Nebraska’s public health directors were collectively honored with the Chancellor’s Distinguished Service Award during UNMC's Omaha commencement ceremony May 8. The directors partnered with their communities to engage in providing expert COVID-19 public health guidance since March 2020.
In addition to their everyday duties, they are recognized for working tirelessly to overcome obstacles, identifying key data to create robust dashboards, creating partnerships to establish testing sites, conducting contact tracing, reviewing business and event plans, distributing personal protective equipment and more.
Auburn –Grant Brueggemann, Southeast District Health Department
Burwell –Chuck Cone, Loup Basin Public Health Department
Columbus — Chuck Sepers, East Central District Health Department
Crete — Kim Showalter, Public Health Solutions District Health Department
Dakota City — Natasha Ritchison, Dakota County Health Department
Fremont — Terra Uhing, Three Rivers Public Health Department
Grand Island –Teresa Anderson, Central District Health Department
Hastings –Michele Bever, South Heartland District Health Department
Hemingford –Kim Engel, Panhandle Public Health District
Kearney –Jeremy Eschliman, Two Rivers Public Health Department
Lincoln –Pat Lopez, Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department
McCook — Myra Stoney, Southwest Nebraska Public Health Department
North Platte — Shannon Vanderheiden, West Central District Health Department
Omaha — Adi Pour, Douglas County Health Department
O'Neill — Roger Wiese, North Central District Health Department
Papillion — Sarah Schram, Sarpy/Cass Health Department
Wayne — Julie Rother, Northeast Nebraska Public Health Department
Wisner — Gina Uhing, Elkhorn Logan Valley Public Health Department
York — Laura McDougall, Four Corners Health Department
We are Nebraska Medicine and UNMC. Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for all individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.
Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Flickr
UNMC recognizes 19 state public health directors for leadership, service
