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Martha Schwebach (third from the right) meets with President Gerald Ford in the Oval Office, along with the other honorees of the Ten Outstanding Young Women of America award in 1974 Martha Schwebach holds her Nursing Legend Award. Martha K. Schwebach (born February 3, 1939) was the first family nurse practitioner in the United States. [1]
She worked in public health and student health services. At that time, there were few women in any of these fields. She was director of the University Student Health Service from 1936 to 1961and it was renamed the Boynton Health Service in her honor in 1975. [1] She served as the acting dean of the School of Public Health from 1944 to 1946.
One other Nebraskan previously competed in the Miss America's Outstanding Teen. Faron Medhi of Omaha was crowned Miss Nebraska Teen USA 2022 on March 6, 2022, at Rose Blumkin Performing Arts Center in Omaha. She went on to win Miss Teen USA 2022 on October 1, 2022, becoming the first delegate from Nebraska to win the title.
Vera G. Etches (born 1975) is a Canadian physician and public health expert who has served as Ottawa's medical officer of health since 2018, the first woman to hold the position. She is best known for leading the city's public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic .
Ministry of Health: Worthwhile contributions to public health improvement, for their peculiar skills and expertise and for having proved abnegation and high moral qualities in their duties fulfillment. Sweden: Fernström Prize: Lund University: Prominent Swedish and Nordic scientists in medicine Sweden: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ...
The Nebraska Methodist Health System, also known as Bestcare, is a nonprofit Nebraskan healthcare organization that was founded in 1982. Its headquarters are located at 825 S. 169th Street in Omaha, Nebraska .
[29] [30] [31] Upon returning to the U.S., Walz became a teacher and coach in Alliance, a town of 10,000 in western Nebraska, [32] and in 1993 was named an Outstanding Young Nebraskan by the Nebraska Junior Chamber of Commerce. [33] [34] While working as a teacher, Walz met his wife, Gwen Whipple, a fellow teacher, and in 1994 the two married.
Starting in 1920, Hedger worked with the Elizabeth McCormick Memorial Fund, established by International Harvester president Cyrus McCormick Jr. in honor of a daughter who died young, [7] to study ways to improve the lives of children. Hedger traveled, lectured and wrote books giving her views on children's health issues, and continued ...