Research Faculty & Staff

Research Interests:

• Electronic health records research
• Statistics
• Research methods

• Patients: Please call me at
  Durham Outpatient Clinic: 559-7200

  Research Interests:

  • Obesity, diabetes, and their complications
  • Metabolic syndrome
  • Obesity bias
  • Nutrition counseling

Research Interests:

• Preventive medicine
• Women's health care
• Rural medicine
• Smoking cessation

Lizzy Gillespie, MS, MPH, MBA
Research Administrator
Nebraska AHEC Deputy Director
& Program Manager

lizzy.gillespie@unmc.edu

Hannah Christiansen MD
Assistant Professor

Research interests:

• medical education
• social determinants of health
• clinical quality improvement
• ambulatory blood pressure monitoring

Liliana Bronner, MHSA, MBA
Assistant Professor
Clinical Education Manager  

(402) 559-4365
lbronner@unmc.edu

Research interests

• interprofessional education (IPE)
• collaborative group science
• curriculum management and implementation
  • educational enrichment strategies
  • health science outreach and interventions
• minority health disparities

Melanie Menning, MD, MPH
Associate Residency Program Director - Urban Underserved
Assistant Professor
OneWorld Community Health Center Assistant Medical Director
- Residency Clinic

• Evaluating and addressing health disparties
• Immigrant and refugee health
• I have a MPH in Community Oriented Primary Care and utilize these skills to explore problems identified within the clinical setting at a popualation and community level. 
• Many of my projects partner with community members and in particular one of our local Federally Qualified Health Centers.

Research Interests: 

• Sports Medicine
• Medical Education