Spring | Summer 2009

• Creating New Pathways in Treatment
  Since the inception of the liver transplant program in 1985, the surgical team that is one facet of the world-renowned liver disease program at The Nebraska Medical Center has performed 2,534 liver transplants.
• Restoring Faith
  It was a long and rigorous journey, but Dwayne Burgess recently won back his faith in medicine, in God and in life. And he gives credit to The Nebraska Medical Center for helping him get there.
• The Highest Level of Care
  Angelica Tellgren, RN, learned the magnitude of being a nurse at The Nebraska Medical Center in a very unlikely place.

• Saving Face
  John Allbery thought the swollen glands in his throat meant he was coming down with a cold. His family physician suspected an infection and prescribed antibiotics.
• No Small Innovation
  After a year of suffering persistent and worsening symptoms of reflux, Sherri Mastin’s quality of life had taken a dramatic spiral downward.