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This site offers UMKC faculty training and resources for setting up their OpenScholar academic websites.

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.

Dr. Lightner presents locally and nationally on topics related to physical activity, HIV, and public health practice. Dr. Lightner’s research is focused on improving health for large populations. His current projects attempt to understand how to improve sustainability of free public transportation, increase physical activity for adolescents, racial and ethnic minorities, and transgender individuals, and how to improve the public health system. In the past, Dr. Lightner has conducted studies on community capacity building, active transportation, LGBT health, health inequity, and several other areas.

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.

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.