Month: May 2016

Family Medicine welcomes new Deputy Director of AHEC Program

Nicole Carritt, MPH, joins the Department of Family Medicine as the Deputy Director and Program Manager of the Nebraska Area Health Education Center program. Nicole has a Bachelor’s Degree in Exercise Science from Wayne State College and earned her Master’s in Public Health from UNMC. Professionally, Nicole spent five years leading a local public health […]

May 31, 2016

Dr. Jones Named Medical Director at Girls Inc. Clinic

Department of Family Medicine Assistant Professor, Andrea Jones, MD, will be taking on a new role as the medical director and physician contact at the Girls Inc. Katherine Fletcher Center, which includes a Nebraska Medicine clinic. The clinic will provide services to girls who are 5-18 years of age and will focus on immediate care, physicals […]

May 24, 2016

Smoking Cessation in Clinical Practice

Andrew Ensz, a fourth-year medical student, presented ‘Smoking Cessation in Clinical Practice’ as part of a Family Medicine senior selective course on nicotine addiction. Ensz focused on the “five A’s” of smoking cessation and how he will work it into his practice. “For my final year of medical school, I choose selectives that focus on […]

May 20, 2016

Office Associates Complete Foundations for Success

Department of Family Medicine Office Associates Frauke Wilcox and Sarah Frink are recent graduates of the 2016 ‘Foundations for Success’ program hosted by UNMC. ‘Foundations for Success’ is a career development and networking series for Office/Service staff of the University of Nebraska Medical Center. The goal of the series is to strengthen employees’ skills foundation so that […]

May 17, 2016

Family Medicine manual published in Romanian

The Taylor’s Differential Diagnostic Manual has made it’s way to a central European country known for the region of Transylvania. The manual, edited by Department of Family Medicine faculty Paul Paulman, MD; Audrey Paulman, MD, MMM; Jeff Harrison, MD; and Kimberly Jarzynka, MD along with Laeth Nasir, MD, is available in Romanian under the name Taylor […]

May 12, 2016