Known as a transformational leader, who led the University of Nebraska Medical Center's dramatic development into a major academic institution with transplantation and research, Dr. Charles Andrews has died.
He was 94 and was chancellor at UNMC from 1983 to 1991.
The fifth chancellor of the central Omaha campus, the Oklahoman was in the Army during World War II, and then served as a captain in the U.S. Air Force with the medical corps.
Andrews passed away at Nebraska Medicine where he was being treated for a recent stroke.