Health Lab Presents at Society of Behavioral Medicine Conference
4.2.2024
Dr. Crochiere and three Health Lab research assistants, Daedalus, Devika, and Ashley, showcased their work at the 45th Annual Society of Behavioral Medicine conference in Philadelphia. Dr. Crochiere gave a talk on the impact of sleep on physical activity among behavioral weight loss participants. The research assistants each presented posters on topics including behavioral weight loss programs, heavy drinking, self-efficacy, binge eating, and social support.
Crochiere Lab to Join Forces with MyFitnessPal, Empowered by White House Conference to Combat Food Insecurity
5.16.2023
Dr. Rebecca Crochiere's health psychology lab is thrilled to announce its partnership with MyFitnessPal in upcoming study. In collaboration with the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, MyFitnessPal has committed to offer one million MyFitnessPal Premium memberships to at-risk Americans nationwide by 2030 -- for free. We are honored to be a part of this initiative, learn more here.
Crochiere awarded Outstanding Dissertation Award
4.28.2023
Dr. Rebecca Crochiere, the principal investigator of the Health Lab, was awarded the Society of Behavioral Medicine's Outstanding Dissertation Award for her work on the intraday relation between physical activity and dietary intake.
Crochiere presented at Society of Behavioral Medicine
4.28.2023
Dr. Rebecca Crochiere, the principal investigator of the Health Lab, presented her dissertation findings at the Society of Behavioral Medicine conference in Phoenix, AZ.
RA wins national statistics competition
3.24.2023
Ashley was recently nationally awarded for the Top 5 papers submitted to the 2023 Undergraduate Statistics Project Competition (USPROC), under the Undergraduate Statistics Class Project Competition (USCLAP) category.
Her paper was entitled Multivariate Logistic Regression for the Prediction of Coronary Heart Disease. For the paper, she constructed a heart disease prediction model. She also created a user-friendly interactive web application to go along with her final model.
She will present her work at the 2023 Electronic Undergraduate Statistics Research Conference.
Ashley's Summer 2023
Ashley will be heading to the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University's Medical Center as research intern. She was awarded the REU scholarship from the National Science Foundation to fund her experience.
At Vanderbilt, Ashley will be investigating the intersection between health data, healthcare, biology, statistics, and computer science, in order to develop better health/disease prediction models for patients. In addition to pursuing an independent project, Ashley will be assisting Dr.s Allison McCoy & Adam Wright in developing a better prediction model for prostate cancer.
Ivy's Summer 2023
Ivy will be joining the Center for Weight, Eating, and Lifestyle Science (WELL Center), at Drexel University during the summer of 2023 as a research assistant in the Minority Pipeline for Obesity and Eating Disorder Research (mPOWER) fellowship. The WELL Center is dedicated to interdisciplinary clinical research on behavioral and technological solutions to the problems of obesity, poor diet, sedentariness, and disordered eating. Ivy will be working with Dr. Paakhi Srivastava and Dr. Adrienne Juarascio to investigate factors associated with the maintenance of eating pathology as well as behavioral treatments for eating disorders and obesity.