Directors
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Carolyn Black Becker, Ph.D.
Co-Director, Body Project Collaborative San Antonio, Texas 
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Dr. Carolyn Black Becker is a Professor of Psychology at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas and a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in the treatment and prevention of eating disorders and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). She received her PhD from Rutgers University, and completed her clinical internship at Brown University and her post-doctoral fellowship at Dartmouth Medical Center. The primary focus of Dr. Becker’s teaching, research, and clinical work is the implementation of scientifically supported prevention and treatment interventions in clinical and real world settings. She is the author of numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and has co-authored a book on the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder. She also was the lead author for two sister programs to the Body Project: the Reflections: Body Image Program in the United States and the Succeed Body Image Program in the U.K, both of which has been disseminated using a peer-leader approach. Dr. Becker has been conducting research with female athletes since 2007, and her research on the prevention of eating disorders with female athletes has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. She has over a decade of experience implementing and studying peer-led prevention programs and pioneered the use of peers to implement evidence-based prevention programs. Dr. Becker is a member of the Eating Disorder Research Society and a Fellow of the Academy of Eating Disorders (AED). She is also is a past president of the AED and formerly served as associate editor of Behaviour Research and Therapy. In 2009, she was a co-recipient of the AED’s Research-Practice Partnership Award for her work in disseminating empirically supported, dissonance-based body image programming. Dr. Becker also was the 2009 recipient of the Lori Irving Award for Excellence in Eating Disorders Prevention and Awareness granted by the National Eating Disorders Association, and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
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Eric Stice, Ph.D.
Co-Director, Body Project Collaborative Eugene, Oregon 
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Dr. Stice completed a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Arizona State University, an internship at the University of California San Diego, and a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. After serving as an assistant professor and associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin, he accepted a position as Senior Research Scientist at Oregon Research Institute. His research has primarily focused on elucidating factors that increase risk for onset of eating disorders, obesity, depression, and drug abuse as well as the development and evaluation of prevention programs for these conditions. He created an eating disorder prevention program that uses dissonance-induction to reduce a lynchpin risk factor for eating pathology (the Body Project), which has reduced eating disorder risk factors, symptoms, and eating disorder onset in trials conducted by his team and others. This intervention is currently being disseminated to approximately 4 million young women in over 16 countries. He also uses brain-imaging to investigate initial vulnerability factors for obesity and drug abuse, as well as neuroplasticity changes in reward, attention, and inhibitory regions that emerge in response to overeating and using drugs that may maintain these behaviors. Extent findings suggest that individuals at risk for obesity and substance abuse initially show elevated responsivity of brain reward regions and a reward-cue learning propensity, which ironically causes down-regulation of this same neural circuitry after a period of overeating or habitual drug use, leading to blunted reward region response. He has published 194 scientific articles (cited by others over 10,000 times; h = 60), 14 chapters, 6 books, and has received 28 grants to support his research. He received a Career Award from the National Institutes of Health, a Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions to Psychopathology from the American Psychological Association, the Nan Tobler Award from the Society for Prevention Research, and the Lori Irving Award for Excellence in Eating Disorder Prevention and Awareness from the National Eating Disorders Association.
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Alan Duffy, M.S.
Associate Director, Body Project Collaborative Denver, Colorado 
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Alan Duffy is Research Process Coordinator at Eating Recovery Center in Denver, Colorado and a trained professional who specializes in the treatment and prevention of eating disorders. Alan received his MS in Exercise Science and Sport Psychology from Auburn University in Alabama and completed his undergraduate work at the University of Sussex in Brighton, United Kingdom. Prior to his current post, Alan was a clinical Case Manager at Eating Recovery Center for three years. Previously, Alan served as a Health Educator at American University in Washington, DC. He has been collaborating with Dr. Becker and disseminating the Body Project and the former Reflections: Body Image Program since 2007. Alan has significant intervention and research experience with female athletes and served as the past Co-Chair of the Academy for Eating Disorders Sport & Exercise Special Interest Group. At American University Alan collaborated with Dr. Becker and Dr. Tiffany Stewart to receive funding for research with female athletes from the National Institute of Mental Health. Alan is currently a member of the Academy for Eating Disorders Special Interest Group Oversight Committee.
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body project trainers
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Meghan Butryn, Ph.D.
