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Katherine W. Bauer, PhD, MS

Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health

Assistant Professor, Center for Obesity Research and Education

Telephone:  215-707-8659

Fax: 215-707-6475

Email: katherine.bauer@temple.edu

Department of Public Health

Center for Obesity Research and Education

BA (high honors), Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, 1998

 

MS, Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 2002

 

Predoctoral Fellow, Adolescent Health Protection Research Training Program, School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MD, 2005-2009

 

PhD, Epidemiology (specializing in Behavioral Epidemiology), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2010

 

Postdoctoral Fellow, Minnesota Obesity Prevention Training Program, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2010-2011

 

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Dr. Bauer’s research focuses on identifying behavioral, social, and environmental determinants of children’s and adolescents’ weight status, and the development and evaluation of interventions to decrease youth’s risk for obesity and obesity-related health outcomes. Much of her work focuses on the role of families in children’s nutrition behaviors and obesity risk, including understanding how the family environment influences children’s behavior, as well as how factors such as employment patterns, food security, and neighborhood resources affect parents’ ability to build a family environment that encourages children’s healthful weight maintenance.

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• Selected Participant, Dannon Institute’s Nutrition Leadership Institute, 2011
• University of Minnesota Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (provided tuition, benefits, and annual stipend of $22,000), 2009-2010
• Travel Award ($650) to American Public Health Association Annual
  Conference, 2009
• J.B. Hawley Student Research Award ($7,500), University of Minnesota, 2007-2008
• Administrator’s Award for contributions to the Adolescent Mental Health
  Promotion Program, Hennepin County, Minnesota, 2005
• Stetson-Heiser Prize for Work in Psychology, Oberlin College, 2009
• Jerome Davis Grant for Research in the Social Sciences,
  Oberlin College, 1998
  

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Recent Medically Related Publications, Obtained from PubMed (Click on PubMed ID to view abstract)

23250194. Graham DJ, Bauer KW, Friend S, Barr-Anderson DJ, Nuemark-Sztainer D, Personal, Behavioral, and Socio-Environmental Correlates of Physical Activity Among Adolescent Girls: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Associations. J Phys Act Health :()2012 Dec 17

23079171. Bauer KW, Hearst MO, Earnest AA, French SA, Oakes JM, Harnack LJ, Energy content of U.S. fast-food restaurant offerings: 14-year trends. Am J Prev Med 43:5(490-7)2012 Nov

22717180. Friend S, Bauer KW, Madden TC, Neumark-Sztainer D, Self-weighing among adolescents: associations with body mass index, body satisfaction, weight control behaviors, and binge eating. J Acad Nutr Diet 112:1(99-103)2012 Jan

22594740. Bauer KW, Widome R, Himes JH, Smyth M, Rock BH, Hannan PJ, Story M, High food insecurity and its correlates among families living on a rural American Indian Reservation. Am J Public Health 102:7(1346-52)2012 Jul

22591825. Bauer KW, Hearst MO, Escoto K, Berge JM, Neumark-Sztainer D, Parental employment and work-family stress: associations with family food environments. Soc Sci Med 75:3(496-504)2012 Aug

22423466. Bauer KW, Berge JM, Neumark-Sztainer D, The importance of families to adolescents' physical activity and dietary intake. Adolesc Med State Art Rev 22:3(601-13, xiii)2011 Dec

22071397. Nelson TF, Stovitz SD, Thomas M, LaVoi NM, Bauer KW, Neumark-Sztainer D, Do youth sports prevent pediatric obesity? A systematic review and commentary. Curr Sports Med Rep 10:6(360-70)2011 Nov-Dec

22055079. Friend S, Bauer KW, Madden TC, Neumark-Sztainer D, Self-Weighing among Adolescents: Associations with Body Mass Index, Body Satisfaction, Weight Control Behaviors, and Binge Eating. J Am Diet Assoc :()2011 Nov 3

