Jim Anderson, Ph.D., who for the past 24 years has been UNMC’s go-to man for biostatistics, will say his farewells to campus colleagues at a tea from 2 to 4 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 19, on the third floor of the Maurer Center for Public Health. Remarks will be at 2:30 p.m.
Dr. Anderson will serve as associate dean for research through Dec. 31. He will resign from his faculty appointment as professor of biostatistics effective March 1, 2014.
Recognized internationally for his work in cooperative clinical cancer research, Dr. Anderson will be the director of the Madison, Wis., office of Frontier Science and Technology Research Foundation, Inc. The move will put him closer to his wife, Magda Peck, Sc.D., who left UNMC in 2011 to become the founding dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
As associate dean for research, Dr. Anderson helped to establish and administer research mentoring programs for junior faculty, such as the Dean’s Mentored Research Grants. He spent much of his time meeting one-on-one with junior faculty to offer them guidance tailored to their specific fields of research.
Below are highlights of Dr. Anderson’s tenure:
- Served as chairman of the UNMC Department of Prevention and Societal Medicine, the foundation for the College of Public Health.
- Member of the UNMC Institutional Review Board for more than 23 years.
- Recognized internationally for his work in cooperative clinical cancer research, most notably with the Children’s Oncology Group.
Jim: You will be missed.