I am public health researcher specializing in nutritional, pediatric, and psychiatric epidemiology. Most of my research focuses on determining the optimal classification for eating disorders and identifying the modifiable causes, correlates, consequences, and course of overweight and eating disorders among children, adolescents, and adult women.
Much of my current research uses data from the Growing Up Today Study (GUTS), a prospective cohort study of youth I helped to established in 1996 to assess the predictors of dietary intake, activity, and weight gain and is still ongoing in 2016, with a younger cohort, GUTS II, established in 2004. My early research on eating disorders focused on identifying the personal, peer, family, and media influences on starting to binge eating, purge, or develop an eating disorder.
During the past decade I have researched how eating disorders and obesity should be best classified. I used data from GUTS and the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), a birth cohort in the United Kingdom, to identify optimal classifications for eating disorders. Our findings were used by the working group who revised the DSM eating disorder diagnostic criteria in 2013. Future revisions will hopefully also address gender differences in presentation, course, and risk. The latter is highlighted in our paper that was published in JAMA Pediatrics, which is the first large study to shows the distribution of a range of eating disorders in males and how they relate to the development of adverse outcomes. I used the Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (LABS) study to identify obesity subtypes. We found that even among adults with severe obesity, there were four distinct subtypes. I am currently investigating subtypes of children and adolescents with obesity and whether the subtypes differ by race or biological sex.
| Field AE. "Is set-shifting a risk factor for anorexia nervosa or a broader range of disordered eating?." The International journal of eating disorders, vol. 55, no. 3, 2022, pp. 415-417. |
| Glazer KB, Danilack VA, Werner EF, Field AE, Savitz DA. "Elucidating the role of overweight and obesity in racial and ethnic disparities in cesarean delivery risk." Annals of Epidemiology, vol. 42, 2020, pp. 4-11.e4. |
| Glazer KB, Danilack VA, Field AE, Werner EF, Savitz DA. "Term Labor Induction and Cesarean Delivery Risk among Obese Women with and without Comorbidities." American journal of perinatology, vol. 39, no. 2, 2020, pp. 154-164. |
| Drucker AM, Pope EI, Field AE, Qureshi AA, Dumas O, Camargo CA Jr. "Association Between Maternal Pre-Pregnancy Body Mass Index, Gestational Weight Gain, and Offspring Atopic Dermatitis: A Prospective Cohort Study." The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, vol. 7, no. 1, 2019, pp. 96-102.e2. |
| Tovar, Alison, Kaar, Jill L., McCurdy, Karen, Field, Alison E., Dabelea, Dana, Vadiveloo, Maya. "Maternal vegetable intake during and after pregnancy." BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, vol. 19, no. 1, 2019, pp. 267. |
| Gjelsvik A, Rogers ML, Song L, Field AE, Vivier PM. "Residential Mobility and Flourishing Among United States School-Age Children, 2011/2012 National Survey of Children's Health." Maternal and Child Health Journal, vol. 23, no. 4, 2019, pp. 522-529. |
| Dhana K, Haines J, Liu G, Zhang C, Wang X, Field AE, Chavarro JE, Sun Q. "Association between maternal adherence to healthy lifestyle practices and risk of obesity in offspring: results from two prospective cohort studies of mother-child pairs in the United States." BMJ, vol. 362, 2018, pp. k2486. |
| Field AE, Inge TH, Belle SH, Johnson GS, Wahed AS, Pories WJ, Spaniolas K, Mitchell JE, Pomp A, Dakin GF, Wolfe B, Courcoulas AP. "Association of Obesity Subtypes in the Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery Study and 3-Year Postoperative Weight Change." Obesity, vol. 26, no. 12, 2018, pp. 1931-1937. |
| McGinty SM, Osganian SK, Feldman HA, Milliren CE, Field AE, Richmond TK. "BMI Trajectories from Birth to Young Adulthood." Obesity, vol. 26, no. 6, 2018, pp. 1043-1049. |
| Drucker AM, Field AE, Li WQ, Cho E, Li T, Corliss HL, Qureshi AA. "Childhood Atopic Dermatitis and Risk of Problematic Substance Use." Dermatitis : contact, atopic, occupational, drug, vol. 29, no. 3, 2018, pp. 168-170. |
| Walton K, Horton NJ, Rifas-Shiman SL, Field AE, Austin SB, Haycraft E, Breen A, Haines J. "Exploring the Role of Family Functioning in the Association Between Frequency of Family Dinners and Dietary Intake Among Adolescents and Young Adults." JAMA Network Open, vol. 1, no. 7, 2018, pp. e185217. |
| Lemeshow AR, Rimm EB, Hasin DS, Gearhardt AN, Flint AJ, Field AE, Genkinger JM. "Food and beverage consumption and food addiction among women in the Nurses' Health Studies." Appetite, vol. 121, 2018, pp. 186-197. |
| Dhana K, Zong G, Yuan C, Schernhammer E, Zhang C, Wang X, Hu FB, Chavarro JE, Field AE, Sun Q. "Lifestyle of women before pregnancy and the risk of offspring obesity during childhood through early adulthood." International Journal of Obesity, vol. 42, no. 7, 2018, pp. 1275-1284. |
| Strohmaier S, Devore EE, Vetter C, Missmer S, Heather Eliassen A, Rosner B, Rich-Edwards J, Field AE, Schernhammer ES. "Night Shift Work Before and During Pregnancy and Offspring Weight Outcomes Through Adolescence." Obesity, vol. 26, no. 9, 2018, pp. 1491-1500. |
| Micali N, Al Essimii H, Field AE, Treasure J. "Pregnancy loss of control over eating: a longitudinal study of maternal and child outcomes." The American journal of clinical nutrition, vol. 108, no. 1, 2018, pp. 101-107. |
| Kornides ML, Rimm EB, Chavarro JE, Gillman MW, Rosner B, Field AE. "Seasonal Variations in Meeting Physical Activity Recommendations and Development of Overweight during Adolescence." Childhood Obesity, vol. 14, no. 1, 2018, pp. 33-40. |
| Glazer KB, Sonneville KR, Micali N, Swanson SA, Crosby R, Horton NJ, Eddy KT, Field AE. "The Course of Eating Disorders Involving Bingeing and Purging Among Adolescent Girls: Prevalence, Stability, and Transitions." Journal of Adolescent Health, 2018. |
| Kornides ML, Gillman MW, Rosner B, Rimm EB, Chavarro JE, Field AE. "US adolescents at risk for not meeting physical activity recommendations by season." Pediatric Research, vol. 84, no. 1, 2018, pp. 50-56. |
| Micali N, Horton NJ, Crosby RD, Swanson SA, Sonneville KR, Solmi F, Calzo JP, Eddy KT, Field AE. "Eating disorder behaviours amongst adolescents: investigating classification, persistence and prospective associations with adverse outcomes using latent class models." European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, vol. 26, no. 2, 2017, pp. 231-240. |
| Li S, Zhu Y, Yeung E, Chavarro JE, Yuan C, Field AE, Missmer SA, Mills JL, Hu FB, Zhang C. "Offspring risk of obesity in childhood, adolescence and adulthood in relation to gestational diabetes mellitus: a sex-specific association." International journal of epidemiology, vol. 46, no. 6, 2017, pp. 2104. |
| Li S, Zhu Y, Yeung E, Chavarro JE, Yuan C, Field AE, Missmer SA, Mills JL, Hu FB, Zhang C. "Offspring risk of obesity in childhood, adolescence and adulthood in relation to gestational diabetes mellitus: a sex-specific association." International journal of epidemiology, vol. 46, no. 5, 2017, pp. 1533-1541. |
| Ding M, Yuan C, Gaskins AJ, Field AE, Missmer SA, Michels KB, Hu F, Zhang C, Gillman MW, Chavarro J. "Smoking during pregnancy in relation to grandchild birth weight and BMI trajectories." PLoS ONE, vol. 12, no. 7, 2017, pp. e0179368. |
| Cornelis MC, Flint A, Field AE, Kraft P, Han J, Rimm EB, van Dam RM. "A genome-wide investigation of food addiction." Obesity, vol. 24, no. 6, 2016, pp. 1336-41. |
| Gooding HC, Milliren C, Shay CM, Richmond TK, Field AE, Gillman MW. "Achieving Cardiovascular Health in Young Adulthood-Which Adolescent Factors Matter?." Journal of Adolescent Health, vol. 58, no. 1, 2016, pp. 119-21. |
| Martin-Calvo N, Chavarro JE, Falbe J, Hu FB, Field AE. "Adherence to the Mediterranean dietary pattern and BMI change among US adolescents." International Journal of Obesity, vol. 40, no. 7, 2016, pp. 1103-8. |
| Maleki N, Kurth T, Field AE. "Age at menarche and risk of developing migraine or non-migraine headaches by young adulthood: A prospective cohort study." Cephalalgia, 2016. |
| Yuan C, Gaskins AJ, Blaine AI, Zhang C, Gillman MW, Missmer SA, Field AE, Chavarro JE. "Association Between Cesarean Birth and Risk of Obesity in Offspring in Childhood, Adolescence, and Early Adulthood." JAMA Pediatrics, vol. 170, no. 11, 2016, pp. e162385. |
| Falbe J, Willett WC, Rosner B, Field AE. "Body mass index, new modes of TV viewing and active video games." Pediatric obesity, 2016. |
| Swanson SA, Field AE. "Commentary: Considerations for the use of registry data to study adolescent eating disorders." International journal of epidemiology, vol. 45, no. 2, 2016, pp. 488-90. |
| Haines J, Rifas-Shiman SL, Horton NJ, Kleinman K, Bauer KW, Davison KK, Walton K, Austin SB, Field AE, Gillman MW. "Family functioning and quality of parent-adolescent relationship: cross-sectional associations with adolescent weight-related behaviors and weight status." The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity, vol. 13, 2016, pp. 68. |
| Li WQ, E McGeary J, Cho E, Flint A, Wu S, Ascherio A, Rimm E, Field A, A Qureshi A. "Indoor tanning bed use and risk of food addiction based on the modified Yale Food Addiction Scale." Journal of biomedical research, vol. 31, no. 1, 2016, pp. 31-39. |
| Dougan MM, Field AE, Rich-Edwards JW, Hankinson SE, Glynn RJ, Willett WC, Michels KB. "Is grand-parental smoking associated with adolescent obesity? A three-generational study." International Journal of Obesity, vol. 40, no. 3, 2016, pp. 531-7. |
| Mitchell KS, Porter B, Boyko EJ, Field AE. "Longitudinal Associations Among Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Disordered Eating, and Weight Gain in Military Men and Women." American Journal of Epidemiology, vol. 184, no. 1, 2016, pp. 33-47. |
| Dumas O, Varraso R, Gillman MW, Field AE, Camargo CA Jr. "Longitudinal study of maternal body mass index, gestational weight gain, and offspring asthma." Allergy, vol. 71, no. 9, 2016, pp. 1295-304. |
| Calzo JP, Horton NJ, Sonneville KR, Swanson SA, Crosby RD, Micali N, Eddy KT, Field AE. "Male Eating Disorder Symptom Patterns and Health Correlates From 13 to 26 Years of Age." Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, vol. 55, no. 8, 2016, pp. 693-700.e2. |
| Maleki N, Bernstein C, Napadow V, Field A. "Migraine and Puberty: Potential Susceptible Brain Sites." Seminars in pediatric neurology, vol. 23, no. 1, 2016, pp. 53-9. |
| Walton K, Kleinman KP, Rifas-Shiman SL, Horton NJ, Gillman MW, Field AE, Bryn Austin S, Neumark-Sztainer D, Haines J. "Secular trends in family dinner frequency among adolescents." BMC research notes, vol. 9, no. 1, 2016, pp. 35. |
| Dodson NA, Corliss HL, Sarda V, Emans SJ, Field AE. "Sense of Mission and Sexual Health Outcomes Among Young Adult Women." Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, vol. 29, no. 6, 2016, pp. 567-570. |
| Ogino S, Nishihara R, VanderWeele TJ, Wang M, Nishi A, Lochhead P, Qian ZR, Zhang X, Wu K, Nan H, Yoshida K, Milner DA Jr, Chan AT, Field AE, Camargo CA Jr, Williams MA, Giovannucci EL. "The Role of Molecular Pathological Epidemiology in the Study of Neoplastic and Non-Neoplastic Diseases in the Era of Precision Medicine." Epidemiology, 2016. |
| Haynos AF, Field AE, Wilfley DE, Tanofsky-Kraff M. "A novel classification paradigm for understanding the positive and negative outcomes associated with dieting." The International journal of eating disorders, vol. 48, no. 4, 2015, pp. 362-6. |
| Micali N, De Stavola B, Ploubidis G, Simonoff E, Treasure J, Field AE. "Adolescent eating disorder behaviours and cognitions: gender-specific effects of child, maternal and family risk factors." The British Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 207, no. 4, 2015, pp. 320-7. |
| Micali N, Solmi F, Horton NJ, Crosby RD, Eddy KT, Calzo JP, Sonneville KR, Swanson SA, Field AE. "Adolescent Eating Disorders Predict Psychiatric, High-Risk Behaviors and Weight Outcomes in Young Adulthood." Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, vol. 54, no. 8, 2015, pp. 652-659.e1. |
| Oreskovic NM, Perrin JM, Robinson AI, Locascio JJ, Blossom J, Chen ML, Winickoff JP, Field AE, Green C, Goodman E. "Adolescents' use of the built environment for physical activity." BMC Public Health, vol. 15, 2015, pp. 251. |
| Micali N, Field AE, Treasure JL, Evans DM. "Are obesity risk genes associated with binge eating in adolescence?." Obesity, vol. 23, no. 8, 2015, pp. 1729-36. |
| Mason SM, Bryn Austin S, Bakalar JL, Boynton-Jarrett R, Field AE, Gooding HC, Holsen LM, Jackson B, Neumark-Sztainer D, Sanchez M, Sogg S, Tanofsky-Kraff M, Rich-Edwards JW. "Child Maltreatment's Heavy Toll: The Need for Trauma-Informed Obesity Prevention." American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2015. |
| Sonneville KR, Calzo JP, Horton NJ, Field AE, Crosby RD, Solmi F, Micali N. "Childhood hyperactivity/inattention and eating disturbances predict binge eating in adolescence." Psychological Medicine, vol. 45, no. 12, 2015, pp. 2511-20. |
| Nishihara R, VanderWeele TJ, Shibuya K, Mittleman MA, Wang M, Field AE, Giