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Dr. Evan Norby, program director for the UW Cheyenne Family Medicine Residency Program, receives his COVID-19 vaccination late last week. He was one of the first health care workers in Wyoming to receive the Pfizer vaccine. (UW Photo)
As shipments of the first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines began arriving in Wyoming, health care workers at the University of Wyoming’s two clinic/residency programs in Cheyenne and Casper were among the first in line to receive their shots.
Other UW employees in front-line health care jobs will soon join them, followed by other employees in high-risk categories. Eventually, COVID-19 vaccinations are expected to be available to all employees and students, in accordance with priorities established by the Wyoming Department of Health.
(Laramie, WY) – As shipments of the first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines began arriving in Wyoming last week, health care workers at the University of Wyomingâs two clinic/residency programs in Cheyenne and Casper were among the first in line to receive their shots.
Other UW employees in front-line health care jobs will soon join them, followed by other employees in high-risk categories. Eventually, COVID-19 vaccinations are expected to be available to all employees and students, in accordance with priorities established by the Wyoming Department of Health.
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Both the Cheyenne and Casper Family Medicine Residency programs, part of the UW College of Health Sciences, began administering the first of two Pfizer doses to their residents and faculty physicians Thursday, thus beginning what many might describe as âfinally turning the cornerâ in the nearly yearlong battle against the novel coronavirus.
December 10, 2020
Dr. Tabitha Thrasher is UW’s first graduate of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Geriatric Fellowship program, successfully passing her geriatric board exam this fall. (UW Photo)
When Dr. Tabitha Thrasher was still in high school, she worked in a skilled nursing home in northwestern Missouri where she grew up, assigned to the janitorial and maintenance crew scrubbing baseboards, mopping floors and emptying trash cans. Thrasher also managed to stay longer in the elderly patients’ rooms, patiently listening to their life stories.
Thrasher, a University of Wyoming clinical associate professor at the Family Medicine Residency Program in Casper, never thought about going into the medical field until her father died in 2003 from lung cancer.