{"id":1176,"date":"2018-03-01T14:12:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T20:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/familymedicine\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2018-03-01T08:15:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T14:15:38","slug":"ahec-welcomes-program-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/familymedicine\/2018\/03\/01\/ahec-welcomes-program-coordinator\/","title":{"rendered":"AHEC welcomes program coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>Lydia Sand joined the Department of Family Medicine last week and will serve as the program coordinator for the Nebraska Area Health Education Center Program (AHEC).\u00a0 In her role, she&#8217;ll work collaboratively with a variety of stakeholders to coordinate programs that support building a robust and diverse health care workforce in Nebraska.\u00a0 Some of her work will focus on organizing and successfully implementing existing AHEC events like the 8th Grade State Science Meet and activities for undergraduate students interested in health careers.\u00a0 However, Lydia will also play a critical role in the development and implementation of a new longitudinal Nebraska AHEC Scholars Program for health profession students interested in serving rural and underserved areas.<\/p>\n<p>Lydia is a South Dakota native and has been residing in Omaha for almost five years. Lydia has previously held positions at Children\u2019s Scholarship Fund of Omaha and the American Diabetes Association. She holds a Master\u2019s degree in Public Administration from the University of Nebraska Omaha and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science and International Relations from Bethel University. Currently, she serves as the board chair for the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network of Greater Omaha.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lydia Sand joined the Department of Family Medicine last week and will serve as the program coordinator for the Nebraska Area Health Education Center Program (AHEC).\u00a0 In her role, she&#8217;ll work collaboratively with a variety of stakeholders to coordinate programs that support building a robust and diverse health care workforce in Nebraska.\u00a0 Some of her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":540,"featured_media":1177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nebraska-ahec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/familymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/familymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/familymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/familymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/540"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/familymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/familymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/familymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions\/1178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/familymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/familymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/familymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/familymedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}