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Dr. Karl Kosloski Memorial Lecture Series

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Join us for the 2nd Annual Dr. Karl Kosloski Memorial Lecture Series on Caregiving.

Please use this link to register and receive parking and/or zoom information.


Friday, October 3, 2025 at 3:00pm, Thompson Alumni Center

Topic: Caring for the Caregiver-How Can the Arts and Humanities Help?

Steven Wengel, MD

Steven Wengel, MD - Dr.Wengel is originally from Omaha and received his bachelor's degree from UNL
and his MD from UNMC. He completed his psychiatry residency and geriatric psychiatry fellowship training at Creighton University and UNMC. He has been practicing geriatric psychiatry since 1991. He sees patients in his office and at several local long-termcare facilities in and around Omaha. He is an active and enthusiastic
teacher of students and residents. Dr.Wengel has also served UNMC in several administrative roles, including clerkship director and department chair. In 2018 he becameUNMC and UNO's first Assistant Vice Chancellor for Campus Wellness, and in this role he is developing strategies to reduce stress and burnout in students, staff, faculty and healthcare professionals. His vision is to improve the physical, psychological, and social wellbeing of all who work and learn in the health care world.


Friday, November 7, 2025 at 3:00pm, Thompson Alumni Center

Topic: Shared Emotions and Shared Health in Family Care Partners

Kuan-Hua Chen, MD

Kuan-Hua Chen, MD - Dr. Kuan-Hua Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurological Sciences at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa and completed postdoctoral training at the University of California, Berkeley, and UCSF. His research examines social and emotional processes in both normal and clinical aging. His current work investigates the emotional, behavioral, and physiological connectedness between people with dementia and their family caregivers, with a particular focus to how this connectedness changes over the course of dementia and
how these changes affect caregivers' health and well-being. Dr. Chen's research has been supported by the U.S. National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer's Association. He has authored over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles, and his work has been recognized with several prestigious awards and scholarships, including an Alzheimer Association Young Investigator Award and a National Institute on Aging IMPACT
scholarship.


Previous Speakers

2024:

Felipe A. Jain, MD – Director of Healthy Aging Studies in the Depression Clinical Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and faculty of the Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Health Sciences and Technology program. Psychotherapy mentor at the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion at the Cambridge Health Alliance.

Diane Hendricks, CMSW & LMHP – Clinical social worker at UNMC Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology; and contracted to the Alzheimer’s Association as an Educator.


Dr. Karl Kosloski

This lecture series is named in honor of Dr. Karl Kosloski.

The late Dr. Karl Kosloski was an emeritus professor and fellow of the Gerontological Society of America. He was a member of the Department of Gerontology faculty at UNO for 19 years until an illness led to his retirement at the age of 63.

Dr. Kosloski was an impressive scholar and colleague in the field of aging, especially on the topic of caregiving. He was the author of over 80 publications and over 100 presentations at scholarly conferences, including the Gerontological Society of America, the American Psychological Association, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and the American Society on Aging. Dr. Kosloski was on the editorial board of numerous top-tiered journals and served as a reviewer for countless others.

As a faculty member, Dr. Kosloski was highly regarded for his research skills having received the UNO Award for Distinguished Research and holding the Reynolds Professorship in the College of Public Affairs and Community Service as a faculty member.

Dr. Kosloski is survived by his wife, Donna, his daughter, Dr. Lisa Bilek, her husband Tony and their two children. This series is meant to honor his legacy and to continue his work and research in understanding the challenges and opportunities of caregiving.

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  • Looking for older caregivers for a research study.
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