UNMC Human Resources announced 19 retirements and two upcoming retirements from June through Oct. 3.
One recent retiree, Jane Potter, MD, internal medicine-geriatrics/palliative medicine, retired Sept. 1 following an exactly 43-year career at UNMC. (She started at the medical center on July 1, 1982.)
Upcoming retiree Rick Pruch of the UNMC Center for Healthy Living was at the medical center even a few days longer – he is set to retire on Oct. 1, after starting on Sept. 22, 1982.
Other recent retirees include:
- LuAnn Larson, clinical research center, retired Sept. 3 (start date Dec. 6, 1988)
- Lenny Burke, utilities, retired Aug. 8 (start date March 3, 1989)
- David Prochnau, utilities, retired July 9 (start date July 7, 1989)
- James Harper, MD, pediatrics-oncology/hematology, retired Sept. 10 (start date Sept. 1, 1991)
- Laura Bilek, PhD, physical therapy, retired June 30 (start date June 1, 1992)
- Matthew Egbert, MD, psychiatry, retired July 1 (start date March 1, 1994)
- Craig Piquette, MD, internal medicine-pulmonary, retired July 1 (start date May 1, 1994)
- Joyce Hurst, college of dentistry, retired July 11 (start date Jan. 27, 1997)
- Steven Sansom, PhD, cellular/integrative physiology, retired July 1 (start date July 1, 1997)
- Diane Hudson, college of nursing, retired Aug.2 (start date Jan. 1, 1998)
- Larisa Poluektova, MD, PhD, pharmacology and experimental neuroscience, retired July 2 (start date July 1, 2001)
- Brian Dykstra, utilities, retired July 31 (start date Sept. 5, 2006)
- Jody Sanford, college of dentistry, retired July 23 (start date Jan. 28, 2009)
- Teri Mauch, MD, pediatrics-nephrology, retired Sept. 1 (start date June 1, 2012)
- Molly Lang, college of allied health professions, retired June 27 (start date May 13, 2013)
- William Biddle, MD, internal medicine-cardiovascular medicine, retired July 1 (start date July 1, 2017)
- Christopher Maloney, MD, PhD, pediatrics-hospitalists, retired July 7 (start date Oct. 1, 2017)
- Kent Lovelace, DDS, college of dentistry, retired July 15 (start date Aug. 29, 2019)
The other upcoming retirement is:
- Lynne Jones, pathology, microbiology and immunology, will retire Oct. 3 (start date Nov. 25, 2003)
-John Keenan, UNMC strategic communications
ACS journals and discounted APC Agreement
The McGoogan Health Sciences Library has an agreement with the American Chemical Society to waive article development charges in its hybrid journals. This fee is required for depositing an accepted manuscript into a repository like PubMed Central without an embargo.
This agreement fulfills the requirement for NIH-funded articles. Additionally, for authors who wish to publish their article fully open access, a discount on the article processing charge is available.
The joint agreement was negotiated by the University of Nebraska Consortium of Libraries for all University of Nebraska authors. It is available for manuscripts accepted between Aug. 1, 2025, and Dec. 31, 2027.
The submitting and corresponding author must be the same. More details are available in the library’s Open Access Publishing Discounts online guide. Email questions to Heather Brown, scholarly communications librarian.
-McGoogan Health Sciences Library
Internal medicine volunteer event
The UNMC Department of Internal Medicine’s Office of Belonging and Community Engagement is hosting a campuswide food packaging event Nov. 20 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Truhlsen Event Center.
Volunteers are needed to package 20,000 meals for local food pantries, just in time to support families ahead of the holiday season. The event also will feature a food drive.
A total of 96 volunteers are needed; interested people can sign up for one-hour shifts. (Please list division, department or group in the comment box in the link below.)
Those interested can sign up here.
-Maria Ball, UNMC Department of Internal Medicine