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MANAGING OBESITY BY COMBINING BEHAVIORAL WEIGHT LOSS AND COMMERCIAL APPROACHES

Award Number: K23DK075645
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES & DIGESTIVE & KIDNEY DISEASES
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: TRAINING/TRAINEESHIP
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/01/2007
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 08/31/2011

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MANAGING OBESITY BY COMBINING BEHAVIORAL WEIGHT LOSS AND COMMERCIAL APPROACHES - DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Award (K23) is to provide Dr. Angela Pinto with the opportunity to develop the expertise needed to become an independent scientist studying cost-effective behavioral treatments for obesity. This training plan outlines a combination of didactic and direct mentored training experiences that will provide Dr. Pinito with the opportunity to develop and enhance skills in the following areas: the public health model of obesity and obesity treatment; behavioral approaches to weight regulation; methodology, statistics, and ethics of clinical obesity research; and the standards and techniques of cost-effectiveness analysis and their application to behavioral weight loss trials. Dr. Pinto will work closely with her primary mentor, Dr. Rena Wing, and her co-mentors, Drs. William Herman, Mark Schleinitz, Joseph Fava, and Robert Jeffery, throughout the course of this award. The resources at the Miriam Hospital/Brown Medical School, combined with the expertise of her mentoring team will provide Dr. Pinto with the ideal environment in which to achieve her training and research goals. Obesity is a major public health problem in the United States. University/hospital-based behavioral weight loss programs are the gold standard for moderate obesity, but they are costly to run and have limited accessibility to the majority of individuals seeking weight loss. Commercial weight loss programs offer widely recognized, highly accessible, and affordable treatment, but produce weight losses that are markedly less than those achieved in university/hospital based treatment. The scope of the obesity epidemic demands behavioral weight loss treatment that is both clinically effective and cost-effective for individuals who want to lose weight. Therefore, the purpose of this investigation is to develop and evaluate a cost-effective treatment for obesity that integrates the clinical effectiveness of behavioral weight loss interventions with the accessibility of the Weight Watchers commercial program. In this 12-month trial, 198 men and women with a BMI of 27-40 will be randomly assigned to receive standard behavioral weight loss, Weight Watchers, or a combination treatment. The long-term goal of this research is to expand the public health reach of cost-effective obesity treatment through increased collaboration between university/hospital-based behavioral weight loss programs and commercial weight loss organizations.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2010 ( Subtotal = $160,008 )
2010	2010	CUNY, RESEARCH FOUNDATION	230 WEST 41ST STREET	NEW YORK	NY	10036	NEW YORK	USA	Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research	000	4	8/19/2010	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$160,008
														Subtotal = $160,008

Issue Date FY: 2009 ( Subtotal = $160,008 )
2009	2009	CUNY, RESEARCH FOUNDATION	230 WEST 41ST STREET	NEW YORK	NY	10036	NEW YORK	USA	Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research	000	3	8/4/2009	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$160,008
														Subtotal = $160,008

Issue Date FY: 2008 ( Subtotal = $159,944 )
2008	2008	CUNY, RESEARCH FOUNDATION	230 WEST 41ST STREET	NEW YORK	NY	10036	NEW YORK	USA	Digestive Diseases and Nutrition Research	000	2	7/25/2008	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$159,944
														Subtotal = $159,944

Issue Date FY: 2007 ( Subtotal = $159,944 )
2007	2007	CUNY, RESEARCH FOUNDATION	230 WEST 41ST STREET	NEW YORK	NY	10036	NEW YORK	USA	Digestive Diseases and Nutrition Research	000	1	8/31/2007	NEW	$159,944
														Subtotal = $159,944

Grand Total All Awards = $639,904

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MANAGING OBESITY BY COMBINING BEHAVIORAL WEIGHT LOSS AND COMMERCIAL APPROACHES

Award Number: K23DK075645

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES & DIGESTIVE & KIDNEY DISEASES

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: TRAINING/TRAINEESHIP

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/01/2007

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 08/31/2011

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