{"id":5808,"date":"2024-10-09T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/?p=5808"},"modified":"2024-12-17T12:27:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T18:27:45","slug":"microbio-part-3-dr-mark-rupp-the-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/2024\/10\/09\/microbio-part-3-dr-mark-rupp-the-life\/","title":{"rendered":"microBio (Part 3): Dr. Mark Rupp, the Life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This post is part of a multi-part installment exploring the career and life of Dr. Mark Rupp, outgoing Chief of Infectious Disease at UNMC. If you missed our first post introducing Dr. Rupp and this series<\/a> or part 2 exploring Dr. Rupp’s career<\/a>, see the linked posts to catch up. Otherwise, read on to learn more about Dr. Rupp’s life, interests, and hobbies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A recent hiking trip to Escalante in Utah (the little pink person in the corner is Elizabeth \u2013 Dr. Rupp’s wife)<\/sup>  <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

What are your favorite pastimes\/hobbies?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Up until fairly recently (pandemic casualty) I played indoor soccer with an \u201cold timers\u201d club.  With the arrival of grandchildren, I enjoy spending time with them and watching them grow up so very quickly.  Gardening is a favorite pastime, as is spending evenings on the backyard deck with friends and neighbors. The high point of my year is an annual backpacking trip with my adult children in a remote wilderness area \u2013 truly off the grid.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are your favorite genres of book\/movie\/music?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve always thought that life is a bit better when you are reading a good book and I usually have a book or two that I am engaged with. I favor American history, but also enjoy science, current events, economics, politics, etc. Once in a while, my wife will steer me to great fiction. For example, I just finished Eric Larson\u2018s \u201cThe Demon of Unrest\u2019 about the days just before the Lincoln inauguration and the initiation of the Civil War (some interesting parallels to the modern day) and I\u2019ve started Hampton Sides\u2019 \u201cThe Wide Wide Sea\u201d about Captain James Cook\u2019s 3rd<\/sup> and final voyage. I definitely recommend Abraham Verghese and the Covenant of Water. A few other recent worthy reads include Wasteland \u2013 by Oliver Franklin Wallis, Caste \u2013 by Isabel Wilkerson, and The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science \u2013 by Peter Hotez.  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where have you lived? Which was your favorite?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My father was a geologist who worked for an oil company, and we moved around the western US oil fields as I was growing up \u2013 born in Kansas, lived in Oklahoma, Colorado, and moved to Houston, Texas, in high school.  I went to UT Austin and Baylor College of Medicine and then went out to Virginia for 7 years of post-doctoral training.  UNMC was my first \u201creal job\u201d \u2013 my dad kidded me about finishing 27th<\/sup> grade as I joined faculty at UNMC.  I\u2019ve lived in Nebraska longer than any other place.  I truly believe that \u201cyou should bloom where you are planted\u201d and every place I\u2019ve lived has been full of wonderful people, places, and opportunities.   <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Dr. Mark E. Rupp
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This post is part of a multi-part installment exploring the career and life of Dr. Mark Rupp, outgoing Chief of Infectious Disease at UNMC. If you missed our first post introducing Dr. Rupp and this series or part 2 exploring Dr. Rupp’s career, see the linked posts to catch up. Otherwise, read on to learn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1124,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5808"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5858,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808\/revisions\/5858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}