Our Team
![infant with head turned in hospital bed](https://www.unmc.edu/chri/_images/npcu-team-large1.jpeg)
The NPCTU Team
NPCTU Principal Investigator
Vice President for Research, Nebraska Medicine
Associate Vice Chancellor for Clinical Research, UNMC
Director of Clinical and Translational Research Operations, Children’s Nebraska
Professor, Divisions of Pediatric Hospital Medicine and Pediatric Infectious Diseases
![Russell McCulloh, MD](https://www.unmc.edu/pediatrics/_images/divisions/id/01_20_2023_russellmcculloh014.jpg)
NPCTU Junior Faculty Co-Investigator
Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Pulmonology
![Ashley Deschamp, MD](https://www.unmc.edu/chri/_images/ashley-deschamp-aoe.jpeg)
NPCTU Co-Investigator
Professor/Director/Assistant Department Chair Physical Activity and Wellness Laboratory Kinesiology and Sport Sciences Department, University of Nebraska at Kearney
![Kate Heelan, PhD](https://www.unmc.edu/chri/_images/heelan-web.jpeg)
Director of Research Informatics, Child Health Research Institute
Co-Director of Biomedical Informatics & Cybrerinfrastrucure Core, Great Plains IDeA-CTR
Deputy Director of Data Navigation, Research Education Administration and Development in Health Informatics (READI) Core
Data Scientist, Division of Care Transformation
Assistant Professor, Division of Biomedical Informatics and Health System Science
![Ellen Kerns](https://www.unmc.edu/chri/_images/kerns1.jpeg)
NPCTU Junior Faculty Co-Investigator
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
Medical Advisor to the Douglas County Health Department
![Kari Neemann, MD](https://www.unmc.edu/chri/_images/2018_kari_neeman_correct_size.jpg)
Research Nurse Coordinator, Pediatric Research Office
![Betty Oberle RN, BSN](https://www.unmc.edu/chri/_images/oberlecropped.jpeg)
NPCTU Senior Faculty Development Co-Investigator
Professor, Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease
Chair, Department of Pediatrics
![Kari Simonsen, MD, MBA](https://www.unmc.edu/chri/_images/simonsen-kari.jpeg)
NPCTU Scientific Oversight Committee Members
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
![Ann Anderson Berry, MD, PhD](https://www.unmc.edu/pediatrics/_images/divisions/neonatology/anderson-berry.jpg)
Hattie B. Munroe Professor
Professor of Neurological Sciences, UNMC
Professor of Psychology, UNO
Director, Research at MMI
![Jennifer Blackford](https://www.unmc.edu/chri/research-resources/npctu/09_06_2023_jenniferblackford020rt.jpg)
Dean, Chicago Medical School
Vice President for Medical Affairs
Ralph L Smith Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, University of Kansas
Director, Center for Children's Healthy Lifestyles & Nutrition, University of Kansas
Division Chief, Division of Developmental and Behavioral Sciences, University of Kansas
Professor, UNMC Division of Inherited Metabolic Diseases
Chief, UNMC Division of Inherited Metabolic Diseases
Scientific Director, Child Health Research Institute
Helen Freytag Chair in Pediatrics
![William B. Rizzo, MD](https://www.unmc.edu/pediatrics/_images/divisions/inherited-metabolic-diseases/rizzo.jpg)
Carol Remmer Angle, MD, Presidential Chair of Pediatrics
Chair, UNMC Department of Pediatrics, UNMC College of Medicine
Associate Dean for Pediatric Affairs, College of Medicine
Professor, UNMC Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases
![Kari A. Simonsen, MD, MBA](https://www.unmc.edu/pediatrics/_images/divisions/id/simonsen.jpg)
Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Nebraska Kearney