Jessica Ancker possesses expertise in informatics, biostatistics, public health, research, statistics and 26 more skills. Colleagues describe her as "Jessica completely changed my editing life when I studied with her at the University of Chicago course on designing tables and graphs. Once afraid to change any of the "math" in the manuscripts I was editing, she taught me easy and common sense strategies to evaluate the data and improve the presentation to enhance the work. Because she was such a fantastic teacher (not everyone can make data presentation engaging), I took her statistics course through the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) and encouraged colleagues to study with her at either Chicago or AMWA. In 2007, I invited her to facilitate a seminar on statistics for the editors at my workplace, and the feedback I received was astounding. Jessica has the great ability to simplify complex concepts without oversimplifying them and imparts knowledge and practices that elevate the profession of medical editing as a whole." and "I am writing to recommend Jessica Ancker as a teacher. For many years, she has been teaching in my M.S. and M.A. science journalism classes and has been doing a superb job. Such a superb job that many other professors here at the journalism school have been having her teach segments in their courses as well. Jessica is able to make statistics interesting and understandable and applicable. Because of her excellent teaching, my students have been able to tackle complex medical studies and understand the numbers as well as what might be wrong with them. They ask sharp questions about the design of the studies and the way the results are being presented. Jessica is a talented teacher and I give her my highest recommendation. Please let me know if you have any questions."