Ebola and emergency preparedness expert Sharon Medcalf will speak in Kearney about the symptoms, treatment, origins and transmission of Ebola, Nebraska’s biocontainment unit and more.
Medcalf, assistant professor in the UNMC College of Public Health, will present “An Overview of Ebola” at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 19, at Cunningham’s Journal, 15 W. 23rd St., Kearney.
The talk is presented as a Science Cafe program through the Sigma Xi Chapter at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. It is free and open to the public.
Medcalf is co-director of the Center for Biosecurity, Biopreparedness and Emerging Infectious Diseases at UNMC, which houses the Center for Preparedness Education, a state and regional training center for emergency preparedness and response.
Medcalf has 15 years of acute care nursing experience that includes being a member of an air and ground transport emergency team. Her research interests are in hospital preparedness, community medical surgery, and smallpox vaccination of laboratory workers.
Medcalf also is UNMC’s program director for the master of science program in emergency preparedness, the first graduate program in the region with a focus on public health and medical response to a disaster.
In addition to the UNK Chapter of Sigma Xi, the cafe is sponsored by The Scientific Research Society, a non-profit membership society of scientists and engineers whose research spans the spectrum of science and technology.