Sylvia 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 12,000 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 Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine where she mentors PhD and MS student research and teaches epidemiologic methods I and III. She serves as Past-Chair of Nutritional Epidemiology, American Society for Nutrition; 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.