**Abeer M. Mahmoud**

Abeer M. Mahmoud, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, UIC. She received her MD degree and training as a Pathologist from Assiut University, Egypt. She served as a surgical pathologist at South Egypt Cancer Institute (2002–2008), before realizing her true passion was in biomedical research. She earned her Ph.D. in Pathology from the College of Medicine, UIC, in 2013, where she studied chemoprevention in prostate cancer. For her postdoctoral research (College of Applied Health Sciences, UIC, 2013–2017), she studied physiological and molecular outcomes of lifestyle interventions. She is funded by the National Institute of Health to study epigenetic modifications in morbidly obese patients and their impact on cardiometabolic functions. She also studies the role of adipose tissue secretions and exosomes in diabetes-associated vascular dysfunction and has conducted several exercise and nutrition trials to mitigate obesity and diabetes-associated co-morbidities.
