The Healing Arts Program is presenting a free reading over the lunch hour on Thursday, Oct. 4, featuring UNMC’s Lydia Kang, M.D., and Byers “Bud” Shaw, M.D.
Drs. Kang and Shaw will read from their published work at noon at the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center lobby in a presentation sponsored by the Healing Arts Program and the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s College of Communication, Fine Arts and Media Writer’s Workshop.
Dr. Kang, an assistant professor in the UNMC Department of Internal Medicine, is an author of young adult fiction, adult fiction and non-fiction, and poetry. She graduated from Columbia University and New York University School of Medicine, completing her residency and chief residency at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. She is a practicing internal medicine physician at Nebraska Medicine.
Her poetry and non-fiction have been published in “JAMA,” “The Annals of Internal Medicine,” “Canadian Medical Association Journal,” “Journal of General Internal Medicine,” and “Great Weather for Media.” Her novels include the newly released historical mystery, “The Impossible Girl,” and the upcoming young adult novel, “Toxic.” She also is the co-author of a humorous history of medicine book entitled “Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything,” with Nate Pedersen.
Dr. Shaw, professor in the UNMC Department of Surgery, received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry at Kenyon College and his M.D. from Case Western Reserve University, completed general surgery training in Utah, and a transplant surgery fellowship in Pittsburgh under the direction of Tom Starzl, the father of liver transplantation. After two additional years in Pittsburgh on the surgery faculty, Dr. Shaw moved to Omaha in 1985 to start the solid organ transplant program at UNMC. Starting in 1997, he served 12 years as chairman of the UNMC Department of Surgery.
Dr. Shaw attended the Kenyon Review workshop in 2007 and was one of the original participants in Steve Langan’s Seven Doctors Project in 2008. In 2011, Susan Orlean chose his essay, “My Night With Ellen Hutchinson,” as the winner of a national writing contest hosted by Creative Nonfiction. The essay received special mention among the 2013 Pushcart Prize entries. His first book, “Last Night in the OR: A Transplant Surgeon’s Odyssey,” was released by the Plume imprint of Penguin Random House in 2015.