Four medical students recently joined UNMC’s Audrey Paulman, M.D., and her husband, Paul Paulman, M.D., for a dinner with Gov. Dave Heineman and his wife, Sally Ganem, at the Governor’s Mansion in Lincoln.
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Gov. Dave Heineman and his wife Sally Ganem, top row left, recently had dinner guests from the medical center. Next to Heineman and Ganem are UNMC medical students, from left, Tyler Ketterel, Kendra Simpson, Rob Dahlquist and John “Mac” Longo. In the front row from left, are UNMC’s Jayme Nekuda, Ph.D., Keith Swarts, Audrey Paulman, M.D., and Paul Paulman, M.D., who also attended the dinner. |
The students were:
- Tyler Ketterel;
- Kendra Simpson;
- Rob Dahlquist; and
- John “Mac” Longo.
They invited the students as a gesture of gratitude for their great efforts at UNMC’s student-run SHARING Clinics. The Paulmans also invited Keith Swarts, UNMC’s director of business services, and his wife, Jayme Nekuda, Ph.D.,director of the employee benefits and work-life programs division, for the couple’s support of the clinics.
“I really wish we could have brought more students to say thanks for all they do at the SHARING Clinics,” Dr. Audrey Paulman said. “Unfortunately we could only bring four but we would have brought more if we could.”
The dinner with Nebraska’s first couple proved to be an amazing experience, Longo said.
“I enjoyed listening to the governor and the first lady share both the highlights and hardships of their time in the Governor’s Mansion and was surprised by how interested they were in learning about my experience as a medical student at UNMC,” he said. “They were warm and inviting, reflecting what is so great about Nebraskans.
“And like true Nebraskans, they served great beef for dinner!”