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MIDLANDS LEADER Q&A JACQELLE “JACKIE” LANE, FOUNDER & WELLNESS COACH LANE WELLNESS & LONGEVITY
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NIGERIA TO NEBRASKA, A GLOBAL PATH LEADS TO UNMC’S HELM BY DAISY HUTZELL-RODMAN
Dr. H. Dele Davies had two hours blocked off for MBJ. A nonprofit board meeting was waiting later that day, and across the Atlantic, an Ebola outbreak was building toward the point where the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit might be housing patients flown in from Africa. A couple of days later, University of Nebraska’s Board of Regents voted to move forward with having dual governance of UNMC with Omaha Community Foundation. Davies’ path to the chancellor’s office runs through three continents. Born and raised in Nigeria, he left for England at age 15 to finish high school, then moved to Canada at age 17 for pre-medical studies at Mount Allison University. Medical school at the University of Toronto followed, then a pediatrics residency at The Hospital for Sick Children, also in Toronto, where a single rotation redirected his entire career. Davies, the permanent ninth chancellor of the UNMC, runs a facility with real momentum. DAVIES ON PAGE 06
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