{"id":51629,"date":"2015-01-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/26\/remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d\/"},"modified":"2022-09-02T20:41:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T01:41:44","slug":"remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/26\/remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Manuchair (Mike) Ebadi, Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"

Manuchair “Mike” Ebadi, Ph.D., 79, the first chairman of UNMC’s Department of Pharmacology and one of UNMC’s most celebrated teachers, died of a massive heart attack Jan. 19 at his home in Laguna Niguel, Calif.<\/p>\n

\n

Other achievements<\/h3>\n

At UNMC, Dr. Ebadi also created independent pharmacology curriculums for medicine, nursing, physician assistant, physical therapy, neurology\/ophthalmology\/psychiatry, pharmacy and graduate students, and established and supported the student research forum.<\/p>\n

After leaving UNMC, Dr. Ebadi became the associate vice president for health affairs at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, associate dean for research and program development, and director of the Center for Excellence in Neurosciences at the UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences, where he stayed until his retirement in 2007.<\/p>\n

He authored nine pharmacology textbooks, 65 chapters and co-authored one book on the role of vitamin B6 in neurobiology.<\/p>\n

He received his Ph.D. in pharmacology in 1967 from the University of Missouri Medical School in Columbia and his master’s of science degree in pharmacology in 1962 from the University of Missouri in Kansas City. He earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry at Park College, Parkville, Mo., in 1960.\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Dr. Ebadi, a champion of excellence in teaching, was chairman from 1971 to 1988. Services are today at the Fairhaven Memorial Home, Mission Viejo, Calif. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be sent to Omaha’s Open Door Mission, of which Dr. Ebadi was a longtime supporter. <\/p>\n

He joined UNMC’s faculty in 1967 as an assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor in 1969. He was appointed interim chairman in 1970 after the department was split from physiology. It is now the department of pharmacology and experimental neuroscience.<\/p>\n

Dr. Ebadi’s passions were teaching and neurological research. “He set a high standard of quality for teaching in our department. He wanted students to understand the material and enjoy learning,” said Terry Hexum, Ph.D., professor emeritus of pharmacology, the first faculty member hired by Dr. Ebadi.<\/p>\n

“Everyone at UNMC took note of his teaching standards, which caught on in other departments,” he said. “He loved teaching and classes were always full.”<\/p>\n

Dr. Ebadi received many teaching awards, including the Alvin M. Earle Outstanding Health Science Educator Award, and the university-wide Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award and the now retired Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award. <\/p>\n

But Dr. Ebadi was most proud of the ones presented by students, said his daughter, Michelle McCormick, a writer who lives in Holdrege.<\/p>\n

College of Medicine students enjoyed his engaging and interesting classes so much that they awarded him the Golden Apple for teaching excellence 11 times between 1971 and 1994. He had won it so many times that Dr. Ebadi was “retired” from future award consideration and became part of the elite Golden Apple Hall of Fame in 1995.<\/p>\n

“Although he was busy with his research, he never turned away a student. He gave them all the time in the world,” McCormick said.<\/p>\n

He created awards too — three for students and one for faculty. The Thomas Jefferson Ingenuity Award for graduate students is the only award that remains active.<\/p>\n

Charles Murrin, Ph.D., professor emeritus, pharmacology and experimental neuroscience, was hired by Dr. Ebadi in 1978. <\/p>\n

