In celebration of the College of Medicine’s 125th anniversary, UNMC Today is publishing a daily historial question and inviting UNMC employees to send their answers to today@unmc.edu.
The first person to respond correctly will win a free, gray T-shirt commemorating the College of Medicine’s 125th anniversary. There will be no repeat winners. Answers will be published the following day, along with the next question. Winners will be contacted by UNMC Public Affairs, as well as announced in UNMC Today.
The series ends June 14, when the campus community is invited to a free carnival to celebrate the College of Medicine’s anniversary. The carnival — complete with cotton candy, games and prizes — will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Swanson Courtyard (west of the Durham Outpatient Center). Carnival goers will be treated to a jazz band, jugglers and clowns. T-shirts also will be available for purchase.
Congrats to Dorothea Clute, Dorothea Clute, graduate student, College of Nursing in the Family Nurse Practitioner program, for correctly answering:
Question 2 –What former faculty member and dean was trained by Harvey Cushing?
Answer — Dr. J. Jay Keegan, a highly regarded Omaha neurosurgeon, was dean of the college from 1925 to 1929. He studied under Harvey Cushing, the pioneer neurosurgeon who had moved to the Peter Bent Brigham hospital in Boston after developing the specialty at Johns Hopkins. After his three-year fellowship with Dr. Cushing in Boston, Dr. Keegan returned to Omaha in 1920 to start his practice in neurosurgery.
Here is the next question — good luck!
Question 3 –What faculty member at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine was mentioned in Osler’s famous 1902 textbook?