Category: Infection Prevention and Control
Excitement Builds for SHEA Spring 2025: Meet the Presenters from Our Division
The SHEA Spring 2025 meeting promises to be a vibrant gathering of thought leaders in healthcare epidemiology and infection prevention. Held from April 26-30, 2025, in beautiful Championsgate, FL, the event will feature groundbreaking research, innovative practices, and insightful discussions. We’re thrilled to highlight the brilliant presenters from our division, each contributing to the advancement of healthcare practices:
Apr 25, 2025
Research Digest – Central Venous Catheter Infections
Research Digest is a periodic installment that recognizes the world-class clinical research performed right here at UNMC ID. Today, we review two recent articles highlighting prevention and identification of central venous catheter contamination or infection. As always, check out the linked full articles for more details. In vitro assessment of effect of initial specimen diversion […]
Feb 19, 2025
UNMC ID Recognizes National Influenza Vaccination Week
This week (December 2nd-6th, 2024) is National Influenza Vaccination Week. It is a time to spread awareness about, and celebrate, one of the most successful public health interventions. As the CDC notes: National Influenza Vaccination Week (NIVW) is a critical opportunity to remind everyone 6 months and older that there’s still time to protect […]
Dec 4, 2024
UNMC ID Recognizes National Immunization Awareness Month
As we close out August 2024, we want to take a moment as a Division to recognize National Immunization Awareness Month. Held every August, this observance gives healthcare professionals and the public a chance to highlight the incredible importance of vaccination and to encourage conversations with providers to ensure that all are up to date […]
Aug 28, 2024
UNMC ID Recognizes STI Awareness Week
This week is Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Awareness Week, a week set aside to educate and raise awareness about sexually transmitted infections, or STIs, and how they impact our lives. It is also a time to work towards reducing STI-related stigma, fear, and discrimination and a time to ensure people have the tools and knowledge for prevention, testing, and treatment.
Apr 17, 2024
UNMC ID Recognizes Patient Safety Awareness Week and our Biocontainment Unit Professionals
March 12th-18th marks patient safety awareness week, an initiative intended to encourage everyone to learn more about health care safety. Protecting patient safety is one of the most important responsibilities of the health care system and all its members. This week serves to recognize those who further patient safety and spark conversation on how we can continue to improve.
Mar 15, 2023
Canine or Cultures: An Alternative Method for Infection Diagnosis?
Sit. Stay. Roll over. Diagnose an infection? It seems that, in addition to being man’s best friend, dogs make pretty good infectious disease doctors. Or at least that’s the conclusion of two recent studies which trained dogs to identify UTIs or C. difficile infections in real patient samples. The results were impressive!
May 31, 2022
UNMC ID is Hiring! Seeking Medical Director Applicants
The Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, NE is recruiting an infectious diseases physician with interests or experience in infection prevention/healthcare epidemiology to serve as the Medical Director of the Infection Control Assessment and Promotion Program (ICAP). This is an exciting opportunity to lead, manage, and direct continued […]
May 24, 2022
Publication Alert: Leveraging a Preexisting Global Infectious Disease Network for Local Decision Making During a Pandemic
The content below was provided by Jocelyn Herstein, an assistant professor at UNMC and Director of International Partnerships and Programs with the National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center. She led a recently published study, collaborating with UNMC ID faculty Drs. Angela Hewlett and James Lawler. What prompted this study? Emerging infectious disease events require a […]
Apr 26, 2022
UNMC ID at #SHEASpring2022 – Where to Find Us!
The SHEA Spring conference starts tomorrow; here is your guide on where to find UNMC ID throughout the conference! Invited Training Course Workshop Lectures Tuesday, April 12th from 10:00am – 10:15am: SHEA/CDC Training Course in Healthcare Epidemiology as presented by our own Kari Simonsen. Tuesday, April 12th from 2:45pm-3:15pm: Case Studies in Pediatric Infection Control (panel […]
Apr 11, 2022
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