Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller

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Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller
Born
Sylvia Maria Wassertheil

1932 (age 9192)
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Syracuse University
New York University
Spouse
David Wassertheil
(m. 1955;died 1968)
[1] [2]
Children Jordan Smoller [1]
Scientific career
Fields Epidemiology
Institutions Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Thesis Human Information Processing in Logical Problem Solving  (1969)
Doctoral advisor Mark S. Mayzner

Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller (born 1932) is an American epidemiologist and Distinguished University Professor Emerita in the Department of Epidemiology & Population Health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she first joined the faculty in 1969. She also serves as Dorothy and William Manealoff Foundation and Molly Rosen Chair in Social Medicine Emerita at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, as a principal investigator of their Women's Health Initiative, and as co-principal investigator for their site in the Hispanic Community Health Study. [3] [2] [4] She is a fellow of the American College of Epidemiology, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the American Heart Association. [5]

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References

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