“He was an interesting and complicated man,” Dr. Murrin said. “He built the department from scratch, increasing the faculty from five to 14, and developed one of the most successful basic science departments at UNMC.”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First chairman of pharmacology was acknowledged as a superlative teacher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":51630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","department-college-of-medicine","department-pharmacology-and-experimental-neuroscience","department-unmc-front-page","department-unmc-today-todays-headlines","author_override-elizabeth-kumru-unmc-public-relations"],"yoast_head":"\nRemembering Manuchair (Mike) Ebadi, Ph.D.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"First chairman of pharmacology was acknowledged as a superlative teacher.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/26\/remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Remembering Manuchair (Mike) Ebadi, Ph.D.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"First chairman of pharmacology was acknowledged as a superlative teacher.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/26\/remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Newsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/unmcedu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-01-26T06:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-09-03T01:41:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ebadi01261.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"705\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"406\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"John Keenan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@unmc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@unmc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"John Keenan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/26\/remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/26\/remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"John Keenan\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/person\/59c9598a54f1a531c30cccc1d010ac17\"},\"headline\":\"Remembering Manuchair (Mike) Ebadi, Ph.D.\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-01-26T06:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-03T01:41:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/26\/remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d\/\"},\"wordCount\":567,\"commentCount\":8,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/26\/remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ebadi01261.jpg\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/26\/remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/26\/remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/26\/remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d\/\",\"name\":\"Remembering Manuchair (Mike) Ebadi, Ph.D.\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/26\/remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/26\/remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ebadi01261.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-01-26T06:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-03T01:41:44+00:00\",\"description\":\"First chairman of pharmacology was acknowledged as a superlative teacher.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/26\/remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/26\/remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/26\/remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ebadi01261.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ebadi01261.jpg\",\"width\":705,\"height\":406},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/26\/remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Remembering Manuchair (Mike) Ebadi, Ph.D.\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/\",\"name\":\"Newsroom\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#organization\",\"name\":\"University of Nebraska Medical Center\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/overview-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/overview-1.png\",\"width\":500,\"height\":153,\"caption\":\"University of Nebraska Medical Center\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/unmcedu\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/unmc\",\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/iamunmc\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/UNMCEDU\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/person\/59c9598a54f1a531c30cccc1d010ac17\",\"name\":\"John Keenan\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/author\/02e74f10e0327ad868d138f2b4fdd6f0\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Remembering Manuchair (Mike) Ebadi, Ph.D.","description":"First chairman of pharmacology was acknowledged as a superlative teacher.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/26\/remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Remembering Manuchair (Mike) Ebadi, Ph.D.","og_description":"First chairman of pharmacology was acknowledged as a superlative teacher.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/26\/remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d\/","og_site_name":"Newsroom","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/unmcedu","article_published_time":"2015-01-26T06:00:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-09-03T01:41:44+00:00","og_image":[{"width":705,"height":406,"url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ebadi01261.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"John Keenan","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@unmc","twitter_site":"@unmc","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"John Keenan","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/26\/remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/26\/remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d\/"},"author":{"name":"John Keenan","@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/person\/59c9598a54f1a531c30cccc1d010ac17"},"headline":"Remembering Manuchair (Mike) Ebadi, Ph.D.","datePublished":"2015-01-26T06:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2022-09-03T01:41:44+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/26\/remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d\/"},"wordCount":567,"commentCount":8,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/26\/remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ebadi01261.jpg","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/26\/remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/26\/remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d\/","url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/26\/remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d\/","name":"Remembering Manuchair (Mike) Ebadi, Ph.D.","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/26\/remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/26\/remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ebadi01261.jpg","datePublished":"2015-01-26T06:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2022-09-03T01:41:44+00:00","description":"First chairman of pharmacology was acknowledged as a superlative teacher.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/26\/remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/26\/remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/26\/remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ebadi01261.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ebadi01261.jpg","width":705,"height":406},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/26\/remembering-manuchair-mike-ebadi-ph-d\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Remembering Manuchair (Mike) Ebadi, Ph.D."}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/","name":"Newsroom","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#organization","name":"University of Nebraska Medical Center","url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/overview-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/overview-1.png","width":500,"height":153,"caption":"University of Nebraska Medical Center"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/unmcedu","https:\/\/x.com\/unmc","https:\/\/instagram.com\/iamunmc","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/UNMCEDU"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/#\/schema\/person\/59c9598a54f1a531c30cccc1d010ac17","name":"John Keenan","url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/author\/02e74f10e0327ad868d138f2b4fdd6f0\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81354,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51629\/revisions\/81354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}