Bob Bartee, MA
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Bob Bartee, MA
Date
6 May 2023
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Courtesy of the UNMC Department of Strategic Communications
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Robert “Bob” Bartee has served the UNMC community for over forty years, first as the executive assistant to the chancellor before being elevated to the vice chancellor for external affairs. Bartee also served as the vice chancellor for external relations at the University of Nebraska at Omaha from 2019 to 2021.
Bartee's tenure at UNMC included numerous successes. Among them:
- Establishing a partnership with Nebraska institutions receiving National Institutes of Health research funding and successfully drafting and passing legislation that called for 20% annually of the state’s Tobacco Settlement funds to be allocated for biomedical research.
- Establishing the UNMC Alumni Relations office, which brought together individual college alumni chapters from across the campus.
- Helping assemble a coalition of businesses, neighborhood groups and city government to develop a vision and master plan to revitalize the midtown Omaha area through Destination Midtown.
- Designing and leading the passage of legislation to create the Nebraska Cancer Registry to assist cancer researchers in obtaining vital epidemiological data.
- Positioning Nebraska as one of the very first states in the nation to dedicate a portion of its cigarette tax for research in cancer and smoking-related diseases.
- Drafting legislation and securing funding for the Nebraska Rural Health Education Network (RHEN), a statewide educational partnership between private and academic health professionals. The office has morphed into what is now the Office of Rural Health Initiatives at UNMC.
- Conceiving and establishing the UNMC High School Alliance, which offers high school juniors and seniors an opportunity for hands-on training from world-renowned experts.
- Working with campus and community partners to secure state funding for the establishment of the Behavioral Health Education Center of Nebraska (BHECN).
- Helping to secure state, county and city funding for the construction of the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center.
Bartee has served as a member of the Association of American Medical Colleges Governmental Relations Steering Committee and the Association of Academic Health Centers Health Policy Advisory Committee. He also served in leadership roles on numerous community boards and organizations. In stepping down as vice chancellor, Bartee now works as senior advisor to the chancellor.
Prior to joining UNMC, Bartee spent five years in the University of Nebraska’s government relations office. A 1969 graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Bartee has a master’s degree from Syracuse University’s Maxwell Graduate School of Public Affairs.
Bartee's tenure at UNMC included numerous successes. Among them:
- Establishing a partnership with Nebraska institutions receiving National Institutes of Health research funding and successfully drafting and passing legislation that called for 20% annually of the state’s Tobacco Settlement funds to be allocated for biomedical research.
- Establishing the UNMC Alumni Relations office, which brought together individual college alumni chapters from across the campus.
- Helping assemble a coalition of businesses, neighborhood groups and city government to develop a vision and master plan to revitalize the midtown Omaha area through Destination Midtown.
- Designing and leading the passage of legislation to create the Nebraska Cancer Registry to assist cancer researchers in obtaining vital epidemiological data.
- Positioning Nebraska as one of the very first states in the nation to dedicate a portion of its cigarette tax for research in cancer and smoking-related diseases.
- Drafting legislation and securing funding for the Nebraska Rural Health Education Network (RHEN), a statewide educational partnership between private and academic health professionals. The office has morphed into what is now the Office of Rural Health Initiatives at UNMC.
- Conceiving and establishing the UNMC High School Alliance, which offers high school juniors and seniors an opportunity for hands-on training from world-renowned experts.
- Working with campus and community partners to secure state funding for the establishment of the Behavioral Health Education Center of Nebraska (BHECN).
- Helping to secure state, county and city funding for the construction of the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center.
Bartee has served as a member of the Association of American Medical Colleges Governmental Relations Steering Committee and the Association of Academic Health Centers Health Policy Advisory Committee. He also served in leadership roles on numerous community boards and organizations. In stepping down as vice chancellor, Bartee now works as senior advisor to the chancellor.
Prior to joining UNMC, Bartee spent five years in the University of Nebraska’s government relations office. A 1969 graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Bartee has a master’s degree from Syracuse University’s Maxwell Graduate School of Public Affairs.