Dr. Jackson receives 2021 Koefoot Award

  • The VFW and Auxiliary presented a check for $2,025 to the Pawnee City Fire Department Tuesday night. The check was the amount raised from the recent fundraiser held at the Blazin’ Bull. The money will go toward the new fire station. Ray Kappel/Republican
    The VFW and Auxiliary presented a check for $2,025 to the Pawnee City Fire Department Tuesday night. The check was the amount raised from the recent fundraiser held at the Blazin’ Bull. The money will go toward the new fire station. Ray Kappel/Republican
  • From left, Mindy Lacey, MD; Jeffrey Harrison, MD, chair of the UNMC Department of Family Medicine; Barb Jackson; Richard Jackson, MD, and Kent Niss, MD, UNMC alumni, volunteer preceptor.
    From left, Mindy Lacey, MD; Jeffrey Harrison, MD, chair of the UNMC Department of Family Medicine; Barb Jackson; Richard Jackson, MD, and Kent Niss, MD, UNMC alumni, volunteer preceptor.

    On June 2, Pawnee’s Richard Jackson, MD, was recognized by the UNMC Department of Family Medicine as the 2021 recipient of the Marion D. and Theodore H. Koefoot, Jr., MD, Outstanding Preceptor in Rural Family Medicine Award.

    The award is granted to a rural Nebraska family physician who provides outstanding teaching and mentoring of medical students during their family medicine rural preceptorship a…