Biography:Sheryl F. Kelsey
Sheryl F. Kelsey (born 1945) is an American biostatistician and epidemiologist who became the first woman to earn a doctorate in statistics from Carnegie Mellon University. She made significant contributions to how heart disease is treated by studying the outcomes of coronary angioplasty.[1]
Education and career
Kelsey was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1945, and grew up in New Jersey and Iowa.[1] She studied mathematics as an undergraduate, with a minor in chemistry, graduating in 1967 from Mount Holyoke College.[2] She earned her PhD from Carnegie Mellon in 1978, with a dissertation on the air pollution caused by steel mills, supervised by Paul Shaman.[1][3] She joined the University of Pittsburgh, and remained there until her retirement in 2012.[1]
Awards and honors
She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, the American Heart Association, and the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences.[1] She also chairs the IAIA Foundation of the Institute of American Indian Arts.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Groundbreaking Epidemiologist Retires from Pitt Public Health, University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences, November 1, 2012, http://www.upmc.com/media/NewsReleases/2012/Pages/Epidemiologist-Retires-Public-Health.aspx, retrieved 2017-10-16
- ↑ "Dr. Sheryl F Kelsey, PhD", Directory (University of Pittsburgh Public Health), https://www.publichealth.pitt.edu/home/directory/sheryl-f-kelsey, retrieved 2017-10-16
- ↑ Sheryl F. Kelsey at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ IAIA Foundation, Institute of American Indian Arts, https://iaia.edu/philanthropy/iaia-foundation/, retrieved 2017-10-16
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