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Name: Colleen Doyle
Email: doyl0050@umn.edu
Summary
Dr. Barnes is an associate professor and licensed clinical psychologist specializing in eating and weight disorders. Her programmatic line of research focuses on designing and testing the dissemination of specialty care weight-loss and eating disorders treatments into primary care, including nutrition counseling, motivational interviewing
(MI), and cognitive-behavioral therapy, and interrelated studies examining individuals struggling with their weight, disordered eating, and related sequelae such as body image, metabolic syndrome, mood and anxiety, and weight loss surgery. Prior to her current appointment, she was an associate research scientist with the Program for Obesity,
Weight, and Eating Research at the Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Barnes provides outpatient clinical services to the Primary Care Clinic, the Multidisciplinary Weight Management team, and inpatient consultation on medical units at the University of Minnesota Medical Center. She has served as a peer-reviewer for the National Institutes
of Health (NIH), the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), and numerous journals.
PhD, University of Central Florida
Barnes, R.D., White, M.A., Martino, S., and Grilo, C.M. A randomized controlled trial comparing scalable weight loss treatments in primary care. Obesity. 2014;22:2508-2516.,
Barnes, R.D. and Ivezaj, V. A systematic review of motivational interviewing for weight loss in primary care among adults. Obesity Reviews. 2015;16:304-318.,
Barnes, R.D., Ivezaj, V., Pittman, B., and Grilo, C.M. Early weight loss predicts weight loss treatment response regardless of binge-eating disorder status and pretreatment weight change. International Journal of Eating Disorders. 2018;51:558-564.,
Ivezaj, V., Barnes, R.D., Cooper, Z., and Grilo, C.M. Loss-of-control eating after bariatric/sleeve gastrectomy surgery: Similar to binge eating disorder despite differences in binge-eating size. General Hospital Psychiatry. 2018;51:25-30.,
Wiedemann, A.A., Baumgardt, S.S., Ivezaj, V., Kerrigan, S.G., Lydecker, J.A., Grilo, C.M., and Barnes, R.D. Getting a head start: Identifying pre-treatment features associated with early weight loss for individuals participating in weight loss treatment. Translational Behavioral Medicine. 2021; 11:236-243.,
Barnes, R.D., Palmer, B., Hanson, S.K., and Lawson, J.L. Sleep is the best medicine: Assessing sleep, disordered eating, and weight-related functioning. Eating and Weight Disorders: Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia, and Obesity. 2023;28:98.,
Medical Clinical Excellence Honoree, 2021
The Obesity Society’s Bariatric Surgery section poster award, 2017
The Obesity Society’s eHealth/mHealth section poster award, 2014
NIH Clinical Research Loan Repayment Program, 2009
Society for Behavioral Medicine
The Obesity Society