CONTRIBUTOR:

Kelly R. Theim

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Postdoctoral Fellow

DEPARTMENT:

Medical & Clinical Psychology

INSTITUTION:

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

BIOGRAPHY:

Dr. Kelly Theim is a postdoctoral fellow at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in the Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology. Dr. Theim works jointly at USUHS with Marian Tanofsky-Kraff, PhD, and in the Section on Growth and Obesity at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development with Jack A. Yanovski, MD, PhD. She earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 2012 from Washington University in St. Louis and completed her clinical internship at the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Theim's clinical training has been broad-based, with a focus on psychosocial correlates of negative health behaviors. Her primary research interests include the etiology and treatment of eating behaviors that pose risk for excessive weight gain among youth, including loss of control (LOC) eating. Dr. Theim is employed by the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine.