Today, UNMC again honors faculty members with extraordinary service records. Some will be recognized for their exceptional teaching, mentoring and community service records. Others will be applauded for their long-standing tenure at UNMC.
The campus is invited to celebrate the accomplishments of its faculty members at today’s Annual Faculty Meeting, which begins at 4 p.m. in the Durham Research Center auditorium. A reception immediately follows in the Durham Research Center atrium.
UNMC Chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D., will present his annual address, titled “Thinking World-Class.” Awards will be presented to the following five faculty members:
- M. Patricia Leuschen, Ph.D. — the inaugural UNMC Outstanding Mentor of Graduate Students Award.
- Jim Medder, M.D. — the second annual Spirit of Community Service Award.
- Ann Berger, Ph.D., Joel Bessmer, M.D., and Barbara Heywood, M.D. – the 2005 Outstanding Teaching Awards.
Profiles of the award recipients can be found in the UNMC Today online archives.
Faculty members who have worked at UNMC for 30, 20 and 10 years also will be recognized. Ten faculty members will be recognized for 30 years of service. They are: James Chapin, M.D., Leon Davis, D.D.S., M.D., Gerald Moore, M.D., Ernest Prentice, Ph.D., Warren Sanger, Ph.D., Eric Scholar, Ph.D., Gordon Todd, Ph.D., James Temme, Brian Lange, Ph.D., and Marlene Lindeman.
The names of faculty members who have served at UNMC for 20, 10 and 5 years are listed near the end of this article.
30-year service awardees
College of Medicine
James Chapin, M.D., is professor of the UNMC Department of Anesthesiology and associate professor in clinical perfusion. He also serves as director of liver transplant anesthesia, director of transplant anesthesia and coordinator of the residency training program. The Fort Crook, Neb., native earned his medical degree in 1972 from UNMC, where he also completed his internship and residency. Dr. Chapin has served on the graduate medical education committee since 1997 and on the graduate faculty since 1981. He is a consulting physician to the Lincoln Veteran’s Administration Medical Center and a hotline consultant to the Malignant Hyperthermia Association of the United States.
Leon Davis, D.D.S., M.D., has served as professor of surgery in the UNMC Department of Surgery since 1992 and chief of dentistry service for the University of Nebraska hospital and clinics from 1982 until the merger of University and Clarkson Hospitals. He was the oral and maxillofacial surgery program director from 1975 until 2001. In 2004, the University of Nebraska Foundation honored Dr. Davis with a named chair: the Leon F. Davis Distinguished Chair of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. A Missouri native, Dr. Davis earned his dental degree from the University of Nebraska in 1967, a master of science in 1970 and his medical degree in 1972 from UNMC. He completed his oral surgery residency at Nebraska and his general surgery internship at the University of Kentucky Medical Center. In 1986-87, he did a microsurgery sabbatical at Massachusetts General Hospital and a temperomandibular joint arthroscopic surgical sabbatical at Louisiana State University. He has served on numerous national and local organizations including the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, of which he was president in 1989-90.
To say the career of Warren Sanger, Ph.D., has had an impact on the scientific community is a strong understatement. In all, Dr. Sanger has authored or co-authored 192 published journal articles or book chapters, as well as 290 abstracts. Dr. Sanger is a professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Pathology/Microbiology. He is the director of the Human Genetics Laboratory (HGL), a full-service cytogenetics and molecular cytogenetics clinical laboratory as well as a research laboratory located in the Munroe Meyer Institute. The HGL also is actively involved in the teaching of medical students, graduate students, residents, fellows and faculty. Dr. Sanger is a board-certified clinical cytogeneticist and medical geneticist. A graduate of Kearney State College in 1968, Dr. Sanger earned his master’s degree in genetics in 1969 from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and his doctorate in genetics in 1974 from UNL and UNMC.
Eric Scholar, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Pharmacology and in the Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases. Born in New York City, Dr. Scholar earned his bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from Rutgers in 1961. He earned his doctorate in pharmacology from the University of Illinois-Medical Center in 1967. He came to UNMC in July 1975 as an assistant professor in pharmacology, and he was named an associate professor in 1981. During his tenure, Dr. Scholar has published more than two dozen journal articles and four books, including the book, “The Antimicrobial Drugs,” which he co-authored with William Pratt. His teaching has made a huge impact on campus, as evidenced by his numerous teaching awards. He has embraced new technologies involved with teaching, creating many problem-based learning courses and developing Web sites and Web courses dedicated to education. Along with Rodney Kawahara, Dr. Scholar also developed the Pharmacojeopardy game, which encompasses pharmacology review questions.
