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Ask James O\u2019Dell, MD, about his career at UNMC, and the first thing he mentions is his mentor Michael Sorrell, MD<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ask David O\u2019Dell, MD, about his UNMC career, and 10 words in, he is telling you about LeeRoy Meyer, MD<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps it is the attention they paid to their mentors, and the obvious affection both still feel for them, that helped the O\u2019Dell brothers carve such impactful careers at UNMC themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both brothers have been so impactful, in fact, that on June 6, the UNMC Department of Internal Medicine will recognize Dr. James O\u2019Dell with its Lifetime Achievement Award in Research, and, in a separate ceremony, bestow upon Dr. David O\u2019Dell its Lifetime Achievement Award in Education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJim and Dave O\u2019Dell have had a remarkable, lasting, positive influence on the department of internal medicine, UNMC and the wider medical community,\u201d said Mark Rupp, MD, interim chair of the UNMC Department of Internal Medicine. \u201cBoth are very deserving of the special lifetime achievement recognition they are receiving. We\u2019ve been incredibly fortunate to have had both of them at UNMC, and I\u2019m pleased they have been able to realize their career aspirations in the UNMC Department of Internal Medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Congratulations and bravo to the O\u2019Dell brothers \u2013 they make us proud.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lifetime Achievement Research Award, which highlights the recipient\u2019s extensive scientific contributions at UNMC and nationally, has been given only four times. Past recipients are Stephen Rennard, MD (2020), Lynell Klassen, MD (2019), James Armitage, MD (2014), and Denham Harman, MD, PhD (2006).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lifetime Achievement Education Award has been given only once before, to Gerald \u201cJay\u201d Moore, MD, in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. James O\u2019Dell\u2019s research focus includes clinical trials in rheumatoid arthritis and gout, clinical trial design, predicting response to therapy in RA and value-based care for RA. He developed a large clinical research network, the Rheumatoid Arthritis Investigational Network, that specialized in investigator-initiated clinical trials. He has won numerous awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. David O\u2019Dell\u2019s educational resume includes multiple teaching awards, including the American College of Physicians\u2019 Mastership and Dr. Jane F. Desforges Distinguished Teaching awards. Dr. O\u2019Dell\u2019s teaching encompasses a broad scope, including the classroom, small group settings, the clinic exam room and the inpatient bedside; he also served as the clerkship director for internal medicine for 27 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After recognizing their mentors, the O\u2019Dells talked about one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJim has travelled the world, because he literally is one of the experts in the world in his area,\u201d David said. \u201cIn addition to being internationally known, he has written the guidelines on the national level on how to take care of rheumatoid arthritis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe come from a family of teachers, so it\u2019s no surprise that Dave has excelled in teaching,\u201d James said. \u201cHe was the first Educator Laureate Award winner at UNMC, and he was one of the first to have an \u2018orchard,\u2019 which is more than seven Golden Apples (teaching awards given by third- and fourth-year medical students). This means he can\u2019t win anymore, so others can have a chance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When they had no option, they did talk about themselves \u2013 a little.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After beginning his career in basic research, Jim discovered his passion was more directly connected to patients and moved into clinical research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy experience in the laboratory, doing experiments, getting the data together and finding an answer for something nobody else had looked into before, that was pretty cool. But to take that to the patient level… The disease that I’ve been mostly studying for my career is rheumatoid arthritis. Today we can do things for patients we’ve never been able to do before. If you get rheumatoid arthritis today, you should have essentially a normal life. The average expectancy for your ability to work after you got rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis in the early 1980s was five years. We were able to make that impact because of research we did, largely through the RAIN network \u2013 find treatment strategies and promote effective drugs therapies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt’s been quite a ride.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For David, medical education followed his move into medicine in what he sees as an organic evolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you really look at it, all physicians are teachers,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s important, to be able to explain to patients what\u2019s going on. Making the decision to teach medical students, that had a lot to do with finding where I could use the skills I was given.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBeing able to assess someone’s kidneys, their heart, their lungs and integrate all \u2013 being competent in a wide range \u2013 is critically important for this generalist education that we’re building in medical students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI took a leadership course once, and they said, \u2018You can motivate everyone for a while. But what you really want are people who are motivated internally.\u2019 And I hope I\u2019ve inspired that in my students.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David said he hopes his students remember him as a \u201creasonable\u201d role model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI hope that, as an educator, I\u2019ve taught that you convey compassion for your patients, that you are a critical thinker, that you are willing to discuss challenging topics, and that, recognizing when you don’t know what you don’t know, that you may not know the answer, but you try to find it. It all starts with making sure that you’re taking care of your patients. Even as an educator, you got to be in the trenches. And you are a lifelong student \u2013 you have to be rooted in current medical practice, or you’re not going to be relevant.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jim hopes that the researchers he\u2019s worked with and mentored choose to follow their passion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA lot of people in the research world, it can be difficult to get funded for your grants and to get your studies up and running. And of course, people talk about how difficult the times are now, and they are, but they’ve always been difficult. But at the end, if you aren’t following your passion, you’re not going to be very successful, and certainly you’re not going to be successful in your own mind. My passion has always been my patients. So, I’ve always tried to ask important questions from the patient’s perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s also incredibly important to build networks. Nobody’s going to do anything important in research, certainly clinical research, without networks. And networks are all about relationships, and relationships are really what makes the whole thing fun anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James O\u2019Dell, MD, will receive the UNMC Department of Internal Medicine\u2019s Lifetime Achievement Award for Research on June 6 at internal medicine\u2019s grand rounds at noon. Other awards will be bestowed, as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David O\u2019Dell, MD, will receive the UNMC Department of Internal Medicine\u2019s Lifetime Achievement Award for Education on June 6 at the internal medicine residency banquet at 6 p.m. at the Livestock Exchange Building. Other awards also will be bestowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maria Ball of UNMC Department of Internal Medicine communications contributed to this article.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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