Category: NBU
Travels, Bones and Bugs, Oh My! ID fellows will see it all at UNMC
At UNMC ID we are fortunate to have some very unique experiences for fellows to explore their interests in our various aspects of our specialty. We are also fortunate to have experts and leaders at the helm, leading fellows through these experiences toward their ultimate career choices. One of these leaders is Dr. Angela Hewlett […]
Aug 22, 2018
Going Global for Biopreparedness – International Workshop on High-Level Isolation
Preparedness for outbreaks of infectious diseases is a critical, global issue, and several physicians from the UNMC Division of Infectious Diseases and other team members from the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit organized and participated in the International Workshop on High-Level Isolation in late April The conference, which was held at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), […]
May 1, 2018
Nebraska Medicine to Host Emerging Infectious Disease Preparedness Workshop March 27-28
Nebraska Medicine has been home to one of the few Biocontainment Units in the country, and was one of three selected to care for citizens affected by the Ebola outbreak. Dr. Angela Hewlett, one of our own UNMC Infectious Disease Physicians, is the Medical Director of the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit (NBU) and Associate Medical […]
Mar 26, 2018
Practice Makes Perfect – Drills with the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit
The Nebraska Biocontainment Unit (NBU) is one of ten Regional Ebola and other Special Pathogen Treatment Centers (RESPTC) in the United States that has the capacity to care for patients with a highly hazardous communicable disease. As part of ongoing preparedness efforts the NBU coordinated a 2 day exercise on October 12 & 13, 2017 […]
Nov 3, 2017
Global Efforts in Education in Lagos
Education is critical in prevent of infection and UNMC and Nebraska Medicine continue their global efforts. A team recently traveled to Lagos, Nigeria – a city of 20 million people for such a purpose. They visited the 68 Nigerian Army Reference Hospital, Yaba in Lagos with two days of workshops/education with various leaders and clinical […]
Oct 30, 2017
National Ebola Training and Education Center – NETEC – The Education Continues!
Over 125 hospital leaders from all over the U.S. were on the UNMC campus today for the National Ebola Training and Education Center (NETEC) Emerging Infectious Diseases Preparedness training course. Learn more about NETEC here: http://netec.org/
Mar 21, 2017
Some days, you never know WHAT you will need to wear to work here! From Ebola to MERS and other new or emerging infectious diseases, we are ready! Drs. Smith and Hewlett geared up in the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit Learn more about the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit here : http://www.nebraskamed.com/biocontainment-unit
Mar 13, 2017
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