Principal Research Associate & Programme Leader, @MRC_Epid University of Cambridge. Psychologist working in obesity and diabetes. All twitterings my own.
Joined May 2012
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Amy Ahern retweeted
17 Feb 2025
Introducing the Obesity Psychology, Behaviour Mental Health Working Group.
Co-Chairs of the COWG are @amy_ahern and @JasonCGHalford
Learn more about the Working Group here ⬇️
vimeo.com/1028228334/49540c0…
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Amy Ahern retweeted
13 Feb 2025
Well done to EDIT Collaborator Dr @amy_ahern 🥳
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The Glucose Lowering through Weight Management (GLoW) trial has been published in @DiabetologiaJnl!
The study was led by researchers from @MRC_Epid at @Cambridge_Uni, @ScHARRpubhealth at @sheffielduni and @UniversityLeeds.
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Amy Ahern retweeted
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The Glucose Lowering through Weight Management (GLoW) trial has been published in @DiabetologiaJnl!
The study was led by researchers from @MRC_Epid at @Cambridge_Uni, @ScHARRpubhealth at @sheffielduni and @UniversityLeeds.
Read - buff.ly/3WTkwpu
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6 Feb 2025
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! ☀️🇪🇸
6 Feb 2025
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
eco2025.org/?p=home
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Amy Ahern retweeted
5 Feb 2025
A trial led by @amy_ahern, authored by @Julia_Namanka, @penny_breeze et al, found behav. weight management dietary counselling in type 2 #diabetes didn’t improve HbA1c but may help people lose weight and be cost-effective compared with standard care tinyurl.com/48kkyzrc 🔓
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25 Jan 2025
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 - buff.ly/3WzT5R9
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14 Jan 2025
Another year of PhD applications, another year of reading references telling me how “pleasant” and “polite” female candidates are..: 🙄
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Amy Ahern retweeted
7 Dec 2024
It was great to catch up with many of my former (and recently joined!) @MRC_Epid colleagues last night. I feel like you always remain part of the 'family' you did your PhD in
7 Dec 2024
The Prevention team were feeling festive last night, celebrating Simon’s beautiful refurbished home and @laura_kudlek’s thesis submission. 🤩
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Amy Ahern retweeted
7 Dec 2024
The UK does the holidays so well and it's already been a very full month of festivities 🌟 I'm so grateful for this amazing team and the time we got to spend together celebrating!
7 Dec 2024
The Prevention team were feeling festive last night, celebrating Simon’s beautiful refurbished home and @laura_kudlek’s thesis submission. 🤩
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Amy Ahern retweeted
7 Dec 2024
So lucky to work with this lovely bunch 🤩
7 Dec 2024
The Prevention team were feeling festive last night, celebrating Simon’s beautiful refurbished home and @laura_kudlek’s thesis submission. 🤩
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7 Dec 2024
The Prevention team were feeling festive last night, celebrating Simon’s beautiful refurbished home and @laura_kudlek’s thesis submission. 🤩
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2 Dec 2024
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 🤩
22 Nov 2024
🔔 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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28 Nov 2024
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
28 Nov 2024
Delighted to see this published in @CellCellPress review journal Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism (IF 11.4) 🙂
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Amy Ahern retweeted
18 Nov 2024
Our postdoc researchers @LauraSHollands @DrShokraneh presenting PROGROUP findings at the @EASOobesity @EASOobesityECN Winter School in Palma de Mallorca!
We heard they had a great time networking and learning from experts across Europe!
#EASOed #ECNWinterSchool24
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Amy Ahern retweeted
16 Nov 2024
Back from a jam packed three days in Mallorca for the @EASOobesityECN winter school! I'm so grateful for this opportunity to hear so many inspiring research talks from world leading experts and build new networks #EASOed
16 Nov 2024
Thank you to our wonderful faculty and KOLs, organisers and venue staff, ECN Board members and fabulous delegates for supporting another fantastic @EASOobesity @EASOobesityECN event!
Together we can improve understanding and care for #obesity #NCDs #EASOed #PalmadeMallorca 🌴
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16 Nov 2024
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.
16 Nov 2024
The @EASOobesityECN Board closes the Winter School with enthusiasm and grace. Great session! #EASOed
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Amy Ahern retweeted
16 Nov 2024
This was such an entertaining and informative lecture by @ChristiansenLiv at @EASOobesityECN winter school! #EASOed
16 Nov 2024
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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16 Nov 2024
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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