Great Plains IDeA | Clinical and Translational Research
University of Nebraska Medical Center
University of Nebraska Medical Center

Research Scholars

Current Scholars

Ran Dai, PhD

Assistant Professor, UNMC College of Public Health
Project: Efficient Distributed Algorithms for Positive-Unlabeled Learning to Understand Long-term Viral Respiratory Infection Association with Myocarditis and Thrombosis

Ran Dai, PhD

Christopher D'Angelo, MD

Assistant Professor, UNMC Division of Oncology & Hematology
Project: Prebiotic Therapy to Target the Microbiome during CAR T-Cell Therapy for Lymphoma

Christopher D'Angelo, MD

Anupam Kotwal, MD

Assistant Professor, UNMC Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism
Project: Identifying Immune Markers to Predict Thyroid Cancer Prognosis

Anupam Kotwal, MD

Michaela Schenkelberg, PhD

Assistant Professor, UNO School of Health and Kinesiology
Project: Reducing Gaps in Sport Participation for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities

Michaela Schenkelberg, PhD

Elizabeth Wellsandt, PhD, DPT, OCS, PT

Associate Professor, UNMC College of Allied Health Professions
Project: Optimizing Movement and Physical Activity after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury

Elizabeth Wellsandt, PhD

Scholar Alumni

Windy Alonso, PhD, RN

Assistant Professor, UNMC College of Nursing
Project: An Intervention to Promote Exercise in Adults with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction
External funding: R01

Arthur Trey Andrews, PhD

Associate Professor, UNL Department of Psychology
Project: Enhancing Fotonovelas to Leverage Informal Networks and Improve Connections to Services
External funding: COBRE

Janelle Beadle, PhD

Associate Professor, UNO College of Public Affairs and Community Service, Department of Gerontology
Project: The Psychological, Neural, and Hormonal Bases of Caregiver Compassion Fatigue
External funding: COBRE

Vijaya Bhatt, MD

Associate Professor, UNMC Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Oncology & Hematology
Project: Impact of Clinicogenetic Risk-Stratified Management on Outcomes of Acute Myeloid Leukemia in Older Patients, phase II trial
External funding: R01

Byant England, MD

Associate Professor, UNMC Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology
Project: Multimorbidity Phenotypes and their Relationship with Patient Outcomes and Health Care Utilization in U.S. Veterans with Rheumatoid Arthritis
External funding: VA Career Development

Elizabeth Heinrichs-Graham, PhD

Director, Cognitive and Sensory Imaging Laboratory, Boys Town National Research Hospital
Project: Multimodal Investigation into the Effects of Hearing Loss on Cognitive and Neural Development
External funding: COBRE

Deepta Ghate, MD

Associate Professor, Emory University School of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology
Project: Estimation of Effective Field of View and Awareness of Visual Deficits in a Naturalistic Environment

Soonjo Hwang, MD

Research Director, Associate Professor, UNMC Department of Psychiatry
Project: Determining the Impact of Oxytocin on the Neural Mechanisms of Irritability and Emotional Dysregulation in the Pediatric Population
External funding: U01

Anthony Podany, PharmD

Associate Professor, UNMC College of Pharmacy
Project: Clinical Pharmacology of Efavirenz Combined with High Dose Rifapentine
External funding: K23

Daniel Rasetshwane, PhD

Hearing Scientist,
Boys Town National Research Hospital
Project: A Physiologically Based and Technically Rigorous Approach to Treating Hearing Loss
External funding: R01