The Office of Academic Affairs is dedicated to providing the best educational programs to help improve the future of health care in Nebraska and beyond. The programs overseen by H. Dele Davies, MD, senior vice chancellor for academic affairs, include:

• Asia Pacific Rim Development Program

  Provides a unique partnership with China that includes research collaborations, faculty and student exchanges, and enhanced education in both countries

• Graduate Studies

  Provides, promotes and enhances the highest quality graduate education in health science, offering Master's and Doctor of Philosophy degrees

• High School Alliance

  Allows high school students to observe, shadow, and take college-level classes from UNMC's physicians, researchers and health care professionals

• Interactive E-Learning Program

  Offers faculty and students the opportunity to create innovative e-modules blended with interactive classroom activities that maximize critical thinking

• Interprofessional Education

  Allows students from different professions across colleges to learn and work together in order to optimize their unique strengths and increase the quality of care for their patients

• Interprofessional Experiential Center for Enduring Learning (iEXCEL)

  Promotes experiential learning by incorporating a wide range of simulation and visualization technologies into health care education, training and research

• Postdoctoral Education

  Provides training opportunities in different areas of biomedical sciences including cancer biology, nano and regenerative medicine, with an emphasis on translation research

• Summer Health Professions Education Program

  Offers freshman and sophomore college students intensive and personalized medical and dental school preparation

• Summer Undergraduate Research Program

  Provides summer opportunities for undergraduate students to become members of research teams and discover first-hand the broad spectrum of research activities occurring at UNMC

• Other Pipeline Programs

  Includes outreach to rural areas in Nebraska as well as exposing elementary, middle and high school students to careers in the heath sciences