Governance
The College of Medicine is one of six colleges, two institutes and a graduate studies program at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
UNMC is one of four campuses in the University of Nebraska system. Central Administration is located in Lincoln, Nebraska. The university system is governed by a Board of Regents elected by voters.
University of Nebraska
Governing Bodies
Mission and Planning
Faculty Council
The Committee’s charge includes:
- Consider any matters pertaining to governance or administration brought before it by the Faculty, the Dean, a Standing or Special Committee, or by one of the members of the Faculty Council.
- Establish administrative policies and procedures and coordinate their
implementation. - Recommend to the Dean administrative and management long-range plans and objectives for the College of Medicine, especially as regards organization,
programs and facilities. - Coordinate and implement all policies adopted by the General Faculty.
- Supervise and coordinate the activities of the Standing and Special Committees.
- Receive, consider, and transmit to the General Faculty reports of the Standing
and Special Committees. - Develop agenda for Faculty meetings in conference with the Dean.
- Establish special committees as needed.
- Annually review updates and carry out Mission, Vision and Values
Nine Standing Committees
Continuing Medical Education Committee
The Committee’s charge includes:
- Developing and recommending policies relating to the Continuing Medical Education programs of the College.
- Assisting in the identification of Continuing Medical Education needs of the constituency of the College.
- Evaluating the purposes, objectives and content of all Continuing Medical Education programs sponsored by the College and its departments and, where appropriate, accrediting the programs as approved. Issuing
Continuing Medical Education credit to participants of approved programs. - Assisting in the evaluation of Faculty who participate in the presentation of Continuing Medical Education programs.
- Developing and recommending an overall plan for Continuing Medical Education on an annual basis.
- Developing and recommending policies relating to the University of Nebraska College of Medicine Continuing Medical Education programs involving off-campus activities.
Faculty Grievance Committee
The Committee’s charge includes:
- Recommending policy pertaining to the study and resolution of Faculty grievances to the General Faculty.
- Investigating and conducting hearings on specific grievances of a Faculty member or members per Dean’s request. Recommendations for action from Faculty Grievance Committee will be communicated to the Dean. Appeals of the Dean’s decisions may be made to the UNMC Faculty Senate
Grievance Committee.
Faculty Promotion and Tenure Committee
The Committee's charge includes:
- Recommending policy pertaining to Faculty promotion and tenure to the
General Faculty. - Receiving from department chair recommendations for promotion and/or
tenure of respective Faculty members. - Submitting recommendations on promotion and/or tenure on specific
Faculty members to the Dean.
Finance Committee
The Committee’s charge includes:
- Evaluate all financial policies and procedures for COM.
- Recommend to Dean any changes or additions to Financial Policy Procedures for COM.
- Evaluate and recommend funding strategies as requested by the Dean.
- College of Medicine Compensation Policy oversight.
- Review and approve Dean’s state allocation formula.
Graduate Medical Education Committee
The Committee’s charge includes:
- Overseeing, studying, evaluating, and recommending changes to the institutional graduate medical education program, including size, scope and distribution of specialty training.
- Proposing policies that will enable program directors to meet accreditation standards in all specialties
- Monitoring the availability of internal and external resources necessary to support Graduate Medical Education.
- Providing a liaison between the institutional Graduate Medical Education program and the House Officer organization.
Medical Student Admissions Committee
The Committee’s charge includes:
- Recommending to the Faculty policies regarding prerequisites, admissions standards and admission procedures for medical student applications.
- Selecting entering classes.
- Considering applicants and selecting students for advanced standing from other centers of medical education.
Medical Student Curriculum Committee
The Committee’s charge includes:
- Recommending to the Faculty policies and plans regarding medical student
curriculum. - Oversight of the development and implementation as well as evaluation of
the curriculum. - Recommending curriculum changes
Medical Student Evaluation Committee
The Committee’s charge includes:
- Recommending to the Faculty policies and plans regarding scholastic evaluation.
- Recommending policies regarding the evaluation of student performance.
- Reviewing student performance and making recommendations regarding student advancement and graduation.
- Determining eligibility of students to repeat courses or to undertake special educational activities.
- Developing and recommending a mechanism to hear appeals from students regarding student performance evaluations.
- Recommending policies governing the selection of candidates for awards, fellowships, research positions, or honors where authority for such nominations is not elsewhere specified.
- Nominating candidates for awards, fellowships, research positions, or honors, where authority for such nominations is not elsewhere specified.
Research and Development Committee
The Committee’s charge includes:
- To monitor the progress of the M.D./Ph.D. Scholars Program.
- Recommend policies and procedures for preparation of applications for and receipt of grants by the Faculty of the College of Medicine.
- Advise the Dean on the allocation of intramural funds for research.
- Administer summer research program(s) for medical students.
- Receive and review applications and recommend to the Dean research awards to be funded by the COM.
- Receive and review thesis research proposals and advise the Scholastic Evaluation Committee on the acceptability of M.D. thesis for Honors designation.
- Advise the Dean on strategies for continuous improvement of the research environment.
Council Membership
Bradley Britigan, MD, dean
Clinical Department Chairs
- Aviva Abosch, MD
- Sam Bierner, MD
- Charles Enke, MD
- Kevin Garvin, MD
- Jeff Harrison, MD
- Dwight Jones, MD
- Joseph Khoury, MD
- Ron Krueger, MD
- Steve Lisco, MD
- Howard Liu, MD
- David Mercer, MD
- Matt Rizzo, MD
- Debra Romberger, MD
- Kari Simonsen, MD
- Carl Smith, MD
- Mike Wadman, MD
- Craig Walker, MD
- Ashley Wysong, MD
Basic Science Chairs
- Vimla Band, PhD
- Surinder Batra, PhD
- Howard Gendelman, MD
- Rebekah Gundry, PhD
- Joseph Khoury, MD
Elected Members
- Sheila Ellis, MD
- Karen Gould, PhD
- Trek Langenhan, MD
- Kimberly Latacha, PhD
- Lynn Mack, MD
- Travis McCumber, PhD