UNMC Names Dr. Linda Love Director of Office of Faculty Development

Linda Love, Ed.D., has been named director of the Office of Faculty Development at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (www.unmc.edu). The office enhances faculty skills in clinical and classroom teaching, research, leadership and scholarship for more than 1,800 UNMC faculty in Omaha, Lincoln, Kearney, Scottsbluff and Norfolk.

The office is guided by the Education Development Committee and Career Development and Engagement Committee to assure and advance the development of faculty and works with a network of stakeholders including the Office of Faculty Mentoring, the Interprofessional Academy of Educators, and Nebraska Medicine.

Dr. Love, who grew up in Lincoln, joined UNMC in 2004, earned her bachelor’s degree at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and her master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of South Dakota. She succeeds Howard Liu, M.D., who stepped down recently after being named interim chair of the UNMC Department of Psychiatry.

Dr. Love has seen a rapid evolution in faculty development needs during her 14 years at UNMC. To address these needs, faculty development is planning programs and services that support the growth of both individual faculty members and the institution as a whole, she said. She will focus on growing leaders and coaching faculty to be successful in representing Nebraska locally and nationally.