Stephanie Moller Hikel
Ms. Hikel is a Senior Scientist and Director with more than eight years of research experience in cancer and chronic disease epidemiology, and occupational and environmental health. Ms Hikel leads teams of Epidemiologists and other scientists on a range of EI projects, and is responsible for developing litigation support business for EI.
At Epidemiology International, Ms. Hikel has led projects on a variety of topics including: health effects associated with exposure to petroleum vapors, particulate matter, pesticides, PCBs, dioxins, coal dust and coal incineration by-products, and environmental contaminants resulting from the collapse of the World Trade Center; risk factors for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma; risk of birth defects in occupational cohorts of workers in the semiconductor fabrication industry; analysis of levels of organochlorines in the general population using NHANES data; review of clinical trial data and analysis of adverse event rates in clinical trial populations; ecological analyses of cancer incidence data related to point sources of exposure; and design and administration of complex questionnaires and data collection tools.
Prior to joining the Epidemiology International team, Ms. Hikel was a Research Associate at the University of Michigan School of Medicine. She was also a post-baccalaureate research fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) Social and Behavioral Research Branch, where she participated in studies of patients with Lynch syndrome (hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer [HNPCC]); evaluated genetic polymorphisms associated with increased risks for several cancers; and participated in the planning of the Multiplex Initiative.
Ms. Hikel holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) in Epidemiology and a certificate in Public Health Genetics from the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and earned her B.S. in Biobehavioral Health from The Pennsylvania State University.