DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY
Center for Weight and Eating Disorders
Myles Faith, Ph.D.
Dr. Faith is Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Additionally, he is Assistant Director of the Obesity Unit at Penn’s Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism (IDOM).
Dr. Faith’s research focuses on the development of child food preferences, eating styles, and body weight. Dr. Faith studies the interplay of genetic and environmental influences on child eating patterns, parent-child feeding dynamics, and the measurement of child appetite and satiety. He also conducts childhood obesity treatment and prevention studies.
He is active in different professional organizations concerning child health and development, and is past Chair of the “Pediatric Obesity Interest Group” for the North American Association for the Study of Obesity (NAASO), The Obesity Society. He is a past Associate Editor for the Obesity, and currently serves on the editorial boards for Obesity, the International Journal of Pediatric Obesity, and other journals. He serves on the Nutrition Committee for the American Heart Association’s Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism (NPAM), and was a standing member of the NIH Psychosocial Risk and Disease Prevention Study Section.
Recent publications include:
Faith, M.S., Storey, M., Kral, T.V.E., Pietrobelli, A. The Feeding Demands Questionnaire (FEEDS): Assessment of parental demand cognitions concerning parent-child feeding relations. Journal of the American Dietetic Association 108: 624-630, 2008.
Faith , M.S., Rhea, S.A., Corley, R.P., Hewitt, J.K. Genetic and shared environmental influences on children’s 24-hour eating patterns: Gender differences at age 7 years. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 87: 903-911, 2008.
Tanofsky-Kraff, M., Ranzenhofer, L.M., Yanovski, S.Z., Schvey, N.A., Faith, M.S., Gustofson, J., Yanovski, J.A., Psychometric Properties of a New Questionnaire to Assess Eating in the Absence of Hunger in Children and Adolescents. Appetite 51: 148-155, 2008.
Faith, M.S., Fontaine, K.R., Baskin, M.L., Allison, D.B. Toward the reduction of population obesity: macrolevel environmental approaches to the problems of food, eating, and obesity. Psychological Bulletin 133: 205-226, 2007.
Faith, M.S. Behavioral science and the study of gene-nutrition and gene-physical activity interactions in obesity research. Obesity 16 (Suppl): S82-84, 2008.