Sydney Spiesel

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Sydney Spiesel
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Spiesel at Shimer College in 2012
Born
Sydney Z. Spiesel

1940 (age 85–86)
Education
Occupation Pediatrician

Sydney Z. Spiesel (born 1940) [1] is an American pediatrician specializing in adolescent medicine [2] [3] on the clinical faculty of the Yale University School of Medicine. [4]

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Spiesel is a regular commentator for Slate magazine [5] and National Public Radio. [6] He is married to legal professor and author Christina O. Spiesel. [7]

Education

For his undergraduate work, Spiesel attended Shimer College, then located in Mount Carroll, Illinois. He enrolled through the school's early entrance program, which since 1950 has allowed students to matriculate who have not received a high school diploma. [8] He graduated from Shimer in 1961. [9]

Spiesel received his M.D. and Ph.D. from Yale University in 1975. [10]

Career

Spiesel has for many years operated a busy pediatrics practice in New Haven, Connecticut. [1] [7]

Spiesel is the inventor ( US 5997847  ) of a shampoo that makes lice eggs (nits) fluoresce under ultraviolet light, so making them more visible. [11] [12]

In 2012, Spiesel was named one of the first three Shimer alumni to receive the school's Alumni Service Award. [9]

References

  1. 1 2 Mary Jane Minkin. "1975 - 30th reunion".
  2. ↑ "Dr. Sydney Z. Spiesel, MD - Phone & Address Info – Woodbridge, CT - Adolescent Medicine". www.healthgrades.com. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
  3. ↑ Dr. Sydney Spiesel, MD, Woodbridge, CT. DrFaces.com. Retrieved 2013-09-06.
  4. ↑ Trillin, Calvin (July 17, 2000), "Lice Styles Of The Rich And Famous", TIME Magazine, Time, archived from the original on October 15, 2008, retrieved May 28, 2008
  5. ↑ "Who we are". Slate.com. Retrieved 2012-04-08.[ permanent dead link ]
  6. ↑ Sydney Spiesel on NPR
  7. 1 2 Mary Jane Minkin. "Class of 1975: 35th reunion".
  8. ↑ Shimer College. "Early Entrant Program". Archived from the original on 2013-06-02. Retrieved 2012-04-08.
  9. 1 2 Shimer College. "The Inaugural Alumni Service Award Winners". Alumni.shimer.edu. Archived from the original on 2012-12-14. Retrieved 2012-04-08.
  10. ↑ Yale School of Medicine. "Sydney Spiesel". Yale.edu. Retrieved 2012-10-18.
  11. ↑ Kelliher, Jeff, "You Light Up My Lice", HealthNews, headlice.org.
  12. ↑ Riordan, Teresa. "Patents; Inventors work on laser hair removal, hair cleaning, hair mascara and hair drying". Archived from the original on 2018-07-22. Retrieved 2026-01-05.


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