Regent resolution recognizes UNMC’s community service award

UNMC Chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D., left, accepts the resolution from NU Regent Drew Miller.

The University of Nebraska Board of Regents Saturday approved the following resolution recognizing UNMC’s recent service award from the Association of American Medical Colleges:

Whereas, the University of Nebraska Medical Center has received the 2003 Outstanding Community Service Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges; and

Whereas, this prestigious award recognizes outstanding efforts to meet the medical needs of people not well served by traditional health-care systems; and

Whereas, the winners of this award are selected from among all 125 medical schools in the United States; and

Whereas, AAMC President Jordan J. Cohen, M.D., praised UNMC for “supplying essential health services to the medically underserved, while providing students with the clinical training and experience necessary to become competent, compassionate physicians;” and

Whereas, receipt of this award is a clear indication that UNMC students and faculty share in the traditional Nebraska spirit of volunteerism and acceptance of responsibility for the well-being of others.

Now, therefore, be it resolved, that the Board of Regents congratulates the faculty, staff and students of University of Nebraska Medical Center on its receipt of this important national recognition.

Dec. 13, 2003