University of Nebraska Medical Center Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D., will speak Dec. 6 at a Rotary luncheon at the Riverside Golf Club, 2820 Riverside Drive in Grand Island.
During the Rotary meeting, Dr. Gold will provide updates about UNMC and Nebraska Medicine. Dr. Gold was invited to speak at the Rotary by Will Armstrong, a UNMC Board of Counselor member from Grand Island. The Board of Counselors is a group of more than 76 community and business leaders from across the state that advises Dr. Gold on health care issues of importance.
Dr. Gold will talk about the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, due to open in the spring of 2017, and the Interprofessional Experiential Center for Enduring Learning (iEXCELSM) which is due to open in 2018. Through iEXCELSM, a state-of-the-art education center, learners will acquire knowledge, and learn and practice professional skills before encountering real-life patient care situations.
Later he will meet with staff of the Nebraska Medicine Internal Medical Associates clinic in Grand Island along with Nebraska State Senator-elect Dan Quick of District 35, Grand Island. On July 1 this year, the Internal Medical Associates clinic in Grand Island became part of Nebraska Medicine, UNMC’s hospital partner. It includes seven internal medicine physicians, two rheumatologists, three nurse practitioners and a physician assistant.
Two new facilities opened recently on the UNMC/Nebraska Medicine campus in Omaha. In August, the UNMC Center for Drug Discovery and Lozier Center for Pharmacy Sciences opened. It supports the UNMC College of Pharmacy educational and research missions. In November, the Lauritzen Outpatient Center & Fritch Surgery Center opened. It houses operating rooms, outpatient clinics, orthopaedic surgery research laboratories and educational space and a center for telemedicine to provide a hub for teaching and outcomes research related to telemedicine and its role in health care.
UNMC programs span the state in an effort to reduce rural health shortages and improve the health of Nebraskans.
In Grand Island, through the UNMC Rural Training Track program, local health professionals train family medicine residents. In addition, as part of their training, UNMC internal medicine residents and students work and learn in Grand Island under the supervision of local health professionals. UNMC Munroe-Meyer Institute for Genetics and Rehabilitation has staff in Grand Island who collaborate with local health professionals and provide care to those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
In another effort to attract and retain more health professionals in rural areas, UNMC and the University of Nebraska at Kearney established the Health Science Education Complex which opened in 2015. The complex made it possible for UNMC to offer graduate nursing programs and expand its bachelor’s degree programs. It also made it possible to establish allied health professions programs for the first time outside of Omaha. Those professions include physician assistant, physical therapist, clinical laboratory scientist, radiographer and diagnostic medical sonographer.
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