Laurel Devina Edmunds

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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]

Qualifications

  • Ph.D. University of Exeter 1994-1999

Primary prevention in children at risk of obesity as adults.

  • PGCE University of Bristol 1991-1992

Biology with integrated science

  • M.Sc University of Bath 1987-1988

Applied Biological Sciences with Business Studies

  • B.Sc. (Hons) 2i University of Plymouth 1983-1986

Biological Sciences

  • Art Foundation Course Staffordshire University 1981-1982


Awards

  • University of Oxford, Merit Award 2002

Association for the Study of Obesity, Junior Researcher Prize 1999

  • University of Exeter, 3 year PhD Scholarship 1994-1997

MAFF, Scholarship for MSc 1987-1988


Activities


Publications

Edmunds' website lists her publications including papers, book chapters and commissioned reports. Most of these articles cover childhood obesity. Some of these publications have been jointly produced with Professor Carolyn Summerbell PhD, 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