The University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Board of Counselors elected officers for 2009 at its recent annual board meeting. Officers are: Rick Kolkman, chairperson, North Platte; and Don Goldstein, vice chairperson, Omaha. Kolkman is president of First National Bank of North Platte. Goldstein is with Penske Truck Leasing in Omaha.
The group welcomed nine new members at the meeting held at the Sorrell Center for Health Science Education on the UNMC campus in Omaha.
New board members by hometown are:
Blair – S. Michael Jensen, CEO of Great Plains Communications, Inc.;
Grand Island – William Armstrong, investment planner with Edward Jones;
Lincoln – Angela L. Muhleisen, CEO and president, Union Bank and Trust Co.; Lisa Smith, former chair, Lincoln Juvenile Diabetes Chapter;
Omaha – Robert Belgrade, partner of Belgrade Company; Curt Hofer, residential and commercial builder and developer, Jasper Stone Properties; Christopher P. Kirchner, vice president, corporate affairs, ConAgra Foods, Inc., and president, ConAgra Foundation; Natalia J. Peart, Ph.D., CEO of YWCA Omaha;
North Platte – Lorre McKeone, president of The Executive Extra.
Other members of the UNMC Board of Counselors and their hometowns are:
Aurora – Jason Schneider;
Blair – Donna Mahlendorf;
Cambridge – Dick Shoemaker;
Chadron – G. Richard Meyers;
Columbus – Tony Raimondo;
Fremont – Ray Somberg;
Gordon – Joel Hutchins, M.D.;
Grand Island – Tammy Allen and Ralph Bradley;
Hastings – Bob Allen and Jan Scherr;
Holdrege – Terry Krohn and Roy Pearson;
Lincoln – Mary Bills-Strand, Marshall Borchert, Charlie Calhoun, Maurice Cox, Jr., Susan Gourley, Marilyn Harris, Liz Koop, JoAnn Martin, Tonn Ostergard, Patty Pansing Brooks, and Donna Woods;
Loomis – Russ Edeal;
Norfolk – Jay Knobbe, Brandon Theophilus, and Kent Warneke;
North Platte – Frederick E. Mattox and Cindy Way;
Omaha – Tawanna Black, Henry Davis, Thomas D. Gensler, Ivan Gilreath, Sandy Goodman, Ted Hazer, Wesley Hutcherson, Larry Kavich, Fred Licon, Jr., Steve McWhorter, Barbara Musselman, Cyndy Peacock, M.D., Pamela H. Snow, Maria Valentin, Maria Vazquez, and Tracy Zaiss;
Scottsbluff – David Bartlett;
Sidney – Linda Shoemaker;
Valentine – Joannie Shephard;
Wayne – Rod Tompkins; and
West Point – Dave Wimmer
The UNMC Board of Counselors is a group of 62 community and business leaders from across the state who advise UNMC Chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D., on health care issues of importance.
UNMC is the only public health science center in the state. Its educational programs are responsible for training more health professionals practicing in Nebraska than any other institution. Through their commitment to education, research, patient care and outreach, UNMC and its hospital partner, The Nebraska Medical Center, have established themselves as one of the country’s leading centers in cancer, transplantation biology, bioterrorism preparedness, neurodegenerative diseases, cardiovascular diseases, genetics, biomedical technology and ophthalmology. UNMC’s research funding from external sources now exceeds $82 million annually and has resulted in the creation of more than 2,600 highly skilled jobs in the state. UNMC’s physician practice group, UNMC Physicians, includes 513 physicians in 50 specialties and subspecialties who practice primarily in The Nebraska Medical Center. For more information, go to UNMC’s Web site at www.unmc.edu.