Reception to celebrate Nancy Armitage Professorship

Nancy Armitage, left, and James Armitage, M.D.

Nancy Armitage, left, and James Armitage, M.D.

A reception will be held on Monday, Jan. 30 to celebrate the Nancy Armitage Pancreas Cancer Clinical Research Professorship. The event will be held from 5:30-7 p.m. in the Truhlsen Events Center in the Sorrell Center on the UNMC campus.

The UNMC community is invited to attend the event. Speakers will include:

  • UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D.
  • UNMC College of Medicine Dean Brad Britigan, M.D.
  • Julie Vose, M.D., Neumann M. and Mildred E. Harris Professorial Chair and chief of the oncology/hematology division in the UNMC Department of Internal Medicine
  • James Armitage, M.D., Joe Shapiro Professor of Medicine.

The professorship was established in 2016 by a group of former patients, longtime friends and UNMC colleagues. For more information, click here.

Gifts can be made to the professorship by visiting www.nufoundation.org/NancyArmitageProfessorship, by picking up a pledge card in the Oncology/Hematology offices, the Peggy Cowdery Patient Care Center, or by contacting Tom Thompson at (402) 502-4116.