Professional Development Leadership Committee
The professional development leadership committee of the Great Plains IDeA-CTR is made up of research experts across the region.
The professional development core works with all of the Great Plains IDeA-CTR cores and institutions to integrate shared strengths in education, training and mentoring to develop successful investigators throughout the region.
Leadership Committee
Ted R. Mikuls, MD, MSPH
Stokes-Shackleford Professor of Rheumatology
Professor, Division of Rheumatology
Director, Professional Development Core, Great Plains IDeA-CTR
Ann Anderson Berry, MD, PhD
Chief, UNMC Division of Neonatology
Vice Chair of Research, Department of Pediatrics
Professor, UNMC Division of Neonatology
Executive Director, Child Health Research Institute
Great Plains IDeA-CTR Institutional Coordinator for Children's Nebraska
Jason D. Coleman, PhD, MSPH
Associate Dean, UNO College of Education, Health and Human Sciences
Director, professor, UNO School of Health and Kinesiology
Professor, UNMC College of Public Health Department of Health Promotion
Karen Gould, PhD
Professor, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Anatomy
Vice Chair for Faculty Development, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Anatomy
Frederick Hamel, PhD
Professor, UNMC Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism
Great Plains IDeA-CTR institutional coordinator for Omaha VA Medical Center
Deepak Khazanchi, PhD
UNO Mutual of Omaha Distinguished Chair, Information Science and Technology
Professor, UNO Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis
Director, UNO Center for Management of IT
Director, UNO Executive Master's of Science in IT
Joan Lappe, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Dean for Research, Creighton University College of Nursing
Chair, Creighton University Task Force for Collaborative Research
Professor, Creighton University College of Nursing
Ryan McCreery, PhD
Vice President of Research, Boys Town National Research Hospital
Director, Audibility, Perception and Cognition Laboratory
Kaleb Michaud, PhD
Professor, Division of Rheumatology
Director, Rheumatology Fellowship Research Program
Jennifer Mize-Nelson, PhD
Director, UNL Research Strategy and Infrastructure
Research Associate Professor, UNL Department of Psychology