Abeer M. Mahmoud
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Biography
Abeer Mahmoud has received her MD degree and residency training as a Pathologist from Assiut University, Egypt. She served as a surgical/clinical pathologist at South Egypt Cancer Institute (2002-2008). She earned her Ph.D. in Pathology (College of Medicine, the University of Illinois at Chicago, 2013) and received postdoctoral training in physiological and molecular outcomes of lifestyle interventions at the metabolic and vascular levels. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at UIC and funded by the NIH/NHLBI to study DNA methylation profiles among morbidly obese and the impact on metabolic and vascular functions.