Maryam Hashemian

Maryam Hashemian, M.D., Ph.D., joined NCI/NIH as a visiting fellow in August 2016. She got her M.D., from Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Iran and her Ph.D. in Nutrition (2015) from Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Iran. As a result of Dr. Hashemian’s interest in nutritional epidemiology, she worked on dietary intake of minerals and esophageal cancer in the Golestan Cohort Study for her Ph.D. dissertation with Dr. Malekzadeh from TUMS and Dr. Christian Abnet from the DCEG Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health. Dr. Hashemian did a postdoctoral fellowship in the Digestive Disease Research Institute at Tehran University of Medical Sciences, working on biomarkers in relation to diet and esophageal cancer in the Golestan Cohort Study. The main focus of her research is nutritional epidemiology of gastrointestinal cancers. She is also interested in metabolic syndrome, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. In the DCEG, Dr. Hashemian is working on toenail trace element status and esophageal cancer with her mentors, Gwen Murphy, Ph.D., M.P.H., staff scientist, DCEG, and Christian Abnet Ph.D., M.P.H., Chief of DCEG, and senior Investigator.