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 70 peer-reviewed publications, which have been cited over 10,000 times, and her research has been funded by NIH, NSF, and CIHR. She currently holds a tenure-track faculty position as Assistant Professor in Epidemiology at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. 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 Toronto, and Registered Dietitian training at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. She serves as Chair of Nutritional Epidemiology, American Society for Nutrition and Past-President of the Eta Chapter, Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health.