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


2009

Margo Genderson, Boston University
Research Project: Reviewing the literature on eating disorders and their associated psychiatric conditions, focusing on shared genetic and environmental influences

Lauren Kronenfeld, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research Project: Studying measures of body image assessment across racial and ethnic groups through a literature review

Jason Lavender, University at Albany, SUNY
Research Project: Examining how patterns of binge eating and purging progress over time in women with anorexia and bulimia

Zack Lipsman, Harvard University Extension School
Research Project: In conjunction with the MGH Neuroendocrine Unit, exploring whether the changes in stress and appetite regulating hormones exhibited in anorexia nervosa are associated with specific genes


2008

Michele Crisafulli, Boston University
Research Project: Examining the effects that different messages have on the public's perceptions of individuals with anorexia nervosa

Kyle De Young, University at Albany, State University of New York
Research Project: Investigating at what level behavioral symptoms may be present during periods of remission but not be predictive of future relapse

Jacob McGrane, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Project: Working with the MGH Neuroendocrine Department on studies involving therapeutic strategies for reducing bone loss in anorexia nervosa


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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