New faculty spotlight: Jerrod Anzalone, PhD

Jerrod Anzalone, PhD, is a new faculty member at UNMC.

• Name: Jerrod Anzalone, PhD
• Title and department at UNMC: Assistant professor, Department of Biostatistics, UNMC College of Public Health, and co-director of the Biomedical Informatics and Cyberinfrastructure Core for the Great Plains IDeA-CTR. 
• Hometown: Omaha

Research/professional interests:

• Clinical informatics
• Rural health
• Health data science education and training

How I fell in love with informatics: I love my corner of informatics because it enables health data to be better connected, which opens up a world of possibilities for public health, research and enhanced patient care. On a personal level, my goal when I started post-secondary school was to find a career where I could be paid to read and write. While that’s not all I get to do nowadays, it’s a larger part of my job responsibilities than I previously thought was possible.  

Education:

• PhD in biomedical informatics, UNMC
• MS in management information systems, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Memberships:

• American Medical Informatics Association
• American Statistical Association

Three things people may not know about me:

• I love cats.
• I hate snakes.
• My favorite author is Willa Cather, and not just because I’m from Nebraska.