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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, “The Climb to World-Class.” Awards will be presented to the following four faculty members:
- Angie Rizzino, Ph.D. — UNMC Outstanding Mentor of Graduate Students Award;
- Mary Helms — Spirit of Community Service Award; and
- Lynn Mack-Shipman, M.D., and William Lydiatt, M.D., — Outstanding Teacher Awards.
Profiles of the award recipients can be found in the UNMC Today online archives. In addition, three faculty will be recognized for receiving University-wide Awards. They include:
- Steven Hinrichs, M.D. — Innovation, Development and Entrepreneurship Award;
- Alexander “Sasha” Kabanov, Ph.D. — Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award; and
- Paul Larsen, M.D. — Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award
Faculty members who have worked at UNMC for 40, 30, 20 and 10 years also will be recognized. They include:
40 yearsEdward “Ted” Roche, Ph.D., earned undergraduate and masters degrees in pharmacy and medicinal chemistry at Butler University. After earning a Ph.D. in medicinal chemistry in 1966 from The Ohio State University, he joined the faculty at the University of Nebraska College of Pharmacy in Lincoln. While on the Lincoln campus, Dr. Roche taught professional and graduate courses in medicinal chemistry and developed a research program on the chemistry of drug interactions with opiate receptors. In addition to numerous research papers, Dr. Roche co-authored a textbook in Inorganic Medicinal Chemistry and edited two symposium volumes on prodrugs and bioreversible carriers in drug design. In 1980, four years after the College of Pharmacy moved to the UNMC campus, Dr. Roche was appointed assistant dean for academic affairs moving to associate dean in 1984. In his administrative capacity, he was involved in the College of Pharmacy’s educational reform process, curriculum development and programmatic assessment. He also developed an interview program to aid the admissions process. After 23 years, Dr. Roche resigned from his administrative position in 2003 and returned full-time to the College of Pharmacy faculty where he is once again teaching medicinal chemistry. Dr. Roche holds memberships in a number of national organizations and has served in leadership roles in several of them including chairman of the Chemistry Section of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, chairman of the Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry Section of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists and chairman of the Omaha Section of the American Chemical Society.
30 years
Curtis Kuster, D.D.S., is assistant dean for admissions and student affairs and professor in the department of growth and development at the UNMC College of Dentistry in Lincoln. He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska and a D.D.S. from the University of Nebraska College of Dentistry in 1971. After several years in public health dentistry in Wisconsin and Vermont, he returned to the College of Dentistry and completed a pediatric dentistry program receiving a certificate in pediatric dentistry and a master’s degree in 1977. He joined the College of Dentistry faculty at that time. He has received a UNMC Outstanding Teaching Award. He is a member of Omicron Kappa Upsilon (the national dental honor society). He served as that organization’s Supreme Chapter president. He is a fellow in the American College of Dentists, the International College of Dentists and the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry.
Pamela Miya, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the UNMC College of Nursing Parent/Child, Administration, Education, and Science Department. Born in Lafayette, Ind. Dr. Miya earned her undergraduate degrees in nursing at Purdue University, her master’s degree in nursing at Indiana University and her doctorate in post-secondary educational administration at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is serving as chairwoman of the American Nurses Association Center for Ethics and Human Rights Advisory Board, chairwoman of the Affinity Group Committee of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) and is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. She has served as a council and board member of the Society for Health and Human Values (SHHV) and ASBH respectively. Dr. Miya has been recognized by receiving an Outstanding Alumnus Award from Purdue’s Nursing Alumni Organization and the SHHV Service Award. Her research focus is in ethics. She has published in peer-reviewed nursing and ethics journals and has served as co-editor for a textbook, “Ethics in Mental Health Practice.” Her community service activities include volunteering with the Heartland Equine Therapeutic Riding Academy (HETRA), working with challenged children and adults on horseback and adoption counseling at the Nebraska Humane Society.Terrence Lawson, Ph.D., will be recognized for 30 years of service at the Eppley Institute.
- 20 years
College of Dentistry
- Thomas Petro, Ph.D.
College of Medicine
- William Burke, M.D.
- William Chaney, Ph.D.
- Nora Chapman, Ph.D.
- Peter Coccia, M.D.
- David Danford, M.D.
- Paul Esposito, M.D.
- William Haire, M.D.
- Rodney Markin, M.D., Ph.D.
- Samuel Pirruccello, M.D.
- William Roccaforte, M.D.
- James Shull, Ph.D.
- Steven Tracy, Ph.D.
- Cynthia Van Riper
- Phyllis Warkentin, M.D.
College of Pharmacy
- Dennis Robinson, Ph.D.
McGoogan Library of Medicine
- Nancy Woelfl, Ph.D.
- 10 years
College of Medicine
- Gregory Babbe, M.D.
- Surinder Batra, Ph.D.
- Teresa Berg, M.D.
- Joel Bessmer, M.D.
- Gay Canaris, M.D.
- Kaye Carstens, M.D.
- Kevin Corley, M.D.
- Sheila Ellis, M.D.
- James Eudy, Ph.D.
- Anuja Ghorpade, Ph.D.
- Glen Ginsburg, M.D.
- Perry Johnson, M.D.
- Lynn Mack-Shipman, M.D.
- Edward O’Leary, M.D.
- Steven Sansom, Ph.D.
- Jean Simonson, M.D.
- Marvin Stancil, M.D.
- Joseph Stothert, Jr., M.D., Ph.D.
- Debra Sudan, M.D.
- John Tinker, M.D.
- Jialin Zheng, M.D.
College of Nursing
- Ann Malone Berger, Ph.D.
- Linda Bull
College of Pharmacy
- Tatiana Bronich, Ph.D.
- Luis Marky, Ph.D.
College of Public Health
- Virginia Aita, Ph.D.
- James Lynch, Ph.D.
- Keith Mueller, Ph.D.
Eppley Institute
- Robert Lahue, Ph.D.
School of Allied Health Professions
- Darwin Brown
- Karen Honeycutt
- Ulrike Otten
- Five years
College of Nursing
- Rebecca Keating-Lefler, Ph.D.
- Janet Nieveen, Ph.D.
- Natalie Rasmussen, Ph.D.
College of Pharmacy
- Peter Kador, Ph.D.
Eppley Institute
- Guangshun Wang, Ph.D.
- Ying Yan, Ph.D.
Library of Medicine
- Cynthia Schmidt, M.D.
School of Allied Health
- Kimberly Michael
- Sam Sanderson, Ph.D.
College of Medicine
- Thomas Attard, M.D.
- Christopher Erickson, M.D.
- Gale Etherton, M.D.
- Alison Freifeld, M.D.
- Brian Finley, M.D.
- John Halgren, M.D.
- Ralph Hauke, M.D.
- George Hemstreet, M.D.
- Jason Johanning, M.D.
- Fereydoon Namavar, Sc.D.
- Nils Nystrom, M.D., Ph.D.
- Dmitry Oleynikov, M.D.
- Huiling Pang, M.D., Ph.D.
- Sushakumari Pillai
- Debra Ann Reilly, M.D.
- William Rizzo, M.D.
- Fedja Rochling, M.D.
- Aaron Sasson, M.D.
- Toby Schonfeld, Ph.D.
- Michael Shambaugh-Miller, Ph.D.
- Toshimichi Shinohara, Ph.D.
- Sanjay Singh, M.D.
- R. Brian Stevens, M.D., Ph.D.
- Paul Tomich, M.D.
- Clarivet Torres, M.D.
- Rachel Valleley, Ph.D.
- Lucile Wrenshall, M.D., Ph.D.
- Wanfen Xiong, M.D., Ph.D.