University of Nebraska Medical Center

It can affect your movement, your sleep, your mood, cognition, independence, and really every aspect of daily life and every person's experience is so different.

Dr. Erin Smith of the University of Nebraska Medical Center joins us to talk about what patients should know, what questions they should be asking, and how we can move beyond simply treating symptoms to truly caring for the whole person.

Dr. Smith, I'm so excited

to have you here today on This is Parkinson's, our podcast.

You're the first movement disorder specialist to finally say yes to my conversation.

I guess we're making it happen.

Yes, and you are with, I want everyone to know, the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

I guess, where do I want to start? Probably with what seems to be the explosion of Parkinson's.

One of those things, if I could stay there and played for the giants for 10 years, would have loved it.

Yeah, but UNMC said, hey, Dr.

Rob, if you want your spot in medical school, you got to come back.

They were like, you probably ought to come back.

Welcome to the September 2026 Editor's Pick podcast for the American Journal of Transplantation.

I'm one of your hosts, Roslyn Mannin, transplant nephrologist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

And I'm joined as usual by my co-host, Dr. Alberto Sanchez-Fueyo, transplant hepatologist extraordinaire, Deputy Director of the Institute of Liver Studies at King's College, London.

And I appreciate him staying up late.

Yeah.

The woman who ran our trial is a PhD of physical therapy at University of Nebraska Medical Center.

And And she, one of the things that she talks about is, I mean, she's an incredible advocate for exercise, but she goes, you know, a lot of my women, they can't get to the gym.

They may not live near one.

Welcome to Let's Talk ID, a podcast from the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

I'm Dr. Kelly Cockett, an infectious disease and critical care physician from the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and I'm delighted to be co-hosting with my colleague, Dr. Nico Cortez-Penfield.

Hello, I'm Nico, and I'm also an infectious disease physician at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

My work focuses on musculoskeletal infections and OPAT.

Hey, and Kelly, remind me again, why are we on IDSA's podcast?

From an administrative problem-solving standpoint, it sounds like an absolute miracle.

It sounds like a miracle until you look closer at the human cost of that efficiency, which is exactly what J.P. Miller from the University of Nebraska Medical Center is presenting on.

Right.

Miller's work is crucial here.

The owner of that place is awesome.

And I think that UNMC would...

They know not to, after the Charlie Graham fiasco, don't want to, you know, encroach on places like us.

And that's very, very nice of them.

And she is the one, she is the one that's focused on leading their culture initiatives.

She has some great stories to share and On top of her regular job, she also is the very first president of the UNMC Staff Advisory Council that she helped to form.

And she's going to talk a bit about that as well.

Listen to the end because you are going to hear about the fried chicken theory, which is one to remember.

I mean

that's the short version of it

I love it that's awesome so then on top of that though this isn't the only thing you're doing because alongside this work you've also taken on the role of the you're the inaugural president of the UNMC staff advisory council so tell me more about that you sound like the kind of person that likes to be involved

I blame that on my mother My mother was, you know, she basically said, you know what? If you don't work, you don't eat.