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Armaan Shetty presents his First Year Project at CHP Fall Symposium

Congratulations to Armaan Shetty for successfully presenting his first year project, entitled “Economic Investment and Weight Loss in a Behavioral Weight Management Clinical Trial” at the Department of Clinical & Health Psychology’s Fall Research Symposium! Learn more here: https://chp.phhp.ufl.edu/current-students/fall-symposium/…

Congratulations, Dr. Brockmann!

Congratulations to HPL PhD student Andrea Brockmann, who successfully defended her dissertation, entitled “Temporal Patterns of Dietary Self-Monitoring in Adults with Obesity Enrolled in a Behavioral Weight Management Program.” Great work!…

Congratulations, Dr. Arroyo!

Congratulations to HPL PhD student Kelsey Arroyo, who successfully defended her dissertation, entitled “A Delphi study to develop expert consensus on the delivery of psychological follow-up care post-bariatric surgery.” Great work!…

Congratulations, Kelsey Barrett!

Congratulations to HPL PhD student Kelsey Barrett, who successfully defended her masters thesis, entitled “Associations between social support and weight change in rural adults during and after a behavioral weight management program.” Great job!  …

Congratulations, Meena Shankar!

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…

Congratulations, Kelsey Barrett!

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!…

Does self-monitoring for weight loss work for everyone?

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, Dr. Ugwoaba!

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 Umelo Ugwoaba, MS MPH!

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…