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Alumni
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
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