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James Russell Neff, an
internationally recognized faculty member and orthopaedic surgeon for the
University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, died on July 12,
2005, at the age of sixty-five after an extended battle with cancer.James (Jim) Neff was born in Beloit, Kansas, in 1940, but spent his
childhood years in Topeka, Kansas, where he attended public school until his
graduation from high school in 1958. He received his undergraduate degree from
Kansas State University in 1962, and went on to receive his medical degree
from the University of Kansas College of Medicine in 1966. Jim spent the years
of 1966 through 1968 at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, completing an
internship in surgery, followed by a residency in general surgery.