Alison Field, ScD
| Department | Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine |
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| Hospital Title | Associate in Medicine | |
| Academic Title | Associate Professor of Pediatrics | |
| Phone | 617-355-3735 | |
| Fax | 617-730-0815 | |
| Alison Field | ||
| Location |
300 Longwood Avenue 333 Longwood-6 Boston MA 02115 |
Research Overview
Dr. Field's research focuses on the modifiable causes, correlates, consequences, and course of overweight, weight gain, and disordered eating among children, adolescents, and adult women.
She is a co-founder and co-Director of the Growing Up Today Study, which was established in 1996 to assess the predictors of dietary intake, activity, and weight gain among children and adolescents during a four year period. Her research within the study is primarily related to the epidemiology of weight gain, weight concerns, weight control practices, and bulimic behaviors. She is the principal investigator on the NIH grant to continue following 16,800 participants in the Growing Up Today Study (GUTS) cohort from 2002 to 2009 to investigate determinants of binge eating, purging (i.e., use of vomiting or laxatives) and eating disorders of at least subsyndromal severity.
Dr. Field also studies the consequences and correlates of weight cycling among 116,000 women in the Nurses' Health Study II and the relationship between weight cycling and mortality among 121,000 women in the Nurses’ Health Study. In addition, she is examining predictors of weight maintenance and weight loss maintenance among women in the Nurses' Health Study II and adolescent and young adult males and females in the Growing Up Today Study.
About Alison Field
Alison Field received her ScD from Harvard School of Public Health. In addition to her appointment at Children's Hospital, she is an Associate Professor in Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and an Associate Epidemiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Publications
- Field AE, Javaras KN, Aneja P, Kitos N, Camargo CA, Taylor CB, Laird NM. Family, peer, and media predictors of becoming eating disordered. Arch Pediatr Adol Med 2008; 162:574-79.
- Field AE, Willett WC, Lissner L, Colditz GA. Dietary fat and weight gain among women in the Nurses’ Health Study. Obesity 2007; 15(4):967-76.
- Field AE, Austin SB, Striegel-Moore RH , Taylor CB, Camargo CA, Laird N, Colditz GA. Weight concerns and weight control behaviors of adolescents and their mothers. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2005; 159:1121-26.
- Field AE, Manson JE, Taylor CB, Willett WC, Colditz GA Association of weight change, weight control practices, and weight cycling among women in the Nurses’ Health Study II. Int J Obesity 2004; 28(9):1134-42.
- Field AE, Austin SB, Taylor CB, Malspeis S, Rosner B, Rockett HR, Gillman MW, Colditz GA. The relation between dieting and weight change among preadolescents and adolescents. Pediatrics 2003; 112: 900-906.
