Can Mobile Technologies Improve Obesity Treatment?

Trent Hall, Room 040

Can Mobile Technologies Improve Obesity Treatment?

Trent Hall, Room 040

Join us for a Global Health Exchange lecture, sponsored by DGHI. This event is free and open to the public so please spread the word to your colleagues and friends. Light lunch will be served.

About the lecture:
Obesity has become a major global health challenge. Rapid proliferation of mobile technologies (e.g., text messaging, smartphone apps, wearable fitness trackers, connected mobile scales) has greatly increased the possibilities for enhancing obesity treatment and prevention efforts, both in the U.S. and globally. This talk will provide an overview of interventions targeting obesity using mobile Health approaches and suggestions for future research.

About the speaker:
Dori Steinberg is a Research Scholar at DGHI with the Duke Digital Health Science Center. She is a nutrition researcher with an emphasis on obesity and behavioral interventions. Steinberg is also a Registered Dietitian and received a Masters in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health and a PhD in Nutrition from UNC Chapel Hill. Her research focuses primarily on technology-based interventions for weight control in adults. In particular, how we can leverage connected mobile devices to improve adherence to behaviors such as self-monitoring diet and weight.  More recently, she has explored the spillover effects of these interventions on outcomes such as depression and quality of life, as well as ways to implement these interventions into primary care and other settings with high potential for dissemination.