Idaho WWAMI Building Dedication Ceremony at the University of Idaho

MOSCOW, Idaho —

WHAT: Members of the media are invited to the D.A. Huckabay M.D. Medical Training Constructing naming ceremony and signal unveiling at College of Idaho, with in individual and livestream viewing choices.

The Idaho WWAMI Medical Training constructing at College of Idaho will probably be named in honor of the Huckabay Household, who established the most important endowment in U of I’s historical past, named the Durward and Susan Huckabay Basis Scholarship Endowment. For generations to return, the $12 million endowment will profit Idaho residents receiving nationally ranked medical schooling at U of I and medical coaching in rural communities throughout the Gem State as Idaho WWAMI medical college students.

To honor his grandfather’s legacy as a rural doctor, John Huckabay has contributed to scholarship assist for greater than 1,400 WWAMI medical schooling graduates because the Nineteen Nineties. Huckaby, basis trustee and Coeur d’Alene resident, will probably be current on the ceremony alongside 80 present Idaho WWAMI medical college students.

WHEN: 5-5:30 p.m. Sept. 20

WHO: Jeff Seegmiller, Idaho WWAMI Medical Training Program director; Scott Inexperienced, College of Idaho president.

WHERE: Entrance garden of the D.A. Huckabay M.D. Medical Training Constructing, 121 W. Candy Avenue, Moscow, ID. Additionally livestreamed at uidaho.edu/stay.

MEDIA AVAILABILITY: John Huckabay and two medical scholar scholarship recipients will probably be out there for interviews earlier than the ceremony, from 4 p.m. to 4:40 p.m.

RSVP: Contact Lindsay Lodis at llodis@uidaho.edu or 208-364-4037

ASSETS AVAILABLE: Courtesy pictures can be found for obtain with captions by way of a web-based media gallery. Please attain Kyle Pfannenstiel at kylecp@uidaho.edu or 208-329-8947 for help.

About WWAMI Medical Training

The College of Washington College of Drugs’s (UWSOM) public medical college for a five-state area is thought by the acronym, WWAMI: Washington (Seattle and Spokane), Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho. Established in 1971, WWAMI is a nationwide mannequin for community-based coaching of physicians for rural areas and for different populations missing enough medical providers. The medical college trains 100 college students in Seattle, 60 in Spokane, 20 in Wyoming, 20 in Alaska, 30 in Montana and 40 in Idaho by way of relationships with college companions in every of the states. Its college conducts primary and medical analysis, cares for sufferers and trains new physicians, biomedical scientists, and allied well being professionals. The medical college is ranked by U.S. Information & World Report because the nation’s greatest in main care schooling and rural medication coaching, and #2 for household medication coaching. Be taught extra at uwmedicine.org/school-of-medicine/md-program/wwami.

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Media Contact:

Lindsay Lodis
Advertising and marketing and Communications Supervisor
208-364-4037
llodis@uidaho.edu