Joel Kleinman
Joel Kleinman | |
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| Born | Joel C. Kleinman 1946 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Died | May 2, 1991 (aged 44) |
| Alma mater | City College of New York Harvard University |
| Spouse | Hynda Kleinman |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Mortimer Spiegelman Award (1982) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Health statistics, epidemiology |
| Institutions | Harvard University National Center for Health Statistics |
Joel C. Kleinman (1946 - May 2, 1991) was an American health statistician and epidemiologist specializing on the causes of infant mortality. He was director of analysis at the National Center for Health Statistics.
Life[edit]
Kleinman was born in 1946 in Brooklyn to Rose and George Kleinman.[1][2] He was raised in the Bronx.[2] In 1967, he earned a bachelor's degree from City College of New York.[1][2] He completed a master's degree and Ph.D. in statistics (1971) from Harvard University.[1] He worked there as an assistant professor of biostatistics from 1971 to 1975.[1][2] In 1975, Kleinman joined the National Center for Health Statistics as a visiting service fellow.[1][2] He became its director of analysis in 1980.[2] In 1982, Kleinman won the Mortimer Spiegelman Award.[3] In 1990, he was elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[4] A health statistician and epidemiologist, he specialized on the causes of infant mortality.[1][2]
Kleinman was married to cell biologist Hynda Kleinman.[1] They had two daughters.[1] He died of diabetes complications on May 2, 1991, during a business trip in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Joel C. Kleinman, 44, A Health Statistician". The New York Times. 1991-05-08. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-06-04.
- ^ a b c d e f g Kiely, John (October 1991). "Obituary". Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. 5 (4): 465–468. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3016.1991.tb00733.x. PMID 1754504.
- ^ "Awards". www.apha.org. Retrieved 2023-06-04.
- ^ "American Statistical Association". American Statistical Association. Retrieved 2023-06-04.
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- 1946 births
- 1991 deaths
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- Scientists from Brooklyn
- Scientists from the Bronx
- City College of New York alumni
- Harvard University alumni
- Harvard University faculty
- American statisticians
- Fellows of the American Statistical Association
- Deaths from diabetes in the United States
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention people
- American epidemiologists
- Biostatisticians