Fifteen new members have been named to the University of Nebraska Medical
Center’s Board of Counselors.
The Board of Counselors consists of community and business leaders from
the state of Nebraska who serve in an advisory capacity to the Medical
Center and Chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D. The board, which currently
includes 56 members, meets three times per year and is provided with a
variety of presentations at each meeting designed to help members learn
more about UNMC.
The 15 new members are listed below by their hometowns:
AURORA — Jason Schneider, dental sales consultant;
BELLEVUE — John Barrientos, Allstate Insurance agent, Barrientos Consulting,
Omaha;
HASTINGS — Jan Scherr, nurse coordinator, Hastings Public Schools;
HOLDREGE — Roy Pearson, retired owner, K.K. Appliance Company;
NORTH PLATTE — Rick Kolkman, president, First National Bank of North
Platte; Cindy Way, pharmacist, Great Plains Regional Medical Center;
OMAHA — Lynn Grant, Elkhorn Valley Meat Packing Company, Dodge, Neb.;
Larry Kavich, CEO, All Makes Furniture; Belinda Malone, president, Indian
Hill Neighborhood Association; Randall Palandri, president, Savage and
Palandri Architects; Cynthia Peacock, president, Methodist Hospital Foundation;
Carole Woods Harris, Douglas County Commission; Tracy Zaiss, president
and owner, Zaiss and Company;
POTTER — Linda Shoemaker, vice president, patient care services, interim
CEO, Memorial Health Center, Sidney, Neb.;
WINNEBAGO — Ann Downes, president, Little Priest Tribal College.
At the most recent meeting on the UNMC campus, Omaha’s N.P. “Sandy”
Dodge, Jr., was installed as chairman and Kathy Campbell of Lincoln began
a term as vice chairwoman.
Dodge, who joined the Board of Counselors in Jan. 2000, is president
and chairman of the board of N.P. Dodge Real Estate Company, while also
serving as chairman of the Omaha Public Power District board of directors
and director of American States Water Company and Bridges Investment Council.
Campbell, who has been on the Board of Counselors since April 2002, recently
retired her position on the Lancaster County Board.
The Board of Counselors’ next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct.
15 in Lincoln.