{"id":63322,"date":"2018-10-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/10\/29\/state-sen-thibodeau-tours-unmc\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T15:56:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T20:56:13","slug":"state-sen-thibodeau-tours-unmc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/10\/29\/state-sen-thibodeau-tours-unmc\/","title":{"rendered":"State Sen. Thibodeau tours UNMC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>State Sen. Theresa Thibodeau of Nebraska&#8217;s District 6 toured UNMC earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Thibodeau, whose district encompasses part of Omaha, toured the Fred &#038; Pamela Buffett Cancer Center and the iEXCEL Visualization Hub before meeting with Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. 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