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Pictured at last weekend’s health care reform conference are, from left: Rowen Zetterman, M.D., dean of the CU School of Medicine; Jen Jacobsen, CU law student; Sara Houston, NU law student; Atul Grover, M.D., Ph.D., chief public policy officer for the Association of American Medical College; Nick Ingraham, CU medical student; Faisal Ahmed, UNMC medical student and student regent; and Bradley Britigan, M.D., dean of the UNMC College of Medicine. Ahmed, Houston, Ingraham and Jacobsen were the primary organizers of the event.
Below is a list of achievements, activities and happenings involving UNMC staff, faculty and students.

About 200 students attended a Health Care Reform conference at UNMC on Oct. 6. Atul Grover, M.D., Ph.D., chief public policy officer for the Association of American Medical Colleges, gave the keynote address. The event was sponsored by UNMC, the University of Nebraska College of Law, and the School of Medicine and the School of Law at Creighton University.

William Thorell, M.D., associate professor of neurosurgery, recently received the Champion of Rehabilitation Award from the Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital in Lincoln. Dr. Thorell was recognized for understanding the vital role of rehabilitation in helping people achieve the greatest level of independence following a brain injury, stroke, or other type of disabling injury or illness. Watch a video tribute for Dr. Thorell and the Champion of Rehabilitation Award.

Deb Thomas, associate vice chancellor for business and finance, has been selected as UNMC’s representative in the 2012-13 Leadership Omaha class. This marks the 35th year of Leadership Omaha, making it one of the longest running community leadership programs in the nation.

Things have changed in nursing since Oct. 17, 1917 when the UNMC College of Nursing was formed near 42nd & Dewey Streets in Omaha. The hospital had been open just a few months when the University of Nebraska School for Nurses, as it was called then, admitted its first students. On Wednesday, the college celebrated its 95th anniversary and each of the five locations across Nebraska celebrated with cake.