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UNMC highlights military partnerships, veteran clinics and biocontainment training
Summary
Interim Chancellor Deli Davis told the Board of Regents about UNMC’s Department of Defense partnerships — including family-medicine residency ties to Offutt Air Force Base, the IPAP physician‑assistant program, C‑STARS/Sea Stars Omaha embedding military clinicians, DOD-funded research projects, and veteran dental clinics serving hundreds of vets.
Interim Chancellor Deli Davis told the Board of Regents on Oct. 3 that the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) maintains extensive partnerships with the Department of Defense, the Nebraska National Guard and the VA to train military clinicians and support national medical readiness.
Davis described a family‑medicine residency run jointly with Offutt Air Force Base, the inter‑service physician assistant (IPAP) program (a University of Nebraska degree), and a long‑running DOD training relationship that renews every five years. She said more than 3,000 physician assistants have been trained via UNMC programs over the past 30 years and that UNMC currently supports dozens of DOD‑funded research projects addressing protective drugs, cancer therapies and combat‑injury treatments.
Davis highlighted C‑STARS/Sea Stars Omaha, programs that embed Air Force and now Nebraska National Guard clinicians on campus to maintain biocontainment and transport skills. She said Sea Stars Omaha has expanded its team, that Guard members are now embedded shoulder‑to‑shoulder with Air Force clinicians and Nebraska Medicine staff, and that the program supports training and research on aeromedical transport devices and biocontainment care.
UNMC’s partnerships extend to the Nebraska Iowa VA (62 faculty providing clinical care there, she said), and the College of Dentistry’s veteran dental clinics in Lincoln that have treated more than 300 veterans to date. Davis also noted UNMC’s role in the National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NITEC) consortium, which received more than $60 million in federal funding, and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation cooperative agreement that supports work with Uniformed Services University.
Davis said these collaborations provide clinical training opportunities for students and researchers and underpin UNMC’s role as a clinical‑readiness hub for military and civilian responses to public‑health emergencies.
The board acknowledged the presentation and moved on to other agenda items.
