Elizabeth K. Cahoon
Elizabeth K. Cahoon | |
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Cahoon in 2019 | |
| Born | Elizabeth Khaykin Tbilisi, Georgia |
| Citizenship | Georgia United States |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania (BSE) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (SM) Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (MHS, PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Epidemiology, cancer research |
| Institutions | National Cancer Institute |
| Thesis | Prevention in the severely mentally ill: primary care quality and adverse events among persons with schizophrenia, and the benefit of physical activity on sleep in a community sample of persons with severe mental illness (2008) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jonathan Samet Gail L. Daumit |
| Other academic advisors | Joseph F. Coughlin |
Elizabeth Khaykin Cahoon is a Georgian-born American epidemiologist researching cancer and precancer risks conferred by environmental sources of radiation exposure. She is a Stadtman investigator at the National Cancer Institute.