{"id":48701,"date":"2009-04-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2009\/04\/15\/national-std-expert-to-visit-unmc-on-april-22-2\/"},"modified":"2022-08-28T19:24:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T00:24:47","slug":"national-std-expert-to-visit-unmc-on-april-22-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2009\/04\/15\/national-std-expert-to-visit-unmc-on-april-22-2\/","title":{"rendered":"National STD expert to visit UNMC on April 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p align=\"left\"><font face=\"arial\">The statistics in Douglas County are hard to ignore. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial\">The chlamydia rate is nearly 70 percent higher than the United States average and the gonorrhea rate is nearly 50 percent higher. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial\">Clearly, there is a communitywide epidemic among teens and young adults. The hardest hit populations are poor, underserved, racial\/ethnic minorities and urban residents. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial\">That is why UNMC&#8217;s Center for Reducing Health Disparities in the College of Public Health and the Office of Student Equity and Multicultural Affairs will sponsor the visit from a national STD expert on April 22. The event is part of National Minority Health Awareness Month. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial\">Mindy Thompson Fullilove, M.D., a research psychiatrist at New York State Psychiatric Institute, will be the keynote speaker at a grand rounds presentation in the College of Public Health. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial\">Dr. Fullilove is widely known for her research about the AIDS epidemic in the African-American community and for her book, &quot;Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It.&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial\">Dr. Fullilove will spend two days in the Omaha area visiting with community organizations that provide care for underserved patient populations. The title of her address to the medical center community is, &quot;Root Shock and Health Disparities: A Biopsychosocial Model.&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial\">&quot;Our center, along with our community partners, is focused on the problem of STDs in Douglas County,&quot; said Shireen Rajaram, Ph.D., interim director for UNMC&#8217;s Center for Reducing Health Disparities in the College of Public Health. &quot;Yet, the high statistics of STDs are just one example of city-wide health disparities. We see it in housing, education and access to health care. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial\">&quot;Our center is uniquely situated to bring academic and community partners together to improve overall health outcomes.&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial\"><i><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<p>UNMC is the only public health science center in the state. Its educational programs are responsible for training more health professionals practicing in Nebraska than any other institution. Through their commitment to education, research, patient care and outreach, UNMC and its hospital partner, The Nebraska Medical Center, have established themselves as one of the country&#8217;s leading centers in cancer, transplantation biology, bioterrorism preparedness, neurodegenerative diseases, cardiovascular diseases, genetics, biomedical technology and ophthalmology. UNMC&rsquo;s research funding from external sources now exceeds $82 million annually and has resulted in the creation of more than 2,600 highly skilled jobs in the state. UNMC&#8217;s physician practice group, UNMC Physicians, includes 513 physicians in 50 specialties and subspecialties who practice primarily in The Nebraska Medical Center. For more information, go to UNMC&rsquo;s Web site at www.unmc.edu.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The statistics in Douglas County are hard to ignore. The chlamydia rate is nearly 70 percent higher than the United States average and the gonorrhea rate is nearly 50 percent higher. Clearly, there is a communitywide epidemic among teens and young adults. The hardest hit populations are poor, underserved, racial\/ethnic minorities and urban residents. 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