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Shelley Kirk, MS, RD, LD, is director of HealthWorks! and a staff member of the Comprehensive Weight Management Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

Shelley Kirk, PhD, RD, LD

Center Director, HealthWorks!

Lead Clinical Dietician, Comprehensive Weight Management Center

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone: 513-636-4305

Email: shelley.kirk@cchmc.org

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Specialties

Developing effective interventions for overweight and obese children and adolescents

Biography

Shelley Kirk, PhD, MS, RD, LD, is director of HealthWorks! and a staff member of the Comprehensive Weight Management Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

Education and Training

BS: Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1976.

MS: University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 1978; University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 1988.

PhD: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2003.

Publications

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Inge T, Wilson KA, Gamm K, Kirk S, Garcia VF, Daniels SR. Preferential loss of central (trunk) adiposity in adolescents and young adults after laparoscopic gastric bypass. Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2007 Mar-Apr;3(2):153-8.

Lawson ML, Kirk S, Mitchell T, Chen MK, Loux TJ, Daniels SR, Harmon CM, Clements RH, Garcia VF, Inge TH; Pediatric Bariatric Study Group. One-year outcomes of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for morbidly obese adolescents: a multicenter study from the Pediatric Bariatric Study Group. J Pediatr Surg. 2006 Jan;41(1):137-43; discussion 137-43.

Kirk S, Zeller M, Claytor R, Santangelo M, Khoury PR, Daniels SR. The relationship of health outcomes to improvement in BMI in children and adolescents. Obes Res. 2005 May;13(5):876-82.

Kirk S, Scott BJ, Daniels SR. Pediatric obesity epidemic: treatment options. J Am Diet Assoc. 2005 May;105(5 Suppl 1):S44-51. Review.

Zeller MH, Saelens BE, Roehrig H, Kirk S, Daniels SR. Psychological adjustment of obese youth presenting for weight management treatment. Obes Res. 2004 Oct;12(10):1576-86.

Zeller M, Kirk S, Claytor R, Khoury P, Grieme J, Santangelo M, Daniels S. Predictors of attrition from a pediatric weight management program. J Pediatr. 2004 Apr;144(4):466-70.

Cote MP, Byczkowski T, Kotagal U, Kirk S, Zeller M, Daniels S. Service quality and attrition: an examination of a pediatric obesity program. Int J Qual Health Care. 2004 Apr;16(2):165-73.

Inge TH, Garcia V, Daniels S, Langford L, Kirk S, Roehrig H, Amin R, Zeller M, Higa K. A multidisciplinary approach to the adolescent bariatric surgical patient. J Pediatr Surg. 2004 Mar;39(3):442-7; discussion 446-7.

Hipsky J, Kirk S. HealthWorks! Weight management program for children and adolescents. J Am Diet Assoc. 2002 Mar;102(3 Suppl):S64-7.