Sylvia H Ley, PhD, RD

Dr. Ley focuses on developing life-course strategies to prevent and manage chronic diseases and investigating lifestyle risk factors for progression of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. She has over 80 peer-reviewed publications, which have been cited over 14,000 times and funded by various sources including NIH, NSF, and CIHR. She currently holds a tenure-track faculty position as Assistant Professor in Epidemiology at Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University where she mentors PhD and MS student research and teaches epidemiologic methods I and III. She serves as co-Chair of Women's Interprofessional Network, American Diabetes Association; Associate Editor, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition; and Nutrition Consensus Report Technical Expert Panel, American Diabetes Association.

Dr. Ley completed her postdoctoral training at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health working with large-scale cohort studies using classical epidemiologic methods, doctoral study in maternal and infant nutrition and clinical epidemiology at University of Toronto, and Registered Dietitian training at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.