MOST Framework | Speaker Dr. Bonnie Spring
Bonnie Spring, Ph.D.
Bonnie Spring is a clinical health psychologist, Professor of Preventive Medicine, Psychology and Psychiatry at Northwestern University and Director of the Institute for Public Health and Medicine’s Center for Behavior and Health. She studies technology-assisted interventions to promote healthy change in multiple chronic disease behavioral risk factors (e.g., suboptimal diet, physical inactivity, obesity, smoking) in research that has been continuously NIH-funded for more than 30 years. A past president of the Society for Behavioral Medicine (SBM), she received SBM’s Distinguished Scientist, Distinguished Research Mentor, Research to Practice Translation, Outstanding Optimization Research, and Distinguished Leadership awards, and is founding editor of its journal, Translational Behavioral Medicine: Practice, Policy, Research.
A winner of The Obesity Society’s e-Health Pioneer Award and past chair of American Heart Association’s Behavior Change Committee and the American Psychological Association’s (APA’s) Board of Scientific Affairs, she is also recipient of APA Presidential Citations for Innovative Research and Leadership in Health Psychology and Vision in Incorporating Technology into Practice and Training.
Her current research is supported by an NCI P50 to integrate telehealth treatment of multiple health risk behaviors into health care delivery and by R01s developing adaptive interventions for successful obesity treatment and weight loss maintenance. She has been primary mentor for 42 individual training awards, and 56 of her former mentees hold academic appointments.
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