UNMC Department of Pathology & Microbiology

08/27/2026

We're Hiring: Senior Program Coordinator, Graduate Medical Education (GME)

Join our Graduate Medical Education team and help support the success of future physicians. This impactful role serves as the primary coordinator for a residency program with 20+ house officers, providing administrative leadership, accreditation support, meeting and event coordination, travel management, report analysis, and budget oversight.

We're looking for a proactive, detail-oriented professional who can anticipate challenges, independently solve problems, and collaborate effectively with faculty, residents, and institutional partners.

Apply today: https://unmc.peopleadmin.com/postings/99943

08/03/2026

IPID doctoral student Mojisola Ogunnaike has successfully defended her dissertation, "Multi-mechanistic treatment approaches for hepatitis B and malaria." Congratulations, Dr. Ogunnaike!

07/31/2026

We wish Kirk Hansen all the best as he heads into retirement after 15 years here as Regional Pathology Services director. Top, Hansen, left, receives a service award from Dr. Aleh Bobr, RPS medical director. Below left, a retirement reception for him with friends and colleagues. Below right, Dr. Joseph Khoury, our department chair, with Hansen at the reception.

07/07/2026

This morning's meet and greet was a great way to say hello to our new residents and fellows.

05/22/2026

Dr. Peter Iwen and Emily McCutchen from the Nebraska Public Health Laboratory talk to Scientific American about their race to develop a hantavirus PCR test:

Researchers at the Nebraska Public Health Laboratory worked round the clock to develop a test for the Andes virus at the center of the deadly cruise ship outbreak

05/13/2026

The Grand Prize winner of UNMC Office of Global Engagement's sixth annual International Photo Contest, left, was taken by Ridhi Bhola, a PhD student in the IPID program hosted by our department. Learn more about the photo contest: https://go.unmc.edu/9874

Bhola also was among a number of IPID award recipients on Tuesday. Learn more about the graduate program awards: https://go.unmc.edu/by7c

05/12/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Peter Iwen, a professor in our department and director of the Nebraska Public Health Laboratory, who received an APHL Lifetime Achievement Award at the group's 2026 meeting in Baltimore. Dr. Sharon Massingale, left, APHL's president-elect and director of the Alabama Public Health Laboratory, presented the award to Dr. Iwen.

APHL said Dr. Iwen was honored "for advancing public health laboratories through leadership, standards development, workforce training, and emergency response innovation. His leadership during high-consequence events such as Ebola and COVID-19 exemplified the critical role of public health laboratories in translating science into actionable public health protection."

Dr. Iwen said: "I am honored to receive this award from APHL, and although I recognize this as an individual award, I accepted this on behalf of the current and prior staff at the Nebraska Public Health Laboratory."

04/27/2026

04/27/2026

Our Lab Week celebration closed out with a pizza party, basket raffle and Golden Beaker Award presentation on Friday and bowling on Sunday.

04/23/2026

Francis Fontanilla (shown with Dr. Rey Carabeo, advisor, and Dr. Amanda Brinkworth, co-advisor) has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, "Chlamydia trachomatis modulation of epithelial innate immunity." Congratulations, Dr. Fontanilla!