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Rena Wing is well known for her research on behavioral treatment of obesity and particularly its application to type II diabetes. She has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles on these topics. Currently, she is the principal investigator on the Diabetes Prevention Program and has developed the lifestyle intervention being used in all 27 centers in that study. In addition, she is principal investigator at The Miriam Hospital site for a 15-center trial entitled, Study of Health Outcomes of Weight Loss and serves as chair of this multi-site study. Wing is a member of the council for National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) and serves on the NIDDK Task Force on the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity.
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Rena R. Wing, PhD, is a professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown Medical School and The Miriam Hospital. She is the Director of the Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center. Dr. Wing is well known for her research on behavioral treatment of obesity and particularly its application to type 2 diabetes. She has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles on these topics. Currently, she is principal investigator at The Miriam Hospital site for a fifteen-center NIH-funded trial entitled "Look AHEAD" and serves as chairperson of this multi-site study. Wing has served as a member of the council for NIDDK and is currently on the NIDDK Task Force on the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity.
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 RENA WING, PHD, MA http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Rena_Wing On The Web: Research subjects sought for project to help maintain weight loss New Brown professor establishing weight loss and obesity lab (GSJ of June 26, 1998) First long-range look at the effects of weight-loss on type 2 diabetes Brown researcher leads nation's first long-term look at diabetes and weight loss (GSJ of July 6, 2001) Weight loss research by Rena Wing (GSJ of Dec. 11, 1998) Are you Rena Wing? Click here to edit your research profile. |
