CONTRIBUTOR:

Lisa M. Ranzenhofer

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Graduate Student

DEPARTMENT:

Medical & Clinical Psychology

INSTITUTION:

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

BIOGRAPHY:

Lisa Ranzenhofer is a graduate student at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), in the dual-track medical and clinical psychology program. She received her bachelor of science at Cornell University in 2005. She completed a 2-year post-baccalaureate fellowship at the National Institutes of Health prior to entering graduate school at USUHS. Lisa's master's thesis examined the impact of binge eating on weight loss treatment outcome among overweight adolescents with medical comorbidities. She is currently conducting her dissertation research involving an examination of momentary interpersonal, affective, and physiologic precipitants of loss of control eating among at-risk for overweight adolescent girls. Lisa's research interests include child development and eating disorders. She is currently completing a clinical internship at Alpert Medical School of Brown University.