Pediatric News
Updates from the Department of Pediatrics
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Congratulations to Pediatrics Faculty
Receiving Promotions and Tenure
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Melissa Acquazzino, MD - Associate Professor
Jason Burrows, MD - Associate Professor
Nagrendra Chaturvedi - Assistant Professor
Jason Christensen, MD - Associate Professor
Jeffrey Delaney, MD - Professor
Cynthia Ellis, MD - Professor
Nathaniel Goodrich, MD - Associate Professor
Sidharth Mahapatra, MD - Associate Professor
Lauren Maskin, MD - Associate Professor
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Arwa Nasir, MBBS - Professor
Kari Neemann, MD - Associate Professor
Bridget Norton, MD - Associate Professor
Laura Ortmann, MD - Associate Professor
Sachit Patel, MD - Associate Professor
Eric Peeples, MD - Associate Professor
Lisa Sieczkowski, MD - Associate Professor
Joseph Snow, MD - Associate Professor
Hahn Vo, MD - Associate Professor
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Five Things You Should Know about iEXCEL at the Davis Global Center |
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- iEXCEL offers the opportunity for hands-on educational experiences for physicians and physician trainees. There are a nearly limitless number of training scenarios available through the physical and virtual resources of the iEXCEL program. The iEXCEL team welcome the opportunity to meet with you to understand how their current offerings can be employed to enhance your lessons and to discuss how unique resources or training modules can be designed for your program.
- Physicians and faculty are encouraged to partner with iEXCEL’s team of visualization professionals to create digital resources to supplement your curriculum and empower learners to see what is being taught. iEXCEL creates highly accurate 3D medical content that is platform-agnostic, deployable as AR/VR and holographic content.
- iEXCEL includes replicated clinics, hospitals and ambulatory and home care units for simulating patient care scenarios. Every point of the patient’s journey, from home, to hospital, to home again, is represented in the on-site facilities at iEXCEL.
- Surgical skills procedure rooms/operating bays at iEXCEL are equipped with fresh tissue simulation for practicing high-level, complex patient care procedures. This is just one of countless areas where iEXCEL provides the opportunity to practice life-saving treatments. The impact of this training is incalculable.
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The website and video below are a good way to get an understanding of how iEXCEL uses technology, collaboration and communication to advance medical care. For the next step, you are encouraged to schedule an appointment with an iEXCEL staff member to discover the best match of their offerings with your training needs.
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"Before iEXCEL opened in the Davis Global Center, we had a small simulation room in the hospital to use. In the new center, we have a great space and room to discuss the neonatal resuscitation steps and then practice the skills with high-tech simulation dolls.
With these high-tech simulation dolls, learners are able to get feedback on their positive pressure ventilation. The entire scenarios allow residents to practice very high-risk situations that happen very rarely, in order to be best be prepared when they do."
Courtney McLean, MD, assistant professor, Division of Neonatology
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"The equipment at iEXCEL is really state of the art and allows us to demonstrate care techniques and provide the students with hands-on practice before they start seeing real patients."
Katherine MacKrell, MD, assistant professor, Division of Hospital Medicine
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Kari Simonsen, MD, chair, UNMC Department of Pediatrics |
Department of Pediatrics Chair Update:
Kari Simonsen, MD, MBA
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It’s been another busy month for our faculty in the UNMC Department of Pediatrics! I’d like to start off by celebrating our 17 faculty members who were recently promoted in academic rank. This represents the most pediatric faculty who have achieved advancement in a single year. I would also like to express my appreciation and gratitude for the many faculty members who have helped ensure the success of others, including Suzanne Haney, MD, and Chris Erickson, MD, who provided individual feedback for faculty preparedness for the promotions process. I’m also thankful for the insightful support of our Pediatric Department Promotion and Tenure Committee members. The committee reviewed the promotion dossiers, provided feedback and recommendations on whether faculty met the university criteria and gave faculty the opportunity to revise language and information within their packets to better outline their academic productivity, before the information was reviewed at the university committee level. These efforts combined to help our faculty succeed. Kudos to all!
As we begin our new academic year, the upcoming promotions cycle has begun, with new guidance outlined by the UNMC College of Medicine. The biggest change in the revised guidelines is an alternative pathway at the Associate Professor level. Now faculty can reach the Associate Professor level by a focus-emphasis means, by meeting Level 3 criteria in a single domain. The traditional dual-emphasis pathway to promotion by meeting Level 2 criteria in two domains remains open to faculty. Both pathways require Level 1 competency in the remaining domains.
