Quick Facts

• 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 550 employees.
• One of 67 Federally designated University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service (UCEDD).
• 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; and
  • Scottish Rite Foundations of Nebraska.
• Greater than $42M yearly budget, more than $19M in federal, state grants and contracts, in excess of $3.7M/year in philanthropy.

• More than 80,000 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
  • Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) treatment
  • Behavioral health services
  • Community education
  • Dental
  • Developmental medicine
  • Early intervention
  • Family resources
  • Feeding and swallowing services
  • Genetic evaluation
  • Genetic counseling
  • Genetic testing
  • Health & Wellness
  • Motion analysis
  • Neonatal intensive care follow-up
  • Occupational therapy
  • Physical therapy
  • Recreational therapy
  • Rehabilitation services
  • Severe behavior services
  • Social skills services
  • Speech language pathology
  • Vision
• 24 recreational therapy programs and clubs serving more than 450 families.
• Volunteers in excess of 440 providing 13,600 service hours.
• Laboratory tests:
  • Nearly 65,400 clinical genetics tests performed in 2020.
  • More than 130 genetic tests have been provided to 45 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 10,000 participants in workshops, conferences, teleconferences and other community education activities in domestic and international forums in 2020.
• 133 long-term trainees (doctoral, masters, interns).
• Interdisciplinary training in 2020: 147 students, interns, residents and post-doctoral fellows for a total of 211,749 hours.
• Over 3,500 long term students received training at MMI in the last seventeen years.
• Students from over 40 universities and colleges nationwide.
• More than 130 courses and seminars taught by our faculty.
• Approximately 40 faculty involved, clinical and translational research activities.
• More than 140 clinical and research fellows were trained at MMI in the last fifteen years.
• More than $7.5M in federal research funding annually.

• Annually more than 2,186 technical assistance service hours to community partners in LEND and UCEDD alone.
• Approximately 75 community training activities (4,633 participants) in LEND and UCEDD.

Karoly Mirnics, MD, PhD – Director, UNMC Munroe-Meyer Institute
402-559-5702  |  Email Dr. Mirnics

Amy Nordness, PhD, CCC-SLP - Director, Clinical Affairs at UNMC Munroe-Meyer Institute
402-559-6651  |  Email Dr. Nordness

For general inquires or feedback, please email the Munroe-Meyer Institute.