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. [1]
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
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
- Tel: 01865 725012
- Mob: 07792514830
- Email: laureledmunds@gmail.com
- Website: http://www.laureledmunds.com
