Mia Hashibe

Biography

Mia Hashibe is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of Utah and a Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) investigator. She is a member of the Cancer Control and Population Sciences Program and a co-leader for the Upper Aerodigestive Tract Cancer Disease Oriented Team (UADT DOT).   She is interested in the molecular, global and cancer epidemiology of head and neck cancer, lung cancer, testicular cancer and gynecologic cancers. She is the co-coordinator of the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology (INHANCE) Consortium (http://inhance.iarc.fr/). Her studies include a head and neck cancer genetics study (NIDCR R01), multicenter head and neck cancer case-control study in China (http://www.interchange.utah.edu/), a lung and head and neck cancer case-control study in Nepal, head and neck cancer risk prediction modeling, epidemiology of testicular cancer in Utah and a cancer survivors study in Utah.   Before joining HCI, Hashibe was a scientist with the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France. She earned both a master's and doctoral degree from the University of California Los Angeles.

Research Interest

Cancer Epidemiology Head and Neck Cancers Cancer Survivorship Epidemiology, Molecular Global Epidemiology Genetic Susceptibility