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]

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References
  1. Groundbreaking Epidemiologist Retires from Pitt Public Health, University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences, November 1, 2012, retrieved 2017-10-16
  2. "Dr. Sheryl F Kelsey, PhD", Directory, University of Pittsburgh Public Health, retrieved 2017-10-16
  3. Sheryl F. Kelsey at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. IAIA Foundation, Institute of American Indian Arts, retrieved 2017-10-16
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