Suzanne Phelan, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Kinesiology at California
Polytechnic State University. She earned her Master's degree and Ph.D. in Clinical
and Health Psychology (2001) from MCP Hahnemann University in Philadelphia, PA. She
completed her internship and postdoctoral fellowship in Behavioral Medicine at Brown
University. She became faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at Brown in 2002 and
currently holds an adjunct Assistant Professor position there. Dr. Phelan's
principal research is on the treatment of obesity by interventions that have included
behavior modification and medications. She is Co-Investigator of the National Weight
Control Registry, which is an ongoing longitudinal study evaluating over 6,000 successful
weight losers. Dr. Phelan is also conducting studies looking at the prevention of
pregnancy-associated weight gain and obesity. She has several publications and numerous
professional presentations in the area of obesity. 

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Physical Activity Patterns Using Accelerometry in the National Weight Control Registry (with Victoria A. Catenacci, Gary K. Grunwald, Jan P. Ingebrigtsen, John M. Jakicic, Michael D. McDermott, Rena R. Wing, James O. Hill, and Holly R. Wyatt), Obesity (2011)

The National Weight Control Registry (NWCR) was established in 1993 to examine characteristics of successful...

 

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Dietary energy density and successful weight loss maintenance (with Hollie A. Raynor, Emily L. Walleghen, Jessica L. Bachman, Shannon M. Looney, and Rena R. Wing), Eating Behaviors (2011)

Research shows a positive relationship between dietary energy density (ED) and body mass index (BMI),...

 

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Practitioner Advice and Gestational Weight Gain (with Maureen G. Phipps, Barbara Abrams, Francine Darroch, Andrew Schaffner, and Rena R. Wing), Journal of Women's Health (2011)

Background: The purpose of this study was to investigate receipt of gestational weight gain advice...

 

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Cognitive Interference From Food Cues in Weight Loss Maintainers, Normal Weight, and Obese Individuals (with Jason Hassenstab, Jeanne M. McCaffery, Lawrence Sweet, Hollie A. Raynor, Ronald A. Cohen, and Rena R. Wing), Obesity (2011)

Much attention has been paid to the behavioral characteristics of successful weight loss maintenance, but...

 

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Prevalence and Predictors of Weight-Loss Maintenance in a Biracial Cohort: Results from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study (with Rena R. Wing, Catherine M. Loria, Yongin Kim, and Cora E. Lewis), American Journal of Preventive Medicine (2010)

Background: Few population-based studies have examined the behavioral and psychosocial predictors of long-term weight-loss maintenance....