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Dr. Deborah Sepinwall is an
Investigator in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown Medical School. Dr. Sepinwall received her B.A. in Psychology from McGill University in 1994 and her PhD Degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Vermont in 2001. In the same year, she completed her Clinical Psychology Internship at Temple University Health Sciences Center and during 2001-2003, completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at The Miriam Hospital and Brown Medical School, working with Dr. Belinda Borelli.
Dr. Sepinwall has a strong clinical background related to behavioral treatment of obesity. Her research interests have focused on treatment fidelity, optimism and health outcome, and smoking cessation. From August 2001-2003, Dr. Sepinwall served as the Project Director on an NIH-funded smoking cessation study comparing the ability of two theoretical models to predict smoking cessation in smokers whose children have asthma. She has published several peer reviewed scientific articles. She has assumed a leadership role at the Center on two NIH-funded research projects: one related to prevention of weight regain in successful weight losers and the other testing the effects of weight loss on urinary incontinence and developing a motivational approach to improve long-term maintenance of weight loss.
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Deborah Sepinwall, Ph.D. Investigator, Brown Medical School; Staff Psychologist, The Miriam Hospital dsepinwall@lifespan.org |