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UMC -- a Research and Teaching Hospital?

Published February 28, 2011 at 5:00 AM PST

After struggling financially for the past couple of years the Clark County Commission wants to make University Medial Center a cutting edge research and teaching hospital.

So how will that happen?

That's what the newly appointed 11-member UMC advisory panel hopes to help the County Commission find out.

We talk to members of the newly formed board.

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Dr. John Ruckdeschel, Dir and CEO, Nevada Cancer Institute

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