Ellis Fischel Cancer Center, Room 408
115 Business Loop 70 West
Columbia, MO 65203

• Phone: (573) 882-0287
• E-mail: armer@missouri.edu

Dr. Jane Armer is the co-director and scientific advisor of the Health Communication Research Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Armer has experience as a cancer survivor and expertise in post-breast cancer lymphedema research. She has five years of experience as the co-director of the Office of Research in the Sinclair School of Nursing at the University of Missouri-Columbia and has received honors and awards for her teaching skills and her research abilities.

In 1998, Dr. Armer became a Lymphedema Therapist, as designated by the Lerner Lymphedema Institute Academy of Lymphedema Studies. In 2000, she was named Director of Nursing Research at Ellis Fischel Cancer Center. She serves on the medical advisory committee for the National Lymphedema Network, is a board member for the Lymphology Association of America, has expertise in mentoring junior researchers, and is principal investigator on an NIH-funded R01 research project on post-breast cancer lymphedema.

Her duties in the Center include working with an interdisciplinary team of researchers to better understand the critical role of communications in health care and providing expert scientific guidance and leadership to the projects and acting as a resource to the scientific community. She also provides assistance to project leaders for mentoring and training of junior faculty and graduate students. In addition, Dr. Armer works to encourage investigators from relevant disciplines to study cancer communications as part of interdisciplinary teams and increase the number of peer-reviewed publications in the area of health-related communication processes. Her expertise in nursing enables her to focus on the biomedical communication issues in her Center advisory role.