Welcome event Monday for Al Fisher, M.D., Ph.D.

Al Fisher, M.D., Ph.D.

Al Fisher, M.D., Ph.D.

Al Fisher, M.D., Ph.D., has been named associate professor and chief of the UNMC Department of Internal Medicine’s Division of Geriatrics, Gerontology and Palliative Care Medicine.

On Monday, July 23, the division will hold a welcome event for Dr. Fisher from 3:30-5:30 p.m. in the Linder Reading Room on the second floor of the Sorrell Center.

Dr. Fisher succeeds Jane Potter, M.D., who served for 36 years as chief of the UNMC Division of Geriatrics. Dr. Potter will continue as director of the geriatric medicine fellowship program and as medical director of the Nebraska Medicine Geriatric Medicine Clinic.