DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY
Center for Weight and Eating Disorders
Reneé H. Moore, Ph.D.
Reneé H. Moore, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She holds a primary appointment in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology and due to her collaborative efforts with the Center for Weight and Eating Disorders holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Psychiatry. She received her B.S. in Mathematics from Bennett College and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Biostatistics from Emory University.
Dr. Moore's primary research interests are statistical methods for longitudinal data subject to a limit of detection, clinical trials, and psychiatric methodology, particularly related to weight and eating disorders data. Currently she serves as a biostatistician for a NHLBI funded clinical trial addressing the treatment of childhood sleep apnea and as a co-investigator on three clinical trials related to the treatment of obesity in the primary care setting, one for adolescents and one for adults. In addition, Dr. Moore is a collaborator on numerous ongoing prospective studies and secondary analysis projects including those that examine the interplay of genetic and environmental influences of obesity in children, the treatment of the night eating syndrome, changes in quality of life following bariatric surgery, and psychological aspects of weight loss treatment in adolescents.
Dr. Moore can be contacted at: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 204 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021. Her e-mail address is rhmoore@mail.med.upenn.edu.
Recent publications include:
Fabricatore, A.N., Wadden, T.A., Moore, R.H., Butryn, M.L., Gravallese, E.A., Erondu, N.E., Heymsfield, S.B., and Nguyen, A.M. Attrition from Randomized Controlled Trials of Pharmacological Weight Loss Agents: A Systematic Review and Analysis. Obesity Reviews, in press.
Leibowitz, K.L., Moore, R.H., Stunkard, A.J., Stallings, V.A., Berkowitz, R.I., Stettler, N., Chittams, J.L. and Faith, M.S. Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factor-Associated Waist Circumference Patterns in Children With or Without a Familial Predisposition for Obesity. International Journal of Pediatric Obesity, in press.
Kral, T.V.E., Stunkard, A.J., Berkowitz, R.I., Stallings, V.A., Moore, R.H., and Faith, M.S. Beverage Consumption Patterns of Children Born at Different Risk of Obesity. Obesity, 16: 1802-1808, 2008.
Sarwer, D.B., Wadden, T.A, Moore, R.H., Baker, A.W., Gibbons, L M., Raper, S.E., and Williams, N.N. Preoperative Eating Behavior, Postoperative Dietary Adherence and Weight Loss Following Gastric Bypass Surgery. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, 4(5): 640-646, 2008.
Lyles, R.H., Manatunga, A.K., Moore, R.H, Bowman, F.D., and Cook, C.B. Improving Point Predictions of Random Effects for Subjects at High Risk: A Case Study. Statistics in Medicine, 26: 1285-1300, 2007.