Omer Gersten, Ph.D. Email: omer.gersten@berkeley.edu
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Omer Gersten, Ph.D. Email: omer.gersten@berkeley.edu |
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Welcome to my homepage!
I currently live in San Diego, California and am a health researcher and biodata analyst. One project I'm involved with is examining evidence for the "cancer transition" theory in the US, select European nations, and Japan. My collaborator on this work is Dr. Magali Barbieri, who is Associate Director of the Human Mortality Database, which is where our data come from. The cancer transition posits that cancers with a root in infectious causes are declining (e.g., stomach and cervical), whereas those with a root in non-infectious causes are increasing (e.g., lung and breast). If we find evidence for cancer transitions, that would be a breakthrough in our understanding of cancer trends, since presently most researchers do not have a theory to explain the disparate patterns of the deadliest cancers. Regarding my academic background, as an undergraduate I went to UC Berkeley and majored in Sociology and took all the prerequisites necessary to get into medical school. Instead of going to medical school as I had planned, I returned to UC Berkeley to complete my Ph.D. in Demography (a.k.a. Population Studies), which involved obtaining an ancillary Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) along the way. The focus of that master's program was Epidemiology. For my dissertation, I analyzed the Social Environment and Biomarkers of Aging Study (SEBAS), which was carried out on Taiwanese, and had an interest in analyzing future waves of the study, so I applied for a postdoc at Academia Sinica in Taiwan (and was accepted). After that temporary position concluded, I became a researcher at the National Health Research Institutes (NHRI) in that same country. Feel free to contact me and otherwise connect with me on ResearchGate and/or LinkedIn. Thanks, Omer |
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