Kerri Boutelle, PhD

Dr. Kerri Boutelle completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology, her internship at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, and her postdoctoral fellowship in Behavioral Epidemiology at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Boutelle is a Clinical Psychologist and has been working with youth and young adults who have weight or eating related issues for over 17 years.

Tracks: Health Behavior

Dr. Boutelle’s current research is focused on parenting children to reduce weight, parent and child skills for reducing binge eating, and neurobiological correlates of weight loss in children. She is currently conducting an NIH funded study to compare a parent-only group to a parent and child group treatment for childhood obesity.

• Maternal and Child Health
• Food and Nutrition