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* Member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Research Group on obesity 2003-date  
 
* 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  
 
* 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  
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* 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
 
* Director of [[The Obesity Awareness and Solutions Trust]] (TOAST) 2004-date
  
  
 
== Publications ==
 
== Publications ==
 
  
 
Edmunds website lists her publications including papers, book chapters and commissioned reporst. Most of these cover childhood obesity.
 
Edmunds website lists her publications including papers, book chapters and commissioned reporst. Most of these cover childhood obesity.
<ref> http://www.laureledmunds.com/publications.php#reports accessed 20 December </ref>
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Some of these publications have ben joinylt produced with Summerbell a member of the [[Association for the Study of Obesity]].<ref> http://www.laureledmunds.com/publications.php#reports accessed 20 December </ref>
  
 
== Contact details ==
 
== Contact details ==

Revision as of 19:23, 20 December 2007

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. [1]


Activities


Publications

Edmunds website lists her publications including papers, book chapters and commissioned reporst. Most of these cover childhood obesity. Some of these publications have ben joinylt produced with Summerbell a member of the Association for the Study of Obesity.[2]

Contact details

  • http://www.laureledmunds.com/ accessed 20 December 2007
  • http://www.laureledmunds.com/publications.php#reports accessed 20 December