Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller

{{short description|American epidemiologist}}

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| name = Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller

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| birth_name = Sylvia Maria Wassertheil

| birth_date = {{birth year and age |1932 }}

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| nationality = American

| fields = Epidemiology

| workplaces = Albert Einstein College of Medicine

| alma_mater = Syracuse University
New York University

| thesis_title = Human Information Processing in Logical Problem Solving

| thesis_url = https://www.proquest.com/docview/302504610

| thesis_year = 1969

| doctoral_advisor = Mark S. Mayzner

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| spouse = {{marriage|David Wassertheil|1955|1968|end=d.}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.einstein.yu.edu/features/stories/936/sylvia-wassertheil-smoller-celebrating-an-illustrious-career/ |title=Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller: Celebrating an Illustrious Career |website=Albert Einstein College of Medicine |access-date=2019-05-10}}

| children = Jordan Smoller

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Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller (born 1932) is an American epidemiologist and Distinguished University Professor Emerita in the Department of Epidemiology & Population Health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she first joined the faculty in 1969. She also serves as Dorothy and William Manealoff Foundation and Molly Rosen Chair in Social Medicine Emerita at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, as a principal investigator of their Women's Health Initiative, and as co-principal investigator for their site in the Hispanic Community Health Study.{{Cite web |url=http://www.einstein.yu.edu/faculty/5563/sylvia-wassertheil-smoller/ |title=Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, Ph.D. |website=Albert Einstein College of Medicine |access-date=2019-05-10 |archive-date=2019-04-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424163913/http://www.einstein.yu.edu/faculty/5563/sylvia-wassertheil-smoller/ |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://thecollege.syr.edu/news/2014/sylvia_smoller.html |title=The Ultimate Mensch |last=Enslin |first=Ron |date=2014-12-17 |website=College of Arts and Sciences |publisher=Syracuse University |access-date=2019-05-10}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.einstein.yu.edu/faculty/experts/5563/sylvia-wassertheil-smoller/ |title=Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, Ph.D. |website=Einstein Experts for Media |publisher=Albert Einstein College of Medicine |access-date=2019-05-10}} She is a fellow of the American College of Epidemiology, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the American Heart Association.{{Cite web |url=http://www.einstein.yu.edu/images/faculty/experts/profiles/44/wassertheil-smoller%20cv-full-9-06-11.pdf |title=Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, Ph.D. Curriculum Vitae |access-date=2019-05-09}}