Newest regent tours UNMC









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A group of seven UNMC students met with Regent Tim Clare to tell him about the work being done by the SHARING Clinics run by UNMC students. The group included, from left, Kendra Lesiak, Evan Wearne, Natalie Stavas, Julie Lanning, Regent Tim Clare, Tyler Ketterl, Kevin Masek and Branden Nemecek.

Regent Tim Clare toured UNMC on Thursday afternoon. The Lincoln attorney is the newest member of the University of Nebraska Board of Regents having been elected in 2008.

During his visit, Clare met with UNMC’s top administrators as well as Glenn Fosdick, president and CEO of The Nebraska Medical Center. He also heard presentations on UNMC’s international programs, its regenerative medicine initiative, its use of personalized medicine in treating patients and new developments in radiation oncology.

He wound up his tour by meeting with seven students involved in UNMC’s SHARING Clinics, which provide low-cost care to underserved people. SHARING stands for Student Health Alliance Reaching Indigent Needy Groups.

The students were joined by Audrey Paulman, M.D., and Paul Paulman, M.D., two UNMC family medicine physicians who are actively involved in the SHARING Clinics.

After hearing the students’ excitement with the SHARING Clinics, Clare said, “The thing that’s impressive about the medical center is — as Hal Maurer (UNMC chancellor) says — that it has a 500-mile wide campus.”

He encouraged the students to take every opportunity they can to reach out to communities across Nebraska.