Tag: #UNMCID

Interested in Common Infections in the Elderly? Listen and Learn at UNMC!

Common Infections in the Elderly July 13, 2017 Location: UNMC Eppley Science Hall – Amphitheater In this presentation, Dr. Muhammad Salman Ashraf, Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine – Infectious Diseases, will discuss why older adults are at increased risk of infections. He will also identify common infections in the elderly and present management issues […]

Jul 12, 2017

HIV prevention – Are you PrEPared?

HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is the strategy of administering antiretrovirals to HIV uninfected, at-risk individuals in order to prevent HIV infection. Tenofovir-emtricitabine (Truvada) was approved for HIV PrEP by the FDA in 2012 and is over 90% effective in preventing HIV infection when taken as directed. UNMC’s HIV clinic has been offering HIV PrEP for […]

Jul 6, 2017

Graduation and Congratulations to Dr. Majorant!

As June comes to a close, we are celebrating the graduation of Dr. Majorant from our Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program.  We wish are all the best as she goes forward into her new position at Providence Medford Medical Center in Oregon! Congratulations Dr. Majorant! Photograph courtesy of Dr. Rupp. 

Jun 22, 2017

Infectious Diseases Fellow Research Presentation

Research is critical to the advancement of medicine and we continue to encourage our fellows to be active in research, both now and in their future careers, and present those results through publications and presentations. At the end of May, Dr. Majorant presented posters on two of her research projects, listed below,  at the UNMC […]

Jun 21, 2017

Dr. Guzman – UNMC ID Fellowship Graduate – on “Why UNMC ID?”

Dr. Luis Guzman on “Why I Love ID” and “Why UNMC ID?” Infectious Diseases keeps  many clinical skills in practice. Any single detail of patient’s life could be crucial to discovering the diagnosis.  Some of the most challenging diagnoses are infectious diseases. There is always a bug to catch and learn about, therefore visits to the […]

May 29, 2017

Dr. Hankins on “Why UNMC ID?”

Dr. Hankins on “Why UNMC ID”   When I started residency I had no idea what I wanted to do afterwards.  Soon I realized as an intern that every patient I saw in which we were treating for an infection, suddenly became the patients I was most interested in.  I was amazed at how quickly patient’s […]

May 15, 2017

ID Journal Club on HPV Vaccination

What Are You Reading?     At the last Infectious Diseases Journal Club, I reviewed “Quadrivalent HPV Vaccination and the Risk of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes”, a comprehensive review published in the March 30th, 2017 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine that examined adverse pregnancy outcomes between women who received the quadrivalent HPV vaccine during pregnancy and […]

May 12, 2017

Infection Prevention and Healthcare Associated Infections

It is difficult to overstate the importance of healthcare associated infections (HAI).  Approximately 4% of patients who enter hospitals in the United States develop an infection related to their hospital care.  Although 4% may not sound like a big number, when you multiply 4% by the tens of millions of admissions to U.S. hospitals, it […]

May 8, 2017

Let’s Talk About…HIV and Stigma

Recently, Nikki Regan, APRN at the Nebraska Medicine Specialty Care Clinic, was a guest speaker for the Healthy Lifestyles curriculum at her alma mater, Ridge View Middle School (formerly Schaller-Crestland), in Early, IA. Regan led a discussion about HIV and stigma for a group of approximately sixty (very curious) 8th graders. They talked about HIV […]

May 4, 2017

Infectious Diseases’ Medical Students Win Recognition for Research Projects

Two medical students working with UNMC ID Division faculty were recognized by the Department of Internal Medicine for excellence and will receive the 2017 Medical Student Research Award at Grand Rounds on June 2. Jordan Broekhuis, a fourth year student working with Dr. Sara Bares in the HIV Enhanced Medical Education Track (EMET), conducted a survey […]

Apr 28, 2017