Huge congratulations to our research coordinator, Meena Shankar, M.S., R.D., C.C.R.C. for earning her board certification in Obesity and Weight Management through the Commission on Dietetic Registration! Meena is now a Certified Specialist in Obesity and Weight Management, which demonstrates her vast knowledge of lifestyle interventions and pharmacotherapy/surgical treatments for…
Huge congratulations to Health Promotion Lab graduate student, Kelsey Barrett on successfully presenting her amazing first year project examining “Associations between social support and weight change in rural adults during and after a behavioral weight management program” during our department’s Fall Symposium!…
Check out graduate student, Kelsey Arroyo’s interview with UF PHHP about her recent first-author publication examining individual differences in the associations between self-monitoring and weight loss during and after a behavioral weight loss program. Link below! Link: https://phhp.ufl.edu/2023/09/21/does-self-monitoring-for-weight-loss-work-for-everyone/…
Congratulations to HPL PhD student Umelo Ugwoaba, who successfully defended his dissertation, entitled “Development and validation of a meal planning questionnaire for adults with obesity involved in behavioral weight loss treatment.” Amazing job!…
Congratulations to UF Health Promotion Lab PhD student Umelo Ugwoaba, who just completed his MPH in epidemiology! Umelo worked on this degree in addition to his coursework/training for his PhD in clinical psychology; his work is a great example of our lab’s focus on the intersection between clinical psychology…
HPL graduate student, Andrea Brockmann will be serving as one of the directors at the Equal Access Behavioral Health Clinic (EABHC)! Her role will be to oversee the administration of clinical services provided to uninsured and underinsured individuals in Alachua county. More specifically, she will assist in growing the…
Left to right: Umelo Ugwoaba, Vivian Bauman, Andrea Brockmann, Taylor Swanson, Kelsey Arroyo, Chelsea Carpenter HPL graduate students, Umelo Ugwoaba, M.S., Vivian Bauman, M.S., Andrea Brockmann, M.A., Kelsey Arroyo, M.S., and post-doc, Chelsea Carpenter, Ph.D. presented their research at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine! Poster…
Congratulations to HPL PhD student Andrea Brockmann, who won the Obesity and Eating Disorder Special Interest Group’s Top Flash Talk award during the 2022 annual meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine! See their announcement below:…
Congratulations to HPL PhD student Abe Eastman, who just successfully defended his dissertation, entitled “Pilot Study of a Rural Adapted Acceptance Based Behavioral Treatment for Obesity.” Fantastic work!…
Researchers in our lab published a new study showing that telehealth-based weight loss interventions produce similar weight loss outcomes to those delivered in person! These findings support the continued use of telehealth modalities for intervention delivery. Check out the news article about this study below! https://ufhealth.org/news/2022/uf-study-weight-loss-telehealth-intervention-effective-person-programs …
