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University of Nebraska Medical Center

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

Lani Zimmerman, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN

Professor, UNMC College of Nursing

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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

Kimberly Carlson, PhD

Chair, professor, UNK Department of Biology

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

Bryant England, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Division of Rheumatology

Karen Gould, PhD

Professor, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Anatomy
Vice Chair for Faculty Development, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Anatomy

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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