Susan Carnell PhD

Susan Carnell received her BA in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford and completed her PhD on parental feeding style and children's eating behavior at University College London. She was then awarded an ESRC/MRC Interdisciplinary Post-doctoral Research Fellowship, in which she used behavioral and genetic data from a nationwide study of twin children to examine genetic and environmental influences on appetite and obesity.

In 2007 Dr. Carnell moved to the New York Obesity Nutrition Research Center where she developed an interest in neuroendocrine influences on eating behavior and weight. Here she spearheaded two projects examining brain and gut hormone responses to stress and food cues in obese and lean adults with and without Binge Eating Disorder, and was awarded a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence award from NIDDK to investigate fMRI responses to food cues in obese and lean adolescents at high and low familial/genetic risk of obesity.