University of Nebraska Medical Center
University of Nebraska Medical Center

Kendra Schmid, PhD, MA, PStat

Associate Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs
Interim Vice Provost, University of Nebraska
Professor, UNMC Department of Biostatistics

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Headshot of Kendra Schmid.

Kendra K. Schmid, PhD, MA, PStat, is UNMC's Associate Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs and a professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the College of Public Health. She aslo serves as interim Vice Provost for the University of Nebraska.

She joined UNMC in 2007 and has held several leadership roles, including campus director of assessment for Graduate Studies and interim chair of the Department of Biostatistics.

  • PhD Statistics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2007
  • MA Educational Administration, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2017
  • MS Statistics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2004
  • BS Mathematics, Chadron State College, 2001

Dr. Schmid's current research is focused on statistical shape analysis using landmark data and in particular, methods for face recognition applications. She is also interested in statistics education.

  • American Statistical Association
  • International Biometric Society (ENAR)