University of Nebraska Medical Center

The University of Nebraska Medical Center, as Nebraska’s only public health science center, educates and trains the health care professionals who are taking care of Nebraska. In addition to this critical education mission, the research conducted at UNMC is helping those who have cancer, heart disease, Parkinson’s, Alzheimers and more. The goal of the University of Nebraska Medical Center is to be world class. When that day comes we will be able to write this story’s last chapter: and they all lived happily ever after.


 
 

Second UNMC deployment team returns to Omaha

The University of Nebraska Medical Center’s second Haiti deployment team returned to Omaha this week after spending nine days treating the injured from the Jan. 12 earthquake.

Among notable reports is that of a 16-year-old Haitian girl who will receive treatment of a life-threatening mouth tumor thanks to a UNMC team member.

Posted by: Chris Cooper in Front Page, Haiti, UNMC on February 22nd, 2010 Comments: 0 Read More

Second UNMC team heads to Haiti

The second deployment of health care volunteers from UNMC and the Nebraska Medical Center will depart for Haiti Feb. 11 or 12. The group is leaving just two weeks after the first group returned from Haiti. Those 13 volunteers spent a week assisting Haitians wounded in the massive Jan. 12 earthquake that rocked the country.

The volunteers – eight nurses, two physicians, one pharmacist and one physician assistant – are expected to leave for Haiti on Thursday on board University of Miami/MediShare Haiti flights.

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Posted by: Chris Cooper in Front Page, Haiti, UNMC on February 10th, 2010 Comments: 0 Read More

UNMC volunteers are on the ground in Haiti

UNMC Volunteers in HaitiThirteen volunteers from the University of Nebraska Medical Center are busy treating the wounded in Haiti as part of the recovery effort following the massive earthquake that struck the Caribbean nation Jan. 12

One group of volunteer doctors and nurses landed in Port-au-Prince Jan. 24 and went directly to work in a community hospital and a private clinic. The second group landed Jan. 25 and immediately was ushered to the Project MediShare field hospital at the main airport.

Posted by: Chris Cooper in Front Page, Haiti, UNMC on January 28th, 2010 Comments: 0 Read More

Small town girl plans to become small town doctor

“With family medicine you get to know the whole family. I enjoy seeing the patients and developing a relationship with them…Learning all aspects of their health as compared to just seeing them one time for one problem.” Without a scholarship Natalie would have to rely more on her parents than she would like. If she had been offered scholarships elsewhere and none at UNMC, Natalie would still be at Nebraska due to its emphasis on primary care and rural medicine.

Posted by: Chris Cooper in Campaign Update, UNMC on January 22nd, 2010 Comments: 0 Read More

UNMC Haitian Relief Fund

Haiti ReliefThe University of Nebraska Medical Center is putting together a team of health care providers to go to Haiti to provide relief. UNMC will assemble a professional team that could either join a statewide group or work in collaboration with the U.S. State Department. Dr. Rubens Pamies, a UNMC vice chancellor, is from Haiti. He and his wife, who have both lost family members, will be leading the UNMC team, which is expected to include about 20 people.

Posted by: Chris Cooper in Front Page, Haiti, UNMC on January 17th, 2010 Comments: 0 Read More

Ice Rink is part of the student plaza at UNMC

Longtime university supporters Ruth and Bill Scott of Omaha certainly had fun with this gift! In addition to support for UNMC's state-of-the-art medical education building, the couple also provided funds for a student ice rink, which opens today in Omaha.

Posted by: Lindsey Horner in Campaign Update, UNMC, Media on December 4th, 2009 Comments: 0 Read More

Big Splash a Big Success

If you missed this year’s Big Splash event and you would like to see just a small bit of what made the Big Splash so special – the people - please view the slideshow.

Posted by: Chris Cooper in UNMC on September 24th, 2009 Comments: 0 Read More

Big Splash brings swimmers of all abilities together

Big Splash“Big Splash” is the first recreational and competitive swimming fundraiser that will bring swimmers of all abilities together to support the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Munroe-Meyer Institute (MMI). The two-day event will take place Aug. 28 and 29 throughout Omaha and in Lincoln.

Posted by: Chris Cooper in UNMC on July 30th, 2009 Comments: 0 Read More

‘Inoperable’ cancer operable in Nebraska

Ruth GerdesUnsatisfied with a diagnosis that would have meant waiting for the slow-growing carcinoid cancer tumors on her liver to take her life, she turned to The Nebraska Medical Center, the teaching hospital of the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Posted by: Lindsey Horner in cancer, UNMC, Media on July 15th, 2009 Comments: 1 Read More

Couple’s gift helps scientists battle modern disease by examining the past

Through a gift to the University of Nebraska Foundation, Dr. Davis and his wife, Jean, established the Richard B. Davis, M.D., Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine McGoogan Library History of Medicine Lectureship. The annual event will bring national experts to UNMC to discuss the history of various scientific findings.

Posted by: Lindsey Horner in UNMC, Media on May 21st, 2009 Comments: 0 Read More