Below is a list of achievements, activities and happenings involving UNMC staff, faculty and students.
Four physicians, including three UNMC faculty, were honored last week as legends by Clarkson Regional Health Services and The Nebraska Medical Center. The UNMC physicians were:
- The late Carl Camras, M.D., who is credited with developing the drug Xalatan, the most effective drug today for the treatment of glaucoma;
- Denham Harman, M.D., Ph.D., who is internationally known as the Father of the Free Radical Theory of Aging and has been nominated for the Nobel Prize six times; and
- The late Hobart Wiltse, M.D., Ph.D., who focused on caring for children with inherited metabolic disorders. In 2000, the Hobart Wiltse Center for the Study of Metabolic Disorders at Children’s Hospital was named in his honor.
The fourth individual recognized was C. Rex Latta, M.D., a longtime ophthalmologist at Clarkson Hospital.
Sunday’s Bharat Mela event, which celebrated Indian culture, drew nearly 900 people to the Sorrell Center’s Truhlsen Campus Events Center.