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 jointly produced with Professor Carolyn Summerbell PhD, 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
