Jane Meza, PhD
Professor, UNMC Department of Biostatistics
Interim Vice Chancellor, UNMC Department of Academic Affairs
Jane Meza, PhD, is UNMC's interim chancellor for academic affairs and a professor in the College of Public Health Department of Biostatistics. Since joining UNMC in 2000, Dr. Meza has held multiple leadership and faculty roles, including:
- Associate vice chancellor for global affairs and strategic planning.
- Interim executive director for health security.
- Co-director of the Biostatistics Shared Resource for the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center.
- Interim dean and senior associate dean of the UNMC College of Public Health.
- Chair of the UNMC Department of Biostatistics.
- Director of the Center for Collaboration on Research Design and Analysis.
She also has held a continuing faculty appointment in the UNMC College of Medicine and as a graduate faculty member for the University of Nebraska.
During her time at UNMC, Dr. Meza also has served in leadership roles at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, including interim executive director of the Office of Health Safety and interim associate vice chancellor for Global and Student Support.
She holds courtesy appointments in the UNMC College of Nursing and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Statistics.
- PhD Statistics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2000
- MS Statistics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1998
- BS Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1996
Dr. Meza's methodological research focuses on statistical issues related to small-area estimation. These methods have been extended to disease mapping applications and combining national and state data to estimate the probability of a rare event.
- Chaturvedi, P., Singh, A. P., Chakraborty, S., Chauhan, S. C., Bafna, S., Meza, J. L.,et al. (2008). MUC4 mucin interacts with and stabilizes the HER2 oncoprotein in human pancreatic cancer cells. Cancer Research, 68(7), 2065-2070. PMCID: PMC2835497
- Lin, C., Charlton, M. E., Meza, J. L.,Enke, C. A., & Loberiza, F. R.,Jr. (2010). Temporal and regional variations in the use of preoperative radiation therapy for rectal cancer. American Journal of Clinical Oncology, 33(5), 443-447. PMID: 19952718
- Macha MA, Rachagani S, Pai P, Gupta S, Lydiatt WM, Smith RB, Johansson SL, Lele SM, Kakar SS, Lee JH, Meza J, Ganti AK, Jain M, Batra SK. MUC4 regulates cellular senescence in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma through p16/Rb pathway. Oncogene. 2014 Apr 21. 10.1038/onc.2014.102. PubMed PMID: 24747969. PMCID: PMC4205229
- Shull JD, Lachel CM, Strecker TE, Spady TJ, Tochacek M, Pennington KL, Murrin CR, Meza JL, Schaffer BS, Flood LA, Gould KA (2006). Genetic bases of renal agenesis in the ACI rat: mapping of Renag1 to chromosome 14. Mamm Genome.17(7):751-9
- Raney RB, Walterhouse DO, Meza JL,Andrassy RJ, Breneman JC, Crist WM, Maurer HM, Meyer WH, Parham DM, Qualman SJ, Wiener ES, and Anderson JR (2011). Results of the Intergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma Study Group (IRSG) D9602 protocol, using vincristine and dactinomycin with or without cyclophosphamide and radiation therapy, for newly diagnosed patients with low-risk embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma, 1997-2004: A report from the Soft Tissue Sarcoma Committee of the Children’s Oncology Group. Journal of Clinical Oncology 29(10): 1312-1318. PMID: 21357783. PMCID: PMC3083999
- American Statistical Association
- American Public Health Association
- Public Health Association of Nebraska