Sylvia H Ley, PhD, RD

Ley lab focuses on developing nutritional and life-course strategies to  prevent and manage chronic diseases and using innovative AI / machine learning approaches to seek solutions. 

Dr. Ley is Associate Professor at Indiana University Indianapolis where she mentors PhD student research and teaches nutrition courses. She has high impact peer-reviewed publications, which have been cited over 16,000 times and funded by various sources including NSF, NIH, and CIHR. She serves as co-Chair of Women's Interprofessional Network and Nutrition Consensus Report Technical Expert Panel, American Diabetes Association; and Associate Editor, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Dr. Ley completed her postdoctoral training in nutrition and epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health working with large-scale cohort studies; graduate studies at University of Toronto working on maternal and infant nutrition in clinical settings as PhD and diabetes prevention in partnership with an indigenous community as MSc; and Registered Dietitian training at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Women’s College Hospital.