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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 a number of specialty clinics such as Neurology. She has served as a peer-reviewer for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), and numerous journals.