Faculty

Dr. Cera is a Clinical Associate Professor and Co-Coordinator of the Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner Program at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. She practices as a Women’s Health Nurse practitioner with a focus in the field of Urogynecology at Nebraska Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska. She earned her MSN as a Women’s Health nurse practitioner in 2004 and Doctor of Nursing Practice degree in 2017, both from UNMC College of Nursing.

In her roles, Dr. Cera actively engages in practice, teaching, research, and healthcare innovation. Along with staff at iEXCEL, she spearheaded the development of a 3D-Virtual Reality Pelvic model, providing tailored educational content for students and patients. This 3D-VR pelvic model has been incorporated into interprofessional healthcare curriculum, utilized by graduate nursing, medical urology, and obstetrical/gynecology students, and has guided two research studies evaluating 3-D VR teaching technologies. For the development of this model, she has received UneMed Research Innovation Award and the iEXCEL Academic Innovation Award in 2022, and the BioImages 2023 Merit Award from the BioCommunications International Association.

Dr. Cera leads the simulation curriculum in the Women’s Health program, facilitating student’s clinical skill development and competency utilizing patient scenarios with standardized patients, as well as hands-on skills and procedures. She also provides didactic and clinical curriculum for women’s primary, acute and chronic healthcare.

Recently, Dr. Cera was inducted as a Fellow of the Academy of Urologic Nurses and Associates. She has been an invited presenter at the regional and national levels for the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society (WOCN), SUNA, AUGS, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), and the Midwest Nursing Research Society (MNRS). She has been an invited national expert consultant for various evidence-based guideline white papers, professional panels, and clinical advisory boards.