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When Matthew Lunning, DO, was 19 years old and working as a clinical research assistant at his local Cancer Center in Mason City, Iowa, he needed guidance on how to assist the local oncologist in managing a patient enrolled in a clinical research study. So, he called the physician listed on the front page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That physician: James Armitage, MD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday night, Dr. Lunning, interim chief of the UNMC Division of Hematology and UNMC\u2019s assistant vice chancellor of clinical research, was named the inaugural recipient of the endowed James O. Armitage, MD, Chair in Hematological Malignancies at UNMC, which was created through the generosity of donors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo all those who donated to create the James O. Armitage, MD, Chair in Hematological Malignancies, your generosity is an investment in cancer care,\u201d Dr. Armitage said at the event Thursday. \u201cEndowed chairs are among the most powerful recruitment and retention tools that exist in academic medicine. This chair will make it possible to attract and keep a bright, ambitious, curious clinical scientist who will make important observations that lead to curing patients, saving lives. And that is exactly what Dr. Lunning is going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Dr. Lunning, the honor is humbling but also fitting. He has known Dr. Armitage for more than 25 years and cites him as the main factor in his decision to pursue a residency at UNMC after graduating from Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And he still recalls that first phone call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were talking about the patient,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd when we were finished, Dr. Armitage began asking about me \u2013 my aspirations my dreams and how I planned to get there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Armitage\u2019s sincere interest left an indelible mark, Dr. Lunning said. Enough so that when it was time to begin applying to residencies, he specifically applied to UNMC\u2019s Internal Medicine residency program \u201cin the hope of working with Dr. Armitage\u201d \u2013 a physician-scientist whom Joann Sweasy, PhD, director of the National Cancer Institute-designated Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center said \u201chas played a foundational role in bringing clinical research to the forefront of patient care\u201d during his four-decade career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The residency went so well, Dr. Lunning said, that when it was time to leave UNMC for a fellowship, he met with Dr. Armitage and then-chair of internal medicine Lynell Klassen, MD, to \u201cspecifically plan to go to a fellowship that would provide me the best opportunity to come back to UNMC to work with Dr. Armitage again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hematology\/oncology fellowship was at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, where he eventually became the inaugural chief hematology fellow. But when it was complete, he returned to UNMC to work with Dr. Armitage and to be there as the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center rose on the medical center campus.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Lunning called the chair a great honor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have been striving to get to a point in my career where I was worthy of such a chair. And while I feel my career is not complete, this appointment is a springboard, not a step, to a future that will not only help solidify the program, but I hope to take it to another level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The personal touch, the unsolicited interest in other people \u2013 his patients and peers, certainly, but even a \u201csmall-town Iowa boy\u201d with medical dreams \u2013 is part of what makes Dr. Armitage not merely a health care and research icon, but the kind of man any young doctor might want to emulate, Dr. Lunning said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs I\u2019ve gotten to know Jim, the way he engages people \u2013 whether people he knows well or people he meets only in passing \u2013 it\u2019s like he\u2019s a soft-spoken ambassador to finding joy in every part of your day. I\u2019ve always tried to become a physician who could be mentioned in the same breath as him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is grateful for the chair, he said, not only for the link to Dr. Armitage, but for the impact it will allow him to have as a researcher, clinician and leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt gives me the opportunity to tell the story of who I believe Dr. Armitage is, to honor his career, and to promote his vision about what it means to be a physician for the patient.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He drew a parallel between Dr. Armitage and internal medicine pioneer Sir William Osler<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAlthough separated by more than a century, both believe that excellence in medicine starts with sincere curiosity about the person behind the illness,\u201d Dr. Lunning said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In that first phone call, Dr. Armitage\u2019s friendly interest was \u201can unexpected kindness that has guided every step of my career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs I got to know him, I realized that the qualities I read about in Dr. Osler in Aequanimitas<\/em> \u2014 the humility, the humanity, the joy in serving others \u2014 were standing right in front of me. Dr. Armitage became, in every sense, my Osler.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark Rupp, MD, interim chair of the UNMC Department of Internal Medicine, called Dr. Lunning a fitting choice for the inaugural chair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDr. Lunning is an internationally recognized clinician-scientist, an expert in the treatment of lymphoma, and he has made recent breakthrough observations through a multi-disciplinary and team approach in the use of CAR-T cell therapy for lupus and multiple sclerosis,\u201d Dr. Rupp said. \u201cDr. Lunning has contributed significantly to institutional success as well, via his leadership roles in the UNMC Clinical Research Center and at the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cReceipt of the Armitage chair is a great honor,\u201d said Dr. Rupp, who once described Dr. Armitage as an \u201cexemplary\u201d leader. \u201cIt is also a strong vote of confidence in Dr. Lunning and in the expectation that he will continue to be a leader in his field for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bradley Britigan, MD, congratulated Dr. Lunning on the appointment and thanked the donors, including Robert Parnes, MD, who made the first gift toward creating the chair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are confident that Dr. Lunning\u2019s work in this role will be a credit to the pioneering efforts of Dr. Armitage, exactly as the donors intended it should,\u201d Dr. Britigan said.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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