{"id":108637,"date":"2024-03-04T01:56:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T07:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=108637"},"modified":"2024-03-01T15:33:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T21:33:37","slug":"uniformed-services-university-leadership-tours-unmc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2024\/03\/04\/uniformed-services-university-leadership-tours-unmc\/","title":{"rendered":"Uniformed Services University leadership tours UNMC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>UNMC recently welcomed leaders of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences to the Omaha campus for a look at the med center\u2019s biopreparedness capabilities and its federal collaborations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>USU is the nation\u2019s federal health professions academy, with military readiness as its top priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the guests were Jonathan Woodson, MD, USU president; Mark Kortepeter, MD, USU\u2019s vice president for research and a former epidemiology professor at the UNMC College of Public Health; Jeffrey Freeman, PhD, director of the National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health at USU; and Capt. 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He highlighted the med center\u2019s quarantine capacity, which was tested at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. 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