Body Project Trainer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 
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Dr. Meghan Butryn is an Assistant Research Professor of Psychology at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA and a licensed clinical psychologist. She specializes in eating disorders and obesity treatment and prevention. She received her PhD from Drexel University and completed her clinical internship at Brown University. Dr. Butryn is an NIH-funded Principal Investigator of a study that is testing the effectiveness of the Body Project when disseminated on college campuses under real-world conditions. As a principal investigator or co-investigator on four other NIH-funded clinical trials, she has extensive experience developing and evaluating programs that target weight and eating disorders. She has published over 50 manuscripts and regularly presents her work at national research conferences. Dr. Butryn has a decade of experience delivering clinical training and she has provided training and supervision to approximately 75 facilitators of the Body Project.
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Rebecca Greif, Ph.D.
Body Project Trainer New York, New York 
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Dr. Rebecca Greif is a postdoctoral fellow at the Mount Sinai Eating and Weight Disorders Program and a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in the treatment of eating and anxiety disorders. She received her PsyD from the Rutgers University Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology and completed her clinical internship at Montefiore Medical Center. Dr. Greif's primary interest is the advancement and dissemination of empirically supported prevention and treatment interventions, particularly with regard to eating disorders. She has prior experience implementing the Reflections: Body Image Program at Rutgers University. She was also awarded the Academy for Eating Disorders Early Career Investigator Travel Fellowship in 2009.
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Marisol Perez, Ph.D.
Body Project Trainer Tempe, Arizona 
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Dr. Marisol Perez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University. Dr. Perez specializes in the prevention of eating disorders and childhood obesity, with a particular interest in ethnic minorities. She received her PhD in clinical psychology from Florida State University in 2004 and her BS from University of Miami. Dr. Perez began collaborating with Dr. Carolyn Becker in the Reflections: Body Image Program, a sister program to the Body Project, in 2006. She conducted a 4 year effectiveness trial using a train-the-trainer approach for the Reflections program. She is currently conducting a large scale dissemination and implementation, cluster randomized trial of the Body Project at Arizona State University. Dr. Perez is a bilingual, Spanish-speaking, trainer for the Body Project. She recently assisted in the dissemination of the Body Project in Mexico with Comenzar De Nuevo, under the leadership of Dr. Eva Trujillo and Marisa Fernandez de Garcia. Dr. Perez has co-authored over 50 publications and regularly presents her work at national conferences. She is a member of the Academy of Eating Disorders and the Eating Disorder Research Society.
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Paul Rohde, Ph.D.
Body Project Trainer Eugene, Oregon 
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Paul
Rohde, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Scientist at Oregon Research Institute (ORI)
and a licensed psychologist. Working with Dr. Peter Lewinsohn, he received his
Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Oregon in 1988, at which
time he began work at ORI. His research focuses on the epidemiology, treatment,
and prevention of adolescent psychopathology, primarily focused on depression
and eating disorders, with a special interest in the impact of comorbid
conditions. Dr. Rohde has directed or co-directed 25 federally-funded research
projects, including three R01 randomized controlled trials with Dr. Eric Stice
evaluating variants of the Body Project
and two R01 randomized controlled trials with Dr. Stice evaluating various
interventions designed to prevent obesity. He has published over 165
research-based articles, and is a co-author of the updated edition of the Body Project manual (reference: Stice,
E., Rohde, P., & Shaw, H. (2012). The Body Project: A Dissonance-Based
Eating Disorder Prevention Program (updated edition). New York: Oxford
University Press). He has served on several journal review boards and was a
standing member of the National Institute of Mental Health Interventions
Committee for Disorders Involving Children and their Families from 2009-2013.
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Heather Shaw, Ph.D.
Body Project Trainer Eugene, Oregon 
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Dr. Heather Shaw is Senior Research Associate at Oregon Research Institute, where she has been working on eating disorders, depression, and obesity prevention trials since 2002. She received her PhD in Sociology from Arizona State University in 1995. Before coming to ORI, she was a Research Scientist at the American Institutes for Research, was an independent research consultant, and a Research Associate at the University of Texas at Austin. She has co-authored numerous peer-reviewed articles, as well as a book detailing the Body Project, published by Oxford University Press. Currently, she is working on a randomized controlled trial comparing peer-led, clinician-led, and internet versions of the Body Project to a control condition, a dissonance-based obesity prevention trial, and developing a middle school version of the Body Project, and a dissonance-based depression prevention program.
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Lisa Smith Kilpela, Ph.D.
