{"id":2921,"date":"2019-09-16T08:46:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T13:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2026-02-04T16:49:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:49:33","slug":"strong-smart-and-bold-unmc-id-faculty-empower-young-women-at-girls-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/2019\/09\/16\/strong-smart-and-bold-unmc-id-faculty-empower-young-women-at-girls-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong, Smart, and Bold: UNMC ID Faculty Empower Young Women at Girls, Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/08\/IMG_2898-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Caitlin Murphy presents to girls at Girls, Inc. Omaha.\" class=\"wp-image-2933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/08\/IMG_2898-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/08\/IMG_2898-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/08\/IMG_2898-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/08\/IMG_2898-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/08\/IMG_2898-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/08\/IMG_2898-120x90.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Strep, pneumonia, microbiome, oh my! ID physicians Dr. Alison Freifeld, Dr. Andrea Zimmer, and Dr. Erica Stohs and Dr. Caitlin Murphy, Assistant Director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, recently brought the world of infectious disease medicine to young women at Girls Inc. Omaha.&nbsp; Girls learned about common infections and the bugs that cause them, the bacteria that inhabits the world around them, and careers in microbiology and infectious disease.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image wp-image-2926\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/08\/DSCN6582-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Andrea Zimmer shows girls cultures grown from dirty and clean hands and household locations\" class=\"wp-image-2926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/08\/DSCN6582-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/08\/DSCN6582-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/08\/DSCN6582-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/08\/DSCN6582-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/08\/DSCN6582-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/08\/DSCN6582-120x90.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This event is one of many connections between UNMC and Girls Inc., a national nonprofit dedicated to \u201cinspiring girls to be \u2018strong, smart, and bold.\u2019\u201d&nbsp; Dr. Freifeld started working with the <a href=\"https:\/\/girlsincomaha.org\/\">Omaha chapter<\/a> when she came to UNMC almost 20 years ago, when the chapter operated out of a church basement.&nbsp; Since then, Girls, Inc. Omaha has grown to two dedicated locations that provide after-school enrichment activities, homework help, mentorship, and career advising to girls across the city.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image wp-image-2923\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/08\/IMG_0256-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Alison Freifeld is excited to talk to the girls about oral flora!\" class=\"wp-image-2923\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/08\/IMG_0256-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/08\/IMG_0256-1130x1536.jpg 1130w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/08\/IMG_0256-1506x2048.jpg 1506w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/08\/IMG_0256-768x1044.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/08\/IMG_0256-753x1024.jpg 753w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/08\/IMG_0256-120x163.jpg 120w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/08\/IMG_0256-scaled.jpg 1883w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">In 2016, Dr. Freifeld was instrumental in forging a partnership between UNMC\/Nebraska Medicine and Gi<\/span><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">rls, Inc. to open a primary care clinic at one of the chapters. The clinic is open after school and provides annual physicals, longitudinal care, well woman visits, reproductive health education, and urgent care.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a student, I am both impressed and excited by the community outreach and impact of our physicians.&nbsp; I\u2019m proud to be at an institution with such compassionate, innovative, and altruistic clinicians, and I am hopeful, seeing their examples, that my future career can include meaningful service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<form name=\"s2form\" method=\"post\" action=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/subscribe2\/\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ip\" value=\"216.73.216.108\" \/><span style=\"display:none !important\"><label for=\"firstname\">Leave This Blank:<\/label><input type=\"text\" id=\"firstname\" name=\"firstname\" \/><label for=\"lastname\">Leave This Blank Too:<\/label><input type=\"text\" id=\"lastname\" name=\"lastname\" \/><label for=\"uri\">Do Not Change This:<\/label><input type=\"text\" id=\"uri\" name=\"uri\" value=\"http:\/\/\" \/><\/span><p><label for=\"s2email\">Your email:<\/label><br><input type=\"email\" name=\"email\" id=\"s2email\" value=\"Enter email address...\" size=\"20\" onfocus=\"if (this.value === 'Enter email address...') {this.value = '';}\" onblur=\"if (this.value === '') {this.value = 'Enter email address...';}\" \/><\/p><p><input type=\"submit\" name=\"subscribe\" value=\"Subscribe\" \/>&nbsp;<input type=\"submit\" name=\"unsubscribe\" value=\"Unsubscribe\" \/><\/p><\/form>\r\n\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strep, pneumonia, microbiome, oh my! 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