{"id":19831,"date":"2003-01-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-31T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2003\/01\/31\/dr-wigton-presents-college-of-medicine-history\/"},"modified":"2003-01-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-31T06:00:00","slug":"dr-wigton-presents-college-of-medicine-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2003\/01\/31\/dr-wigton-presents-college-of-medicine-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Wigton presents College of Medicine history"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/wigtonJanuary2003.jpg\" border=\"2\" align=\"left\" alt=\"picture disc.\">On Thursday, Robert Wigton, M.D., associate dean for the UNMC College of Medicine and UNMC&#8217;s resident historian, presented Part 2 of his series on the campus&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Wigton had planned to present the campus history in three parts, but said he now will cover the subject in about five presentations. 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