Body Project Trainer San Antonio, Texas 
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Dr. Lisa Smith Kilpela is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Dr. Smith Kilpela specializes in the treatment and prevention of eating disorders, and she also has extensive experience in the treatment of emotion dysregulation in adolescents and adults using Dialectical Behavior Therapy. She received her PhD in clinical psychology from Emory University and completed her clinical internship at Duke University Medical Center. She received her BA from Trinity University in 2004. While an undergraduate student at Trinity, she spent two years collaborating on the development of Reflections: Body Image Program, which is a sister program to the Body Project. As part of her work, she co-developed with Dr. Becker the peer-leader approach utilized in the Reflections program. Since graduating from Trinity, Dr. Smith Kilpela has continued collaborating with Dr. Becker, and she has co-authored numerous publications and conference presentations related to the Reflections program. She is a member of the Academy for Eating Disorders, the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology, and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.
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Chris Ann Meno, Ph.D.
Body Project Trainer Bloomington, Indiana 
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Dr. Chris Ann Meno is a licensed Psychologist and Coordinator of Outreach programs at Indiana University’s Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS). She earned a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2004 after completing her pre-doctoral internship at Indiana University’s CAPS. Dr. Meno co-founded the university’s disordered eating treatment team, the Coalition for Overcoming Problem Eating/Exercise (C.O.P.E.), and regularly provides psychotherapy to students experiencing disordered eating. Prevention and early intervention in negative body-image and disordered eating are of particular interest to Dr. Meno, which led her to be trained in the Reflections: Body Image Program in 2010. Since that time, Dr. Meno has directed efforts with that program and the subsequently renamed, The Body Project, at Indiana University where it won the “Campus Program of the Year” award in 2015.
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Phillippa Diedrichs, Ph.D.
Body Project Trainer Bristol, United Kingdom 
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Dr Phillippa Diedrichs is an Associate Professor in Appearance Research and Health Psychology at the Centre for Appearance Research, University of the West of England (UK). She has a PhD in health psychology from the University of Queensland (Australia). Dr Diedrichs’ research primarily focuses on exploring social and cultural influences on body image, and the development and evaluation of evidence-based body image and eating disorder prevention programs. Her research has garnered international media attention and awards, and has been published in esteemed, academic peer-reviewed journals. Dr Diedrichs co-chaired the Academy for Eating Disorders Body Image and Prevention Special Interest Group from 2010-2014, and she continues to be an active member of the Academy. Dr Diedrichs regularly consults with charities, businesses, policy makers, governments, and politicians in relation to evidence-based body image programming, body image advocacy and health promotion. She is an experienced Body Project trainer, having delivered training to universities and organisations across the UK and Europe. Dr Diedrichs has also undertaken randomised controlled trials to assess the effectiveness of versions of the Body Project in university, school and community settings with adolescents and adults. Dr Diedrichs frequently travels across the UK, Europe, USA, and Australia for research, consultancy and training events.
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Ashley Wood, Psy.D.
Body Project Trainer Chicago, Illinois 
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Dr. Wood is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Eating Recovery Center, Chicago’s Partial Hospitalization Program. Dr. Wood received her Psy.D. from Roosevelt University where her research focused on examining underlying processes of eating disorder symptoms. Dr. Wood's research and clinical interests in eating disorders began when she was an undergraduate at Emory University while working on her senior honors thesis with Linda Craighead, Ph.D. During her graduate training, Dr. Wood completed a practicum at the Center for Eating Disorders PHP/IOP at Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital and completed her clinical internship at Towson University's Counseling Center where she served as an apprentice to the Coordinator of Eating Disorder Services. Dr. Wood has a specific interest in the treatment and prevention of eating disorders within college settings, and has previous experience and training in the implementation of the Body Project at American University, working with Body Project Collaborative Associate Director Alan Duffy, where she also received her Masters of Arts in Psychology.
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Tiffany Brown, Ph.D.
Body Project Trainer San Diego, California 
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Dr. Tiffany Brown is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Eating Disorders Program and a Research Scientist at the San Diego State University (SDSU) Research Foundation. She received her BA from Villanova University and her PhD in clinical psychology from Florida State University. Dr. Brown’s research interests focus on the prevention and treatment of eating disorders and body image. Her dissertation work adapted and evaluated a version of the Body Project for sexual minority males (The PRIDE Body Project). With funding from the Global Foundation for Eating Disorders, she developed and evaluated the Body Project: More than Muscles, for males with body dissatisfaction, regardless sexual orientation. With colleagues at SDSU, Dr. Brown is currently conducting a NIMHD-funded large-scale trial of the PRIDE Body Project for sexual minority males. She is a member of the Academy for Eating Disorders and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.
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