Amy Ahern
@amy_ahern
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Principal Research Associate & Programme Leader, @MRC_Epid University of Cambridge. Psychologist working in obesity and diabetes. All twitterings my own.
Cambridge, England
Joined May 2012
RT @EASOobesity: Introducing the Obesity Psychology, Behaviour + Mental Health Working Group. Co-Chairs of the COWG are @amy_ahern and @Ja….
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RT @MRC_Epid: 🧵.The Glucose Lowering through Weight Management (GLoW) trial has been published in @DiabetologiaJnl! . The study was led by….
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A busy few days in Malaga organising the fantastic programme for #ECO2025. Still time to submit a late breaking abstract by 28th February. Hope to see you there in May! ☀️🇪🇸.
Good morning Malaga! 🇪🇸 .Final day here planning the congress and organising the programme for #ECO2025. Remember to submit your late breaking abstracts! Deadline is 28th February 2025.
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RT @DiabetologiaJnl: A trial led by @amy_ahern, authored by @Julia_Namanka, @penny_breeze et al, found behav. weight management + dietary c….
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Great to hear @CaraRuggiero discussing her “why” and the importance of finding your people in research. We’re very glad we found Cara/she found us and brought her passion and skills to our team. Excited about her developing new ideas in food insecurity and infant feeding.
This month's The Confidence Interval guest is Dr @CaraRuggiero. Cara is a Research Associate, whose focus is Prevention of Diabetes and Related Metabolic Disorders in High Risk Groups. Cara shares her journey from nutritionist to researcher. Listen -
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Another year of PhD applications, another year of reading references telling me how “pleasant” and “polite” female candidates are. : 🙄.
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RT @jackmbirch: It was great to catch up with many of my former (and recently joined!) @MRC_Epid colleagues last night. I feel like you alw….
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RT @CaraRuggiero: The UK does the holidays so well and it's already been a very full month of festivities 🌟 I'm so grateful for this amazin….
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The Prevention team were feeling festive last night, celebrating Simon’s beautiful refurbished home and @laura_kudlek’s thesis submission. 🤩
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Congratulations to @laura_kudlek for submitting her PhD thesis and having her second PhD paper published last week 🤩 🥳 It has been an absolute pleasure to mentor this rising star in the psychology of eating behaviour and obesity and I have learnt so much working with her 🤩.
🔔 Excited to share this publication 🔔 We found that behavioural weight management interventions improve several eating behaviour traits like restraint 📊 We found no evidence of an impact on emotional eating - highlighting directions for future work 🙌
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New paper from our new Programme Manager @MarieSpreckley on advancing health and fostering community involvement in medical research through the Genes & Health study. Excited to apply her learnings to our work on SWiM and improve participation and engagement of underserved groups.
Delighted to see this published in @CellCellPress review journal Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism (IF 11.4) 🙂.
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RT @PROGROUPStudy: Our postdoc researchers @LauraSHollands @DrShokraneh presenting PROGROUP findings at the @EASOobesity @EASOobesityECN Wi….
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RT @CaraRuggiero: Back from a jam packed three days in Mallorca for the @EASOobesityECN winter school! I'm so grateful for this opportunit….
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Congratulations to the @EASOobesity @EASOobesityECN Board who organised another incredible Winter School. These ECRs have developed a vibrant community of early career scientists and health professionals working in obesity and exceptional education and networking events.
The @EASOobesityECN Board closes the Winter School with enthusiasm and grace. Great session! #EASOed
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RT @CaraRuggiero: This was such an entertaining and informative lecture by @ChristiansenLiv at @EASOobesityECN winter school! #EASOed.
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Is an @EASOobesityECN winter school really complete without an engaging and informative lecture/rant about bad research statistics from @ChristiansenLiv ? Look out for his two statistics textbooks coming soon…. #killingstatisticalzombies
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