CIPER Leadership
Pictured above: CIPER Omaha campus team. Not pictured from the Omaha campus team: Kimberly Beran-Shepler, Amy McGaha, Kathryn Onorato, and Scott Shipman.
Executive Director
Jennifer Lynn Jessen, EdD, RN, CNOR
Assistant Professor
Executive Director of CIPER
College of Nursing, Omaha Campus
jlj87885@creighton.edu
Meet our program faculty and staff below.
Leadership
Kimberly A. Beran-Shepler, PT, DPT, OCS, FNAP
- Assistant Professor
- 402.280.4590
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Wendi Carlton, MD
- Medical Director
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Jennifer Feirstein, MSPAS, PA-C
- Director, Director of Didactic Education
- 602.812.4591
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Jennifer Lynn Jessen, EdD, RN, CNOR
- Assistant Professor
- 402.280.5667
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Amy Lounsberry
- Program Manager
- 402.280.4141
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Kate Martens Stricklett, MS, NHA, COS, SHCM
- CIPER Program Manager
- 402.280.5258
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Amy L. McGaha, MD
- Chair, Department of Family & Community Medicine
- 402.280.4111
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Kathryn Onorato, MS '15, '19
- Program Manager
- 402.280.4594
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Kimberly Somers, PT, DPT, CSCS
- Assistant Professor
- 602.812.3136
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Sharene Sterling
- Administrative Assistant
- 402.280.5270
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Andrea M. Thinnes, OTD, OTR/L
- Associate Professor
- 402.280.5929
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Administrative Council
Jennifer Brady, MLIS, EdD
- Department Head
- 402.280.4127
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Geralyn D. Crain, DDS, PhD, FNAP
- Associate Dean, Academic Affairs
- 402.280.4340
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Joan Marie Lappe, PhD, RN, FAAN
- Associate Dean, College of Nursing Research
- 402.280.4646
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Thomas Leo Lenz, PharmD
- Chair, Bachelor of Arts in Healthy Lifestyle Management
- 402.280.3144
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Contact Information
Center for Interprofessional Practice,
Education and Research (CIPER)
402.280.4141