22013514. Bauer KW, Friend S, Graham DJ, Neumark-Sztainer D, Beyond Screen Time: Assessing Recreational Sedentary Behavior among Adolescent Girls. J Obes 2012:(183194)2012

21856524. Bauer KW, Laska MN, Fulkerson JA, Neumark-Sztainer D, Longitudinal and secular trends in parental encouragement for healthy eating, physical activity, and dieting throughout the adolescent years. J Adolesc Health 49:3(306-11)2011 Sep

21561821. Loth KA, Bauer KW, Wall M, Berge J, Neumark-Sztainer D, Body satisfaction during pregnancy. Body Image 8:3(297-300)2011 Jun

21536714. Bauer KW, Neumark-Sztainer D, Hannan PJ, Fulkerson JA, Story M, Relationships between the family environment and school-based obesity prevention efforts: can school programs help adolescents who are most in need? Health Educ Res 26:4(675-88)2011 Aug

21482603. Berge JM, Larson N, Bauer KW, Neumark-Sztainer D, Are parents of young children practicing healthy nutrition and physical activity behaviors? Pediatrics 127:5(881-7)2011 May

21477508. Bauer KW, Neumark-Sztainer D, Fulkerson JA, Story M, Adolescent girls' weight-related family environments, Minnesota. Prev Chronic Dis 8:3(A68)2011 May

21453516. Bauer KW, Neumark-Sztainer D, Fulkerson JA, Hannan PJ, Story M, Familial correlates of adolescent girls' physical activity, television use, dietary intake, weight, and body composition. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 8:(25)2011 Mar 31

21273132. Heim S, Bauer KW, Stang J, Ireland M, Can a community-based intervention improve the home food environment? parental perspectives of the influence of the delicious and nutritious garden. J Nutr Educ Behav 43:2(130-4)2011 Mar-Apr

20965379. Neumark-Sztainer DR, Friend SE, Flattum CF, Hannan PJ, Story MT, Bauer KW, Feldman SB, Petrich CA, New moves-preventing weight-related problems in adolescent girls a group-randomized study. Am J Prev Med 39:5(421-32)2010 Nov

20708566. Neumark-Sztainer D, Bauer KW, Friend S, Hannan PJ, Story M, Berge JM, Family weight talk and dieting: how much do they matter for body dissatisfaction and disordered eating behaviors in adolescent girls? J Adolesc Health 47:3(270-6)2010 Sep

19816417. Berge JM, Wall M, Bauer KW, Neumark-Sztainer D, Parenting characteristics in the home environment and adolescent overweight: a latent class analysis. Obesity (Silver Spring) 18:4(818-25)2010 Apr

19166872. Bauer KW, Larson NI, Nelson MC, Story M, Neumark-Sztainer D, Fast food intake among adolescents: secular and longitudinal trends from 1999 to 2004. Prev Med 48:3(284-7)2009 Mar

19105866. Bauer KW, Larson NI, Nelson MC, Story M, Neumark-Sztainer D, Socio-environmental, personal and behavioural predictors of fast-food intake among adolescents. Public Health Nutr 12:10(1767-74)2009 Oct

18302765. Bauer KW, Nelson MC, Boutelle KN, Neumark-Sztainer D, Parental influences on adolescents' physical activity and sedentary behavior: longitudinal findings from Project EAT-II. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 5:(12)2008 Feb 26

16539778. Bauer KW, Patel A, Prokop LA, Austin SB, Swimming upstream: faculty and staff members from urban middle schools in low-income communities describe their experience implementing nutrition and physical activity initiatives. Prev Chronic Dis 3:2(A37)2006 Apr

14768656. Bauer KW, Yang YW, Austin SB, "How can we stay healthy when you're throwing all of this in front of us?" Findings from focus groups and interviews in middle schools on environmental influences on nutrition and physical activity. Health Educ Behav 31:1(34-46)2004 Feb

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