Byers Shaw Jr., M.D., UNMC professor of surgery and chief of surgery at The Nebraska Medical Center, is the grand prize-winner in the fourth annual International Photography Contest, sponsored by UNMC International Studies and Programs.
Dr. Shaw’s prize-winning photo, titled “Kuna Woman,” shows a woman from Kuna Yala (San Blas Islands), a sovereign comarca of Panama located along the Caribbean coast. The woman is “wearing traditional garb, including the pipe, but not including the Dodge Ram head scarf,” Dr. Shaw said. The photo was taken in Kuna Yala (San Blas Islands), Panama.
Dr. Shaw also captured first-place in the faculty/staff category with his entry, “Kuna Family.” The photo, also taken in Kuna Yala (San Blas Islands) Panama, depicts a “grandmother wearing traditional garb.” 
The sailboat in the background is the main form of transportation in the comarca, Dr. Shaw said.
Joshua Black, a second-year UNMC College of Medicine student, took top honors in the student/resident category with his winning photo, “Jamaican Fisherman,” taken in Jamaica.
This year’s “Beyond Borders” photo contest yielded 47 entries, said Dan Teet of IS&P. All photo entries are available on the IS&P Web site at http://www.unmc.edu/isp.
Other 2004 winners are:
Faculty/Staff:
- First place — Byers Shaw Jr., M.D., “Kuna Family”
- Second place — Allen George, “Have Monkey Will Travel”
- Third place — Fenx Xie, M.D., “High Achievement”
Students/Residents:
- First place — Joshua Black, “Jamaican Fisherman”
- Second place — Vicki Bangert, physician assistant student, “Gateway to Machu Pichu”
- Third place — Vicki Bangert, “Spinning Wool”