Journal of Obesity and Overweight

Dr. Tiffany Stewart is presently working as an Associate Professor at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center (PBRC) in Baton Rouge, LA, Unites States and a licensed psychologist in the state of Louisiana. She has earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Louisiana State University.  She has a research program that focuses on eating disorders, body image, and obesity, with a focus on the assessment, treatment, and prevention of these issues. She is also a director of the Behavior Technology Laboratory; Eating Disorders and Obesity, at Pennington Biomedical Research Center, and serves as Founder and CSO of Body Evolution Technologies Inc., a VC-funded entrepreneurial venture (formed as a result of scientific discovery at Pennington Biomedical) dedicated to taking e-health assessment, prevention, and treatment technologies from bench to bedside. She has four ongoing body image and eating disorder studies. She has spearheaded unique, large, multi-site prevention studies that have included the development and deployment of novel technologies for behavior change. She is also served as a Co-I for the NIH-sponsored multi-site CALERIE study, overseeing screening and body image and eating safety monitoring via technology, she developed and tested in previous studies (Body Morph Assessment), as well as examining the relationship between calorie restriction, body image, and eating disorder development.

Her research interests are Assessment, Prevention, and Treatment of body image, eating disorders, and obesity, Technology based assessment, prevention/treatment programs for these issues.