Katie Loth
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Credentials
PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor
Biography

Bio

Katie Loth, PhD, MPH, joined the University of Minnesota Department of Family Medicine and Community Health research faculty in 2015. Her research explores social and environmental influences on child and adolescent weight status and disordered eating behaviors. Specifically, she is interested in identifying ways that parents can work to help their children develop and maintain a healthy weight and a healthy relationship with their bodies. Loth is also a dietician and will see patients in clinic and help train residents.

Research Summary

Food parenting practices, child eating behaviors and dietary intake, eating disorders, health behavior change, and food insecurity

Clinical Summary

Dietary intake, food-parenting behaviors, food insecurity, parent-child feeding relationships, eating disorders, body satisfaction, and weight-neutral clinical care.

Contact

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717 Delaware St SE, Room 420
Minneapolis, MN 55414-2959