UNMC Japan relief planning meeting today

Register Register online for the meeting.

UNMC will begin organizing its response to the Japanese earthquake disaster at a meeting today in the Michael F. Sorrell Center for Health Science Education.

When: Registration at 5:30 p.m., meeting at 6 p.m.

Where: Sorrell Center Maisie Paustian Amphitheater, Room 3001.

Find the Sorrell Center View a map that shows the location of the Sorrell Center, the site of tonight’s Japanese relief effort planning meeting.

Who: Shinobu Watanabe-Galloway, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology in UNMC’s College of Public Health, and campus and local leaders will head up the meeting and begin plans for a coordinated relief effort for Japan, which was hit by a devastating 9.0-magnitude earthquake and massive tsunami on March 11.

Speakers are:

• George Behringer, honorary consul general of Japan;
  
• Omaha Mayor Jim Suttle;
  
• Ayman El-Mohandes, M.B.B.Ch., M.P.H., dean of College of Public Health;
  
• David Crouse, Ph.D., interim vice chancellor of academic affairs; and
  
• Kazuhito Sakamoto, Ph.D., research assistant professor, Eppley Cancer Institute.

The meeting is open to the public.