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.
Developing effective interventions for overweight and obese children and adolescents
Obesity Prevention
Cardiology, Heart
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Families Chose In-Person Visits over Telehealth for Pediatric Weight Management during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Childhood Obesity. 2022; 18:572-575.
Treatment of Pediatric Overweight and Obesity: Position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Based on an Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. 2022; 122:848-861.
Characteristics of paediatric weight management in the United States: Associations with program retention and BMI outcomes in the paediatric obesity weight evaluation registry (POWER). Pediatric obesity. 2022; 17.
Elevated blood pressure in youth in pediatric weight management programs in the Pediatric Obesity Weight Evaluation Registry (POWER). Journal of Clinical Hypertension. 2022; 24:122-130.
Patient Retention in Pediatric Weight Management Programs in the United States: Analyses of Data from the Pediatrics Obesity Weight Evaluation Registry. Childhood Obesity. 2022; 18:31-40.
Predictors Of Sports Participation Of Youth With Obesity In A Large Midwestern Metropolitan Area. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. 2021; 53:189-189.
Omega-3 Use for the Treatment of Hypertriglyceridemia, Low High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Levels, and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Children with Obesity. Childhood Obesity. 2021; 17:357-364.
Trends in prescribing anti-obesity pharmacotherapy for paediatric weight management: Data from the POWER Work Group. Pediatric obesity. 2021; 16.
Sexual behaviors, risks, and sexual health outcomes for adolescent females following bariatric surgery. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. 2019; 15:969-978.
Health Outcomes of Youth in Clinical Pediatric Weight Management Programs in POWER. Journal of Pediatrics. 2019; 208:57-65.e4.
Shelley Kirk, PhD, RD, LD6/30/2019