University of Nebraska Medical Center

University of Nebraska Medical Center
Established	1880
Type	Public
Chancellor	Dr. Harold M. Maurer
Students	3,237
Location	Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Website	http://www.unmc.edu/

The University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) is a public academic health sciences center located on 42nd and Emile Streets in Midtown Omaha, Nebraska. UNMC is the only public academic health science center in Nebraska.

Academics and rankings

Four UNMC colleges or programs were listed in the U.S. News & World Report’s ranking of America’s Best Graduate Schools 2009 including the College of Medicine’s primary care and rural health programs, which were both ranked in the top 20.^{[citation needed]} Nearly half of Nebraska’s physicians, dental professionals, pharmacists, bachelor-prepared nurses and allied health professionals have graduated from UNMC. UNMC opened the $52.7 million Michael F. Sorrell Center for Health Science Education in 2008. The Sorrell Center replaced obsolete facilities with technologically equipped classrooms and class laboratories, including clinical simulation rooms, interaction rooms, amphitheaters and a campus events center. Construction of the Sorrell Center was funded completely through private donations.

Looking west down Dewey Street on the campus.

In January 2007, UNMC added a College of Public Health to its academic enterprise. This College addresses a variety of issues facing Nebraska, including health promotion and disease prevention, environmental health and safety, health care delivery, and biosecurity and biopreparedness. In 2011, the Harold M. and Beverly Maurer Center for Public Health opened. This 52,500-square-foot (4,880 m²) facility will house the college.

Also slated for completion over the next few years are: 1) The Home Instead Center for Successful Aging. This two-level center will increase clinical and translational research by establishing an appropriate environment for conducting clinical trials for Alzheimer’s disease and other geriatric-specific disorders; 2) The Center for College of Nursing Sciences. The 43,000-square-foot (4,000 m²) building will enable the college to enroll more nursing students and prepare more nurse faculty; 3) the Stanley M. Truhlsen Eye Institute due to open in 2012.^[1][2]

UNMC's College of Medicine ranked 7th in the United States in Primary Care according to US News & World Report in 2011.^[3]

History

A private medical college was established in Omaha in 1880. Renamed the Omaha Medical College the following year, it became part of the University of Nebraska system in 1902. A university hospital opened in 1917. In 1968, the University of Nebraska decided to bring all of the health sciences under one umbrella and formed the University of Nebraska Medical Center campus. In 1991, a technology transfer office was created known as UNeMed. In 1997, the UNMC hospital merged with the nearby Clarkson Hospital to become what was later renamed The Nebraska Medical Center.

Colleges

• College of Medicine
• College of Dentistry - The dental college is located in Lincoln, Nebraska, on the East Campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
• College of Nursing
• College of Pharmacy
• College of Public Health
• School of Allied Health Professions

See also

• Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases

References

1. ^ Omaha World-Herald 2009-12-21 pp. 1-2.
2. ^ UNMC page
3. ^ [1]- US News and World Report

External links

• University of Nebraska Medical Center
• The Nebraska Medical Center
• UNeMed Corp. Web site

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Coordinates: 41°15′21.71″N 95°58′32.81″W / 41.2560306°N 95.9757806°W / 41.2560306; -95.9757806