Gary Bennett, Bishop-MacDermott Family Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, shares how to harness technology to prevent obesity and reach high-risk populations.
Gary Bennett is the Bishop-MacDermott Family Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke. He directs the Duke Global Digital Health Science Center and the Duke Obesity Prevention Program. Bennett’s research program designs, tests, and disseminates digital health obesity treatments for the primary care setting.
He developed the interactive obesity treatment approach (iOTA), which has been tested in a range of populations, both domestically and abroad. He has authored more than 100 papers on the
social determinants of obesity and the effectiveness of obesity intervention strategies in high-risk populations.
Bennett has a Ph.D. in clinical health psychology from Duke University and completed a residency at Duke University Medical Center prior to postdoctoral studies in social epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. Prior to joining Duke in 2009, Bennett served on the faculties of the Harvard School of Public Health and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
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22 ноя 2015
