• 1919 - The Society for the Relief of the Disabled formed a new charity dedicated to providing therapy and braces to children impacted by the polio epidemic.
• 1922 - founded as the Hattie Baker Munroe Home for Convalescing Crippled Children.
• 1997 - The Meyer Rehabilitation Institute (MRI) and the Hattie B. Munroe Pavilion become the Munroe-Meyer Institute (MMI) for Genetics & Rehabilitation.
• 2009 - MMI becomes an academic unit of UNMC.

For more information about the history of MMI, go to our History section.

• 14 Departments; approximately 500 employees.
• One of 67 Federally designated University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service (UCEDD) and one of 52 Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) programs.
• National Institute of Health (NIH) funded Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) supporting the development and evaluation of partnerships between biomedical scientists, science educators and community leaders that improve K-12 student and public understanding of the health sciences.
• Recipient of Human Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) grant to establish and support creation of over 40 primary care behavioral health integrated clinics across Nebraska.
• Five supporting philanthropic boards: MMI Board of Directors, Hattie B. Munroe Foundation, Meyer Foundation for Disabilities, Munroe-Meyer Guild, Scottish Rite Foundations of Nebraska.
• Greater than $40M yearly budget, more than $16M in federal, state grants and contracts, in excess of $2.2M/year in philanthropy.

• More than 70,000 yearly services serving clients across the lifespan (75% takes place in the community).
• More than 40 provider locations across the state (more than 30 outside Omaha).
• More than 50 types of services provided:
  • Academic and educational interventions
  • Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
  • Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
  • Autism care for toddlers
  • Behavioral health services
  • Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) treatment
  • Community education
  • Developmental medicine
  • Early intervention
  • Family resources
  • Feeding and swallowing services
  • Genetics evaluation
  • Genetic counseling
  • Genetic testing
  • Motion analysis
  • Neonatal intensive care follow-up
  • Occupational therapy
  • Physical therapy
  • Recreational therapy
  • Rehabilitation services
  • Severe behavior services
  • Social skills services
  • Speech language pathology
• 22 recreational therapy programs and clubs serving more than 500 families.
• Volunteers in excess of 440 providing 13,600 service hours.
• Laboratory tests:
  • Nearly 50,000 clinical genetics tests performed in 2018.
  • More than 130 genetic tests have been provided to 49 states nationwide and to four international locations.

• Involved in education of medical students, residents, fellows, interns, allied health professionals, PhD and MS students, college and high school students.
• More than 9,000 participants in workshops, conferences, teleconferences and other community education activities in domestic and international forums in 2018.
• 133 long-term trainees (doctoral, masters, interns).
• Interdisciplinary training in 2018: 184 students, interns, residents and post-doctoral fellows for a total of 211,749 hours.
• Over 3,600 long term students received training at MMI in the last seventeen years.
• Students from over 40 universities and colleges nationwide.
• More than 100 courses and seminars taught by our faculty.
• Approximately 40 faculty involved, clinical and translational research activities.
• More than 150 clinical and research fellows were trained at MMI in the last fifteen years.
• More than $7M in federal research funding annually.

• Annually more than 90 technical assistance services (1,846 hours) to community partners in LEND & UCEDD alone.
• Approximately 80 Community training activities (9,056 participants/606 hours) in LEND & UCEDD.

For a more in-depth view about MMI now, read further.

Karoly Mirnics, MD, Ph.D. – Director of MMI; 402-559-5702

Wayne A. Stuberg, PT, Ph.D., FAPTA - Associate Director of MMI and Director of Clinical Affairs, 402-559-5720

For general inquires or feedback, please email MMI.