She conducts research that combines her interests in quantitative methods, cognition, and communication through health information technology. One major research focus is the relationship between information technology design, cognition, and decisions. Dr. Ancker is an associate editor of both Medical Decision Making and BMJ Medical Informatics and Decision Making and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA). Dr. Ancker holds a secondary appointment in the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences. She received her MPH in biostatistics in 2004 and her PhD in biomedical informatics in 2009 from Columbia University.