Our Team

Russell McCulloh, MD

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

Phone: 402-955-6088

Ashley Deschamp, MD

NPCTU Junior Faculty Co-Investigator
Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Pulmonology

Phone: 402-559-6275

Kate Heelan, PhD

NPCTU Co-Investigator
Professor/Director/Assistant Department Chair Physical Activity and Wellness Laboratory Kinesiology and Sport Sciences Department, University of Nebraska at Kearney

Phone: 308-865-8180

Ellen Kerns, PhD

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

Phone: 402-552-9583

Kari Neemann, MD

NPCTU Junior Faculty Co-Investigator
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
Medical Advisor to the Douglas County Health Department

Phone: 402-955-4005

Betty Oberle , RN, BSN

Research Nurse Coordinator, Pediatric Research Office

Phone: 402-689-8701

Kari Simonsen, MD, MBA

NPCTU Senior Faculty Development Co-Investigator
Professor, Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease
Chair, Department of Pediatrics

Phone: 402-955-3933

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

Jennifer Blackford, PhD

Hattie B. Munroe Professor
Professor of Neurological Sciences, UNMC
Professor of Psychology, UNO
Director, Research at MMI

Archana Chatterjee, MD, PhD

Dean, Chicago Medical School
Vice President for Medical Affairs

Ann Davis, PhD

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

William B. Rizzo, MD

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

Kari A. Simonsen, MD, MBA

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

Phone: 402-955-3933

Michelle Warren, PhD

Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Nebraska Kearney