Laurel Devina Edmunds

Dr Laurel Devina Edmunds is a child/adolescent weight management specialist. Her areas of expertise include the psycho-social aspects of childhood obesity, interview-based research, reviewing the prevention and treatment evidence base and helping families with child weight management. She is an independent consultant and researcher. She currently working as a systematic reviewer (University of Teesside), exploring mothers' opinions for a new weaning intervention (RCPCH/University of Warwick) and as a psychologist in the children's obesity clinic at the Bristol Royal Children's Hospital. She runs workshops for health professionals and was one of the 'experts' in ITV's 'Transformed: Overweight Kids' 15th August 2005.

Activities

• Specialist Advisor - House of Commons Health Select Committee Inquiry into obesity 2003-2004
• Co-opted Expert to the NICE guidelines development group 2004
• Author- National childhood obesity weight management guidelines: Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and National Obesity Forum guidelines for primary care and paediatricians 2001-2002
• Member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Research Group on obesity 2003-date
• Member of the Obesity Advisory Panel at Health Development Agency 2002-2003
• Author: of childhood obesity articles in health professionals literature e.g. Obesity in Practice, National Obesity Forum, Young Minds Magazine 2000-date
• Director of The Obesity Awareness and Solutions Trust (TOAST) 2004-date

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