Ziling Mao is a first year Ph.D. student in Department of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh, advised by Dr. Samaneh Farsijani. Her research interests are nutritional epidemiology, gut microbiome and omics data analysis, nutritional strategies (e.g., meal timing and patterns of food intake) and cardiometabolic health, and dietary approaches to promote healthy aging. Ziling got her master’s degree in Epidemiology from the Emory University at Atlanta, GA. Her career goal is to become an epidemiologist/research scientist in industries or research institutes. 

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• Mao Z, Prizment AE, Lazovich D, Gibbs DC, Bostick RM. Lifestyle and dietary oxidative balance scores and risk for incident colorectal cancer among older women: the Iowa Women’s Health Study. Proc AACR 2020; 61:Abstract #3212. 

• Mao Z, Prizment A, Lazovich D, Bostick RM. Associations of dietary and lifestyle oxidative balance scores with all-cancer, all-CVD, and all-cause mortality risk among older women; the Iowa Women’s Health Study. Proc AACR 2021; 62:Abstract #846. 

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• Mao Z, Aglago E, Zhao Z, Schalkwijk C, Jiao L, Freisling H, et al. (2021) Dietary intake of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) and mortality among individuals with colorectal cancer. Nutrients. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13124435

• Mao Z, Bostick RM. (2021). Associations of Dietary, Lifestyle, Other Participant Characteristics, and Oxidative Balance Scores with Plasma F2-isoprostanes Concentrations in a Pooled Cross-Sectional Study. Eur J Nutr. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00394-021-02754-2

• Mao Z, Prizment AE, Lazovich D, Bostick RM (2021). Associations of dietary and lifestyle oxidative balance scores with mortality risk among older women: the Iowa Women’s Health Study. Eur J Nutr. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00394-021- 02557-5

• Mao Z, Prizment AE, Lazovich D, Gibbs DC, Bostick RM (2020). Dietary and Lifestyle Oxidative Balance Scores and Incident Colorectal Cancer Risk Among Older Women; the Iowa Women’s Health Study. Nutr Cancer. https://doi.org/10.1080/01635581.2020.1821904

• Zhao J, Mao Z, Fedewa SA, Nogueira L, Yabroff KR, Jemal A, and Han X (2020). The Affordable Care Act and access to care across the cancer control continuum: A review at 10 years. CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. https://doi.org/10.3322/caac.21604