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University of Nebraska Medical Center

Jerrod Anzalone, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics
Co-Director of Biomedical Informatics & Cyberinfrastructure Core, Great Plains IDeA-CTR

Professional headshot of Jerrod Anzalone.

Jerrod Anzalone, PhD is an assistant director for the UNMC College of Public Health's Department of Biostatistics. He is also the Co-Director of Biomedical Informatics & Cyberinfrastructure Core for Great Plains IDeA-CTR. 

Education
  • 2024, PhD in Biomedical Informatics, University of Nebraska Medical Center
  • 2019, MS in Management Information Systems, University of Nebraska at Omaha
  • 2018, Graduate Certificate, Systems Analysis & Design, University of Nebraska at Omaha
  • 2010, BA in History, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Research Interests

Dr. Anzalone is a clinical informaticist whose research focuses on enhancing the secondary use of EHR data for research and public health by developing interoperable data standards and reducing barriers to data linkage across organizations. His research also examines the intersection of rurality, socio-economic status, and other social determinants of health using real-world data.

Selected Publications
  • Anzalone, A. J., Beasley, W. H., Murray, K., Hillegass, W. B., Schissel, M., Vest, M. T., Chapman, S. A., Horswell, R., Miele, L., Porterfield, J. Z., Bunnell, H. T., Price, B. S., Patrick, S., Rosen, C. J., Santangelo, S. L., McClay, J. C., Hodder, S. L., & National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Consortium (2024). Associations between COVID-19 therapies and outcomes in rural and urban America: A multisite, temporal analysis from the Alpha to Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variants. The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association, 10.1111/jrh.12857. Advance online publication.
  • Anzalone, A. J., Horswell, R., Hendricks, B. M., Chu, S., Hillegass, W. B., Beasley, W. H., Harper, J. R., Kimble, W., Rosen, C. J., Miele, L., McClay, J. C., Santangelo, S. L., Hodder, S. L., & National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Consortium (2023). Higher hospitalization and mortality rates among SARS-CoV-2-infected persons in rural America. The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association39(1), 39–54.
  • Anzalone, A. J., Sun, J., Vinson, A. J., Beasley, W. H., Hillegass, W. B., Murray, K., Hendricks, B. M., Haendel, M., Geary, C. R., Bailey, K. L., Hanson, C. K., Miele, L., Horswell, R., McMurry, J. A., Porterfield, J. Z., Vest, M. T., Bunnell, H. T., Harper, J. R., Price, B. S., Santangelo, S. L., … National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Consortium (2023). Community risks for SARS-CoV-2 infection among fully vaccinated US adults by rurality: A retrospective cohort study from the National COVID Cohort Collaborative. PloS one18(1), e0279968.
  • Sun, J., Zheng, Q., Anzalone, A. J., Abraham, A. G., Olex, A. L., Zhang, Y., Mathew, J., Safdar, N., Haendel, M. A., Segev, D., Islam, J. Y., Singh, J. A., Mannon, R. B., Chute, C. G., Patel, R. C., & Kirk, G. D. (2024). Effectiveness of mRNA Booster Vaccine Against Coronavirus Disease 2019 Infection and Severe Outcomes Among Persons With and Without Immune Dysfunction: A Retrospective Cohort Study of National Electronic Medical Record Data in the United States. Open forum infectious diseases11(2), ofae019. 
Professional Affiliations
  • American Medical Informatics Association
  • Association for Clinical and Translational Science