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