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Featured Presentations & Flash Talks by Track

Obesity Track

Featured Presentations: Lebow College of Business, GHALL 108

1:00-1:10 p.m. David Sarwer – “Strategies to address weight regain after bariatric surgery”
1:10-1:20 p.m. Kelly Allison - “Impact of the timing of eating on weight and metabolism”

Flash Talks: Lebow College of Business, GHALL 108

1:25-1:30 p.m. Hoori Rafieian – “Variety counts: How variety is perceived in the presence of self-regulatory goals”
1:30-1:35 p.m. Delia Sudler – “Perceived barriers and facilitators of weight loss among African American ENACT participants”
1:35-1:40 p.m. Savannah Roberts – “Hedonic hunger as potential barrier to success in behavioral weight loss”
1:40-1:45 p.m. Danielle Moskow – “Not just for weight loss: A comparison of acceptance based and standard behavioral treatment in improving quality of life and mood”
1:45-1:50 p.m. Leah Schumacher – “Understanding target engagement and mechanisms of action in acceptance-based behavioral treatment for obesity”
1:50-1:55 p.m. Lydia Hackenberg – “Exploring the relationship between childhood adversity, hedonic hunger and obesity in pre-operative bariatric patients”
1:55-2:00 p.m. Rebecca Crochiere – “Executive function moderates the relation between momentary affective and physical states and subsequent dietary lapses”
2:00-2:05 p.m. Chantelle Hart – “Enhancing sleep as a novel approach for pediatric weight regulation”
2:05-2:10 p.m. Edward Lieber – “Can just-in-time adaptive interventions improve self-efficacy to prevent dietary lapses?”
2:10-2:15 p.m. Diane Dallal – “Development of a measure of values clarity in a sample seeking behavioral weight loss treatment”
2:15-2:20 p.m. Tinashe Tapera – “Novel neighborhood-based classification algorithms for dietary lapse detection”
2:20-2:25 p.m. Mary Martinelli – “Baseline executive functioning predicts weight loss and physical activity outcomes in a lifestyle modification program”
2:25-2:30 p.m. Gerald Martin – “Preventing dietary lapses in response to social situations: remote treatment in the form of a just-in-time adaptive intervention for weight loss”

Eating Disorders Track

Featured Presentations: Lebow College of Business, GHALL 209

1:00-1:15 p.m. Eunice Chen – “Early rapid response as a predictor of treatment outcomes”
1:15-1:30 p.m. Kathryn Godfrey – “Psychophysiology of stress among individuals with obesity and loss of control eating”

Flash Talks: Lebow College of Business, GHALL 209

1:30-1:35 p.m. Helen Murray – “Prevalence in primary school youth of pica and rumination behavior: The understudied feeding disorders”
1:35-1:40 p.m. Jessica Knapp – “The female athlete and the dynamic relationship between drive for leanness, drive for muscularity, drive for thinness, and disordered eating at the high school, DI, DII, and DIII sporting levels”
1:40-1:45 p.m. Madeline Lagacey – “Baseline data analysis of risk and protective factors of disordered eating behavior in college freshmen athletes”
1:45-1:50 p.m. Kelsey Clark – “Overlap in measures of maladaptive avoidance and intolerance of negative emotional states: Implications for eating disorder treatment research”
1:50-1:55 p.m. Britt Evans – “A longitudinal examination of prospective predictors of disordered eating attitudes: The role of impulsivity”
1:55-2:00 p.m. Rudrajit Sinha – “Compulsive exercise and disordered eating in university students”
2:00-2:05 p.m. Janell Mensinger – “Mechanisms of change in disordered eating after participating in a healthy living program for women with high body mass index”
2:05-2:10 p.m. Rowan Hunt – “Self-harm and experiential avoidance in a treatment-seeking population”
2:10-2:15 p.m. Megan Parker – “Identifying a subset of overweight and obese emotional eaters with co-occurring loss of control eating episodes”
2:15-2:20 p.m. Lexie Convertino – “Emotional eating in obesity: Who experiences the benefits of treatment?”

Eating Behavior and Physical Activity Track

Featured Presentations: Lebow College of Business, GHALL 406

1:00-1:10 p.m. Shiriki Kumanyika – “Sensitizing consumers to their food environments”
1:10-1:20 p.m. Jennifer Nasser – “Effect of sugar content on electroretinographic b wave response to tasting chocolate”
1:20-1:30 p.m. Mark Stehr - “Making Plans to go to the gym: Evidence from a randomized field experiment”

Flash Talks: Lebow College of Business, GHALL 406

1:30-1:35 p.m. Lisa Lanza – “Protein Preloads And Cognitive Restraint Effect Brain Activity In Men and Women During Eating”
1:35-1:40 p.m. Eram Albajri – “Sex and menstrual cycle phases modulate the prefrontal cortex response during eating as measured by fNIRS”
1:40-1:45 p.m. Ryan Quinn – “Milk taste tests may encourage consumers to switch to lower-fat milk”
1:45-1:50 p.m. Jocelyn Remmert – “Pilot test of an acceptance-based behavioral intervention to promote physical activity among adolescents”
1:50-1:55 p.m. Evanette Burrows – “Calculating the rate of injury among individuals engaged in CrossFit training using range variables in survey data”
1:55-2:00 p.m. Christine Call – “Behavioral and Psychological factors that may counteract physical activity in a behavioral weight loss sample”
2:00-2:05 p.m. Samantha Sininsky – “Enjoyment of physical activity as a predictor of greater weight loss”
2:05-2:10 p.m. Rui Wang – “Increasing fruit and vegetable expenditures and consumption among SNAP participants: National farmers market inventive program RCT results”
2:10-2:15 p.m. Sarah Green – “Evaluating healthy vending policies in four municipalities”
2:15-2:20 p.m. Brean Flynn Witmer – “The impact of healthy marketing strategies in supermarkets: evaluating the use of placement and promotions”
2:20-2:25 p.m. Donna Palhamus Giordano – “Changes in sugary and artificially sweetened diet beverage prices due to the Philadelphia beverage tax”