Stolzenberg-Solomon received a B.S. in nutrition and dietetics at the University of California, Davis, followed by a dietetic internship and M.Ed. in health science (nutrition) education at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Peabody College, respectively.[1] After this training, she worked as a registered dietitian for ten years.[1]
She has an M.P.H. with concentrations in epidemiology and nutrition and a Ph.D., in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.[1] Her 1998 dissertation was titled, Pancreatic cancer risk and nutrition-related methyl group availability serum indicators and genetic polymorphisms.[2] Her doctoral advisor was F. Javier Nieto.[2] Demetrius Albanes was her preceptor at the National Cancer Institute (NCI).[2] Stolzenberg-Solomon joined NCI in 1996 as a predoctoral fellow in the cancer prevention studies branch of the former division of cancer prevention and control and later the center for cancer research and was a cancer prevention fellow in the division of cancer prevention and the division of cancer epidemiology and genetics (DCEG).[1] During her fellowship, she worked closely with Joseph Tangrea and Philip R. Taylor.[2]
She became an investigator in DCEG in 2002, and was awarded NIH scientific tenure and promoted to senior investigator in 2011.[1] She heads the metabolic epidemiology branch.[3] Stolzenberg-Solomon has focused much of her research on elucidating the etiology of pancreatic cancer.[1] She has examined dietary, other lifestyle, and genetic factors, including biomarkers related to insulin resistance and metabolomics that may help reveal underlying mechanisms of carcinogenesis.[1] In addition to her work on pancreatic cancer, she has pursued, on a limited basis, other nutrition-related hypotheses including biomarkers in nutritional intervention studies.[1] Stolzenberg-Solomon is a fellow of the American College of Epidemiology and a member of the American Epidemiological Society.[1][3]
