Denise Kandel

Denise Kandel (; née Bystryn; born February 27, 1933) is a French-born American medical sociologist and epidemiologist. 
Kandel is known for her epidemiological longitudinal studies on the sequence of first-time use of various legal and illegal drugs, carried out from the 1970s until the present time (written 2016).
She is a Holocaust survivor. In 1956, she married Eric Kandel. They have two children.