Editor’s Note: Since late January, four additional members — Laura Flores, Lani Zimmerman, PhD, and Aaron Yoder, PhD, Laura Bilek, PhD, and Emily McElroy — have joined the search committee, bringing the total number on the committee to 29. Their names have been added to the full list below.
A 29-member committee has been formed to begin a formal search for UNMC’s new vice chancellor for research.
UNMC’s Ken Cowan, MD, PhD, director and physician-in-chief of the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center and the Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases, will chair the search committee, which includes representation from the medical center and the University of Nebraska System.
The committee is charged with finding a successor for Jennifer Larsen, MD, who in December announced she would step away from her role once her replacement was identified, likely by June 30. Dr. Larsen has led UNMC’s research enterprise since 2011 and will remain the UNMC Degen Professor of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, a position she has held since 1987.
In addition to Dr. Cowan, search committee members include:
- Ann Anderson Berry, MD, PhD, executive director, Child Health Research Institute
- Michael Ash, MD, vice chancellor for information and technology for UNMC and vice president and chief transformation officer for Nebraska Medicine
- Bob Bartee, vice chancellor for external relations, UNMC
- Raymond Bergan, MD, deputy director of the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center and Bill Bures and Jerry Pabst Chair in Cancer Research at UNMC
- Laura Bilek, PhD, associate dean for research, UNMC College of Allied Health Professions
- Brad Britigan, MD, dean, UNMC College of Medicine
- Brandy Clarke, PhD, director of equity and associate professor of psychology, UNMC Munroe-Meyer Institute
- Dele Davies, MD, senior vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean for graduate studies, UNMC
- Michael Dixon, PhD, president and CEO, UNeMed
- Laura Flores, MD-PhD scholar
- Harris Frankel, MD, chief medical officer, Nebraska Medicine
- Howard Fox, MD, PhD, senior associate dean for research, UNMC College of Medicine
- Howard Gendelman, MD, chair, UNMC Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience
- Corey Hopkins, PhD, professor, UNMC Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- David Jackson, PhD, vice provost, University of Nebraska System
- Susan Kraft Mann, interim vice chancellor for business, finance and business development and interim leader of human resources, UNMC
- Chris Kratochvil, MD, associate vice chancellor for clinical research, UNMC
- Emily McElroy, dean, McGoogan Health Sciences Library
- Rod Markin, MD, PhD, executive director of UNeTech
- Karoly Mirnics, MD, PhD, director of the UNMC Munroe-Meyer Institute
- Aaron Mohs, PhD, UNMC Faculty Senate president and associate professor, UNMC Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Carl Smith, MD, chair, UNMC Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Sheritta Strong, MD, assistant vice chancellor of inclusion, UNMC
- Natalie Sturd, UNMC Student Senate representative
- James Wahl, PhD, interim chair, department of oral biology, UNMC College of Dentistry
- Aaron Yoder, PhD, associate professor, UNMC Department of Environmental, Agricultural and Environmental Health, College of Public Health
- Lani Zimmerman, PhD, professor in the UNMC College of Nursing Lincoln Division
- Anne Bowen, senior assistant to the chancellor and search committee support, UNMC
The search committee will be charged by Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, with finding a successor and will meet frequently to discuss next steps, including reviewing and formalizing a position description, identifying a national search firm and creating a webpage related to the search.