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The official webpage for the Surgical Innovation Lab at the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine. Our research aims to improve surgical safety and surgical education by studying and analyzing factors such as noise, movement, teaching, communication and even Human factors. Goals include developing a surgical simulation tool to prepare residents for performing a midurethral sling operation, identify causes in noise and in language that interfere with communication and understanding in the operating room, and even developing a solution to mitigate noise in the OR. We also utilized ethnographic studies, OR observation and video recording.

Higher education and student development scholar with an expertise in college student well-being, sense of belonging, and religious identity and outcomes in college. Dr. Riggers-Piehl specializes in critical quantitative investigation into the experiences of students in college with a special focus on campus climate for religious students and historically excluded students in STEM.

Research in the McGraw seeks to understand how sensory cells develop and regeneration in growing animals. We use the zebrafish (Danio rerio) as a model because it is an excellent organism for the study of developmental biology. We use zebrafish to study the development and regeneration of sensory cells. We are particularly focused on the lateral line mechanosensory system, which allows fish and other aquatic vertebrates to sense water current.

Sirisha Naidu is Associate Professor of Economics and affiliate faculty in the Department of Race, Ethnic and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). Her research focuses on feminist political economy analyses of agrarian change and ecological shifts, environmental justice, the interwoven tapestry of productive and reproductive labor in the Global South, and informal and precarious work in the global economy.

Dr. Russell Lippincott's program of research focuses on self-management of chronic disease, specifically behavior change in those with kidney and heart disease. She completed an NIH R01 to test a SystemCHANGETM intervention to improve medication adherence, physiologic and cost outcomes in adult kidney transplant recipients. Dr. Russell’s research program has been funded consistently since 2002 in amounts ranging from $10,000 to $2,585,224. She leads an inter-professional research team in transplantation.

Sarah Patel, PhD, RN, C-EFM is an Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, School of Nursing and Health Studies. She enjoys teaching graduate and undergraduate students. Her research focuses on nursing interventions and management of chronic pelvic pain in women.

Associate professor in and Chair of the Department of Political Science and Philosophy at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, where I am also an associate faculty member of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program. My research focuses on women in conflict, negotiations between states and factionalized insurgencies, and the reintegration of veterans. I currently serve on the editorial board of International Interactions, as the 2022 President of the Midwest region of the International Studies Association, and as a faculty fellow of UMKC's CAFE program. I am also a contributor at Political Violence at a Glance, an affiliated researcher with the Missouri Institute of Defense and Energy, and a 2020/21 alumna of the International Policy Summer Institute.