
NSRT Conference Results
Radiation Science Technology Education students had a wonderful showing at this year’s NSRT Conference. Below is a report of their accomplishments. Faculty in attendance at the NSRT Conference were Tanya Custer, Christina Araujo, Tammy Jones, Connie Mitchell, Tonya Banzhaf & Kendra Becker. Student Bowl Champions – UNMC Team 2 Team members: Victor Duong, Alyssa Millington, […]
Apr 24, 2012
Congratulations, perfusion students!
Tim Loeffel (2nd year CPE student) and Courtney Petersen (1st year CPE student) were invited speakers at the Wisconsin Perfusion Society meeting held at the Wisconsin Dells, WI the weekend of April 20-22. They represented UNMC/SAHP/CPE proudly as they presented their research projects. Timothy Loeffel’s presentation was titled, “The Application of EP67 in Senescent Whole Blood and […]
Apr 24, 2012
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