08/25/2016
The University of Chicago Eating Disorders Program would like to give a warm welcome to our three Post-Doctoral Fellows! We are excited to have Dr. Lindsay Bodell and Dr. Karen Jennings join our program for the first time, and to have Dr. Andrea Kass continue to collaborate with us! Learn more about our Post-Doctoral Fellows below:
Dr. Lindsay Bodell is a new Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Chicago Eating Disorders Program. She recently received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Florida State University. Her research is focused on psychological and biological factors that influence the development and maintenance of eating disorders, especially eating disorders characterized by binge eating and purging behaviors.
Dr. Karen Jennings is a T32 Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at The University of Chicago. She received her B.A. in Psychology from Amherst College, her M.S. in Nursing from Boston College and her Ph.D. in Nursing from Boston College. She is certified as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse in the specialty of Family Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing. She is a scholar of the Jonas Nurse Leaders Scholar Program, a fellow of the Robert Wood Johnson New Careers in Nursing Scholarship, and a recipient of the Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship Award. Dr. Jennings’ primary research interests include identifying mechanisms (e.g., emotion regulation, personality) associated with the process of weight restoration, and developing novel assessments and interventions to promote and maintain weight restoration.
Andrea Kass, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow in the Eating Disorders Program. Her research focuses on the treatment and prevention of eating disorders and obesity, with a particular interest in evaluating ways to scale access to evidence-based care. She is currently funded through a NICHD F32 fellowship to conduct an economic evaluation of behavioral treatments for pediatric obesity. Andrea completed her doctoral training at Washington University in St. Louis and her clinical internship at The University of Chicago.
