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Past Recipients of the Matina S. Horner, Ph.D. Summer Research Fellowship:

2007

Stacey DiPalma, Brown University School of Medicine
Research Project: Determining the current place of eating disorders in the formal education of medical students

Kamryn Eddy, Ph.D. in clinical psychology, Boston University, 2007
Research Project: Nosology, or diagnostic classification of eating disorders

Loren Gianini, University of New Mexico
Research Project: Individual, familial and social factors that lead an indvidual to internalize the thin ideal

Sarah Merhar, Mount Holyoke College
Research Project: Internship at Neuroendocrinology Clinical Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital

Jolie Weingeroff, Boston University
Research Project: Strategies that indiviudals with eating disorders use to manage distress

2006

Lareina La Flair, Medical Education Department, Harvard Medical School
Research Project: Relationship between sexual assault and eating disorders in Asian women

Naomi Ray-Schoenfeld, Wesleyan University
Research Project: Internship at Neuroendocrinology Clinical Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital

Dana Satir, Boston University
Research Project: Clinicians' reactions to working with adolescents with eating disorders

2005

Maria Cristina Cruza-Guet, Lehigh University
Research Project: An examination of the National Eating Disorders Screening Program

Natalie Freed, University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
Research Projects: Neuroendocrine modulation of metabolic effects in overweight adolescents; Effects of anorexia nervosa on peak bone mass; Growth hormone suppression in healthy children following administration of an oral glucose load

Monica Hsiung Wojcik, Princeton University
Research Project: Abnormalities of the growth hormone and IGF-I Axis in anorexia nervosa

Maria-Christina Stewart, University of Hawaii
Research Project: Public perceptions of women with anorexia nervosa

2004

Maria Frisch, University of Minnesota
Research Projects: Descriptive study of residential eating disorder treatment programs and study on arts-based therapies and eating disorders

Cori Kraus, Brandeis University
Research Project: Alcohol and drug use disorders in women with eating disorders

Rama Mulukutla, Meharry Medical College
Research Project: Androgen deficiency and osteopenia in anorexia nervosa


2003

Alison Hwong, Brown University
Research Project: Effects of Testosterone and Actonel on Bone Density and Anorexia Nervosa


2002

Emily Delf, Boston University
Research Project: Cognitive Function in Women with Anorexia Nervosa

Carli Jacobs, Georgia State University
Research Project: A Prospective Study of Personality and Disordered Eating in an Ethnically Diverse Sample of College Women


2001

Lisa Rubin, Arizona State University
Research Project-Against the Grain: Exploring African American and Latina Womens Strategies for Resisting and Accomodating Mainstream Beauty Ideals

Dara Greenwood, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Research Project: The Role of Attachment Style in the Media-Eating Disorders Equation


2000

Eileen P. Anderson, Ed.M., Harvard Graduate School of Education
Research Project: Culture, Body Image, and Eating Disorders in Belize

Valerie E. Charat, Harvard University
Research Project: The Role of Compulsive Exercise and Restrictive Eating in Women with Eating Disorders

Mary Beth Gordon, Harvard Medical School
Research Project: The Effects of Testosterone on Functional Brain Abnormalities in Women with Anorexia Nervosa

Abby Slate, Mount Holyoke College
Research Project: Eating and Dieting Behaviors Among College Women


1999

Gina Escamilla, Harvard School of Public Health
Research Project: Ethnicity and Adolescent Girls Response to Print Media: Implications for Self and Body Image

Abigail Judge, Brandeis University
Research Project: Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa in an Era of Managed Care


1998

S. Bryn Austin, D.Sc., Harvard School of Public Health
Research Project: A Prospective Study of Smoking and Dieting in Early Adolescents

Susan Rushing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Project: Biological Substrates that Contribute to Childhood Anorexia Nervosa Onset


1997

Cara James, Harvard University
Research Project: Body Image and Disordered Eating Among African-American Women