Leadership & Advisory Groups

Advisory Groups

Our Community Advisory Board helps us identify and prioritize regional health issues and funding decisions based on board members’ expertise and knowledge of community needs. Along with our Steering Committee, which is our network's primary governing body, we receive essential guidance from external and internal advisory committees.

The steering committee meets quarterly on topics of interest and to participate in decision-making related to policies and procedures, pilot grant and scholar programs, and events such as the annual scientific meeting.

Voting Members:

Principal investigator
Senior associate dean for research, UNMC
Program administrator
Core directors
Community Advisory Board representative
Participating institutions' institutional coordinators
Project coordinator appointed by National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Non-voting Members:

UNeMed chief executive
Practice-Based Research Network representative

The core operations subgroup ensures our network is on-track to meet milestones. Its members:

Principal investigator
Program administrator
Core directors

Administrative Core

Matthew Rizzo, MD, FAAN, FANA

Frances & Edgar Reynolds Chair, UNMC Department of Neurological Sciences
Professor, UNMC Department of Neurological Sciences
Principal Investigator, Director, Great Plains IDeA-CTR
Director of Neuroscience Services, Nebraska Medicine

Phone: 402-559-8600
Fax: 402-559-9510

Howard Fox, MD, PhD

Professor, UNMC Department of Neurological Sciences
Senior Associate Dean of Research and Development, UNMC College of Medicine
Director, Center for Integrative and Translational Neuroscience
Co-Investigator, Co-Director, Great Plains IDeA-CTR

Julie Halstead, BA

Marketing and Communications Specialist, Great Plains IDeA-CTR Administrative Core

Research Design, Compliance, and Data Management (RDCD) Core

Bethany Lowndes, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor, Human Factors, UNMC Department of Neurological Sciences

Director, Great Plains IDeA-CTR RDCD Core

Jerrod Anzalone, PhD

Assistant Professor, UNMC College of Public Health Department of Biostatistics
Co-Director, Great Plains IDeA-CTR Biomedical Informatics & Cyberinfrastructure Core

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