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Sydney Z. Spiesel (b. 1940) is a pediatrician specializing in adolescent medicine on the clinical faculty of the
Sydney Z. Spiesel (b. 1940) is a pediatrician specializing in adolescent medicine on the clinical faculty of the Yale University School of Medicine
The Yale School of Medicine is the graduate medical school at Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was founded in 1810 as the Medical Institution of Yale College and formally opened in 1813.
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Spiesel is a regular commentator for Slate magazine
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and National Public Radio
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. He is married to legal professor and author Christina O. Spiesel.
Career
Spiesel has for many years operated a busy pediatrics practice inNew Haven, Connecticut
New Haven is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound in New Haven County, Connecticut and is part of the New York City metropolitan area. With a population of 134,023 ...
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Spiesel is the inventor () of a shampoo that makes lice
Louse ( : lice) is the common name for any member of the clade Phthiraptera, which contains nearly 5,000 species of wingless parasitic insects. Phthiraptera has variously been recognized as an order, infraorder, or a parvorder, as a resul ...
eggs (nits) fluoresce under ultraviolet light
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, so making them more visible..
Education
Spiesel received his M.D. and Ph.D. fromYale University
Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...
in 1975.
For his undergraduate work, Spiesel attended Shimer College
Shimer Great Books School (pronounced ) is a Great Books college that is part of North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. Prior to 2017, Shimer was an independent, accredited college on the south side of Chicago, with a history of bein ...
, then located in Mount Carroll, Illinois
Mount Carroll is a city in Carroll County, Illinois, United States. It is the Carroll County seat. The population was 1479 at the 2020 census.
Due to its elevation and northwesterly location, Mount Carroll is subject to unusually cold winter wea ...
. He enrolled through the school's early entrance program, which since 1950 has allowed students to matriculate who have not received a high school diploma. He graduated from Shimer in 1961. In 2012, Spiesel was named one of the first three Shimer alumni to receive the school's Alumni Service Award.
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