I’m hopeful that as the new academic year begins, each faculty member will take a few minutes to update their own CV, to review the new information from UNMC and to consider their own career trajectories. If rank advancement is something you’d like to learn more about, please reach out to your chief, division colleagues, peers and mentors. You are also welcome to reach out to Drs. Erickson, Haney, or myself, if you have additional questions on the process.
In addition, please find the detailed guidelines and an SBAR with further explanation as attachments. This link will also provide useful information.
Kari
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Our Successes:
Department Celebrations
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The Department of Pediatrics shares accomplishments, publications and appointments. |
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This month we feature Stacey Powers, a Children's employee who serves as Senior Administrative Assistant, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, and Divine Shelton, Senior Public Health Project Coordinator in the Child Health Policy Division.
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Stacey and her husband in the Bahamas |
Stacey Powers:
What brought you to your given specialty/role?
I have been in an administrative assistant position for over 20 years. Before that I spent 10 years as a telephone account service rep for a credit union. Helping people face to face seemed like the next natural step for my career.
What’s your favorite place in the world?
The Bahamas – I love the Caribbean life.
What are you a fan of or very interested in?
Baseball – I'm a New York Yankees fan, even though we are the most hated professional team 😊.
Is there any medicine-based book, music or TV series or movie that you admire and would recommend to others? Or anything outside of the medical world that you recommend?
I really like CSI (Las Vegas) and NCIS (original and NCIS LA).
What was the most important lesson taught to you during your career training?
Always look on the bright side. Not every day is going to be a good day and some days can be quite challenging, but I always look for the silver lining. And I try to use the challenging days as a way to grow both personally and professionally.
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Divine at the Xunantunich, Mayan ruin in Belize
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Divine Shelton
What brought you to your given specialty/role?
Well, I had worked for an elected official and a large housing non-profit in St. Louis after graduate school. I was beginning a career in public administration and public policy. My young sister was expecting a child, so I felt it was a good time to move home closer to family and prepare to become an uncle, which more than two years later, I do enjoy. The interesting thing about this life change is that now I work for an organization dedicated to maternal and child health; more specifically, I am the lead coordinator for an initiative that addresses infant health issues…. such is life.
What’s your favorite place in the world?
Climbing atop Xunantunich, a Mayan ruin in Belize, was a very emotional and spiritual moment for me, and I would have to say it's my favorite place in the world.
What are you a fan of or very interested in?
Well, anyone who knows me knows I adore Frank Sinatra, the music, the movies, the style! I am a huge Denver Broncos and St. Louis Cardinals fan. I am also a political buff; I love public policy and talking about it.
Is there any medicine-based book, music or TV series or movie that you admire and would recommend to others? Or anything outside of the medical world that you recommend?
Well, it is not medical-based, but the HBO series The Wire is the best show ever made. It weaves the issues of urban America, including politics, law enforcement, public schooling and media. And it does an exceptional job of showing the deep socioeconomic issues we at CityMatCH work to address, all while being highly entertaining.
What was the most important lesson taught to you during your medical training?
I would say that the most important lesson I learned is to keep your reputation and good name clean; it follows you and enters the room well before you do.
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Staff Milestones:
Recent Service Anniversaries
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Congratulations to those celebrating recent work anniversaries. We wish you all the best for continued success! |
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Years of Service:
Cynthia Colpitts - 20 years, AS
Angela Boettner, BSN, RN, CCRC
- 12 years
Victoria Nakibuuka-Muli, MPA, MPH(c) - 8 years
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Mary Kristina Bowder, AAS - 6 years
Kelly Erickson, MPH - 4 years
Namood E. Sahra, PhD - 2 years
Miranda Downing, GME - 2 years
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CHRI Seminar Series
Accelerated Aging in Childhood and Young Adult Cancer
Special Guest Speaker: Andrew Smitherman, MD, MSc - UNC Health
July 16, 2021 | Zoom | To receive Zoom information, please contact chri@unmc.edu.
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University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics
982155 Nebraska Medicine
Omaha, NE 68198-2155
402-559-6400
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