Gordon L. Todd, Ph.D., who earned his doctorate in 1972 at the Medical College of Georgia began his academic career teaching anatomy at Creighton University School of Medicine. After three years of successful teaching at Creighton he joined the University of Nebraska School of Medicine in 1975 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Research Associate in the Cardiovascular Center. Promoted and tenured in the Department of Preventive and Stress Medicine and Department of Anatomy in 1981, Dr. Todd became a full-time Associate Professor of Anatomy in what is now the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy in 1986. Dr. Todd has taught anatomy at UNMC for 30 years and histology for 21 years. His interest in technology has led to the successful introduction of virtual microscopy in the histology course and the computerization and development of an Interactive Dissecting Guide in the gross anatomy course.
Gerald “Jay” Moore, M.D., is associate dean for curriculum for the College of Medicine and professor in the section of rheumatology and immunology in the Department of Internal Medicine. He also serves as medical director and professor in the physician assistant program. A native of Lincoln, Neb., Dr. Moore received his medical degree from UNMC in 1971. He did his internal medicine residency at UNMC, a rheumatology externship at Mayo Clinic and a rheumatology fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. He is a member of the Consumer Publications Advisory Board for the Arthritis Foundation and is an external reviewer for the Association of American Medical Colleges’ educational affairs mini-workshops. He also is a volunteer physician for the SHARING Clinic in south Omaha.
Ernest D. Prentice, Ph.D., is the associate vice chancellor for Academic Affairs at UNMC. He also is professor of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy and Professor of Preventive and Societal Medicine. Dr. Prentice has served as co-chair of the UNMC Institutional Review Board (IRB) for over 23 years and served as the co-chair of the UNMC Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) for 12 years. In addition to his scholarly work in the fields of anatomy and medical education, Dr. Prentice is the author of numerous articles on the ethics and regulation of both human and animal research and he is a frequent speaker at meetings on various aspects of research ethics. He serves as a consultant to universities, hospitals and law firms in the private sector. Dr. Prentice is often a member of national panels and writing groups addressing various aspects of research ethics and regulatory oversight of research. He is a member of the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP) council and serves on the Scientist Center for Animal Welfare (SCAW) Board of Trustees. He is also Chairman of the Health and Human Services Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protection (SACHRP).
College of Dentistry
Brian Lange, Ph.D., is chairman and professor in the Department of Dental Practice Management at the UNMC College of Dentistry in Lincoln. He also serves as director of Continuing Education and director of Extramural Programs at the College of Dentistry and is a graduate fellow. Dr. Lange earned a master’s degree at Kansas State University-Pittsburg before earning his doctorate degree in psychology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1980. He has served as a visiting faculty member at Springdale College, University of Birmingham, England, on four occasions. His research interests are the process of dental education, practice management and psychological type. Dr. Lange is an honorary member of Omicron Kappa Upsilon and serves as section officer in the American Dental Education Association.
School of Allied Health Professions
James Temme is an associate professor and associate director of the Division of Radiation Science Technology Education in the School of Allied Health Professions. The Norfolk, Neb., native received his master’s of science degree in public administration from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1984. He also has a bachelor of science in radiologic technology from UNMC. He was on active duty with the U.S. Army from 1967 to 1969, serving one year of duty in the infantry in Vietnam. Since 1973, Temme has served on numerous committees and board positions of state and local professional organizations including the American Society of Radiologic Technologists, the Association of Educators in Radiological Sciences and the Nebraska Society of Radiologic Technologists. He also is a member of the International Society of Radiographers and Radiological Technologists and served as president of the UNMC Faculty Senate in 1997-98.
College of Nursing
Marlene Lindeman is an assistant professor in the Gerontological, Psychosocial, and Community Health Nursing Department at the UNMC College of Nursing. Lindeman received her bachelor’s of science in nursing from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1971 and a master’s of science in nursing as a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist from UNMC College of Nursing in 1980. She also received a graduate certificate with a specialization in gerontology at University of Nebraska in 1987. Since 1996, she has held ANCC (American Nurses Credentialing Center) certification as a clinical nurse specialist in adult psychiatric/mental health nursing. She has taught psychiatric/mental health nursing to undergraduate nursing students in multiple classroom and clinical arenas. Since 1998, she also has had a one-day-a-week faculty practice role as an adult psychiatric/mental health clinical nurse specialist at the Family Health Care Center. Her research has primarily focused on the development and validation of a nursing diagnosis describing the characteristics of the alcoholic family. She is now co-investigator on a research team examining the experience of stigma in consumers with severe and persistent mental illness.
UNMC faculty members who have served 20, 10 and 5 years
McGoogan Library
5 years
- Teresa Hartman
Eppley Institute
5 years
- Kenneth Cowan, M.D., Ph.D.
- Leo Kinarsky, Ph.D.
- Michel Ouellette, Ph.D.
- Magdalene Sgagias, Ph.D.
- Kay-Uwe Wagner, Ph.D.
College of Dentistry
20 years
- Eric Fung. Ph.D.
10 years
- Henry St. Germain Jr., D.M.D.
5 years
- Darrell Ebke, D.D.S.
- William Johnson, D.D.S.
- John Reinhardt, D.D.S.
- Randall Toothaker, D.D.S.
College of Nursing
20 years
- Kathleen Barr, Ph.D.
- Cecilia Barron, Ph.D.
- Kathryn Nickel, Ph.D.
- Carol Ott, Ph.D.
- Cheryl West
- Shirley Wiggins, Ph.D.
10 years
- Barbara Friesth, DNS
- Linda Sather, Ed.D.
- Margaret Wilson, Ph.D.
5 years
- Jeanne Bentz
- Joyce Black, Ph.D.
- Lissa Clark
- Mary Cramer, Ph.D.
- Peggy Menck, Ph.D.
- Sheila Ryan, Ph.D.
College of Pharmacy
10 years
- Alexander Kabanov, Ph.D.
5 years
- Gary Cochran, Pharm.D.
School of Allied Health Professions
20 years
- Patricia Hageman, Ph.D.
- Wayne Stuberg, Ph.D.
10 years
- Martin Cano
- Linda Fell
5 years
- Lisa Bartenhagen
- Janice Flegle
College of Medicine
20 years
- George Casale, Ph.D.
- Carol Casey, Ph.D.
- Andrew Jameton, Ph.D.
- Sonny Johansson, M.D., Ph.D.
- John McClain, Ph.D.
- Byers Shaw Jr., M.D.
- Austin Thompson, M.D.
- John Windle, M.D.
10 years
- Iqbal Ahmad, Ph.D.
- Judith Christman, Ph.D.
- Gerald Groggel, M.D.
- Kristie Hayes, M.D.
- Jeffrey Harrison, M.D.
- Scott Hofmann, M.D.
- Barbara Jackson, Ph.D.
- Amy LaCroix, M.D.
- Carol La Croix, M.D.
- Ming-Fong Lin, Ph.D.
- Judith Mathews, Ph.D.
- Kristine McVea, M.D.
- Deborah Kay Reay, Ph.D.
- Mark Shriver, Ph.D.
5 years
- Zahid Amin, M.D.
- Laura Ball, Ph.D.
- Debora Barnes-Josiah, Ph.D.
- Gregory Bennett, Ph.D.
- Michael Boska, Ph.D.
- Teri Bowman, M.D.
- Mark Carlson, M.D.
- Kenneth Colaric, M.D.
- Michael Crawford, Ph.D.
- Dominick DiMaio, M.D.
- Cheng Du, Ph.D.
- Thomas Freeman, Ph.D.
- James Gigantelli, M.D.
- Frank Graf, O.D.
- Hani Haider, Ph.D.
- Barbara Heywood, M.D.
- Tsuneya Ikezu, M.D., Ph.D.
- Jonathan Jaksha, M.D.
- Jodi Polaha Jones, Ph.D.
- Claudia Kappen, Ph.D.
- Ayyangar Komanduri, Ph.D.
- Naomi Lacy, Ph.D.
- Timothy Larsen, M.D.
- Donald Leopold, M.D.
- Ying Mark J. Ma, Ph.D.
- Thomas Magnuson, M.D.
- Lee Millward, M.D.
- Kelly Molpus, M.D.
- Jennifer Newell, M.D.
- Subbaraya Ramaprasad, Ph.D.
- W. David Robinson, Ph.D.
- J. Michael Salbaum, Ph.D.
- James Sorrell, M.D.
- Douglas Stickle, Ph.D.
- Mark Thomas, Ph.D.
- Guilin Zhan, M.D.
- Weining “Ken” Zhen, M.D.