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UNMC pancreatic cancer center director tells Board of Regents administrative failures are undermining center, says patient care at risk
Summary
Dr. Sunil Inghorani, inaugural director of the Pancreatic Cancer Center of Excellence at UNMC, told the Board of Regents that administrative decisions and barriers have obstructed the center’s work, blocked essential equipment purchases, and risk patient care; he requested a follow-up meeting with the board.
At the Aug. 14 Board of Regents meeting, Dr. Sunil Inghorani, a medical oncologist and the inaugural director of the Pancreatic Cancer Center of Excellence (PCCE) at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), told the board that the center’s work “has been obstructed and at times undermined by questionable policies and disaffected individuals.”
Inghorani said the PCCE, funded by a combination of state appropriations and philanthropic support, has faced repeated administrative barriers that he says have impeded purchases of “state of the art technologies in mass spectrometry and spatial…
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