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Margaret Tomann, Ph.D., M.S.P.H.

Margaret Tomann, Ph.D., M.S.P.H., joined DCEG in June 2026 as a postdoctoral fellow in the Radiation Epidemiology Branch (REB) under the co-mentorship of Elizabeth K. Cahoon, Ph.D., and Cari Kitahara, Ph.D., senior investigators.

Dr. Tomann earned a B.S. from Villanova University and an M.S.P.H. in tropical medicine and parasitology from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She also holds a graduate certificate in Appalachian studies from Radford University. She completed her Ph.D. in exposure sciences and environmental epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in May 2026.

Prior to her doctoral training, Dr. Tomann was the director of the Black Lung Clinic Program in Virginia, where she led a team delivering medical, legal, and behavioral health services to coal miners in central Appalachia.

In REB, Dr. Tomann will investigate associations of environmental and occupational radiation exposure with cancer risks in the U.S. Radiologic Technologists Study and among individuals exposed to radiation from Chernobyl in Ukraine and Belarus.
 

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