Department of Psychiatry Faculty

Marney A. White, PhD Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Eating Disorders Research Program Yale Psychiatric Research at Congress Place 301 Cedar Street, 2nd Floor PO Box 208098 New Haven, CT 06520 Tel: 203-785-4349 Fax: 203-785-7855 Email: marney.white@yale.edu

Education

B.S., 1991, University of Virginia
M.A., 1998, James Madison University
Ph.D., 2003, Louisiana State University
Clinical Internship, Medical University of South Carolina, 2003
Postdoctoral fellowship, Yale University School of Medicine, 2005

Research Interest

My research focuses on eating disorders and weight management. Current research projects span several interrelated topics:

• Predictors of treatment outcome. These projects seek to identify and test structural models in the etiology and maintenance of eating disturbances, and to identify predictors of treatment outcome for weight loss and/or binge eating.

• The influence of cigarette smoking and history of smoking on factors related to binge eating. Included in this research are investigations of craving and emotional eating among individuals with binge eating problems and a history of smoking.

• Gastric bypass surgery. This research investigates psychosocial characteristics and psychological functioning of gastric bypass surgery patients before and after weight loss.

• Psychometrics. This research aims to improve the psychometric properties of measures assessing various aspects of eating behaviors and features of eating disturbances.

• Woven throughout much of this research are investigations of race/ethnicity, gender, and other potential moderators of the relationship between psychological functioning and obesity and eating disturbances.

Publications of Note

White, M.A., Masheb, R.M. Rothschild, B.S., Burke-Martindale, C.H., & Grilo, C.M. The prognostic significance of regular binge eating in extremely obese gastric bypass patients: 12-month postoperative outcomes. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. In press.

White, M.A. & Grilo, C.M. (2006). Psychiatric comorbidity in binge eating disorder as a function of smoking history. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 67, 594-599.

Grilo, C.M., White, M.A., Masheb, R.M., Rothschild, B.S., & Burke-Martindale, C.H. (2006). Relation of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Other Forms of Maltreatment to 12-Month Post-Operative Outcomes in Extremely Obese Gastric Bypass Patients. Obesity Surgery, 16, 454-460.

Reas, D.L., White, M.A., & Grilo, C.M. (2006). Body checking questionnaire: psychometric properties and clinical correlates in obese men and women with binge eating disorder. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 39, 326-31.

White, M.A., & Grilo, C.M. (2005) Ethnic Differences in the Prediction of Eating and Body Image Disturbances Among Female Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatients. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 38, 78-84.

White, M.A., & Grilo, C.M. (2005). Psychometric properties of the Food Craving Inventory among obese patients with binge eating disorder. Eating Behaviors, 6, 239-245.

Williamson, D.A., Martin, P.D., White, M.A., Newton, R.L., Walden, H.M., York-Crowe, E.E., Alfonso, A., Gordon, S., Ryan, D. (2005). Efficacy of an Internet-based behavioral weight loss program for obese adolescent African-American girls. Eating and Weight Disorders, 10, 193-203.

White, M.A., Martin, P.D., Newton, R.L., Walden, H.M., York-Crowe, E.E., Gordon, S.T., Ryan, D..H., & Williamson, D.A. (2004). Mediators of Weight Loss in a Family-based Intervention Presented over the Internet. Obesity Research, 12, 1050-1059.

White, M.A., O'Neil, P.M., Kolotkin, R.L., & Byrne, T.K. (2004). Gender, Race, and Obesity-Related Quality of Life at Extreme Levels of Obesity. Obesity Research, 12, 949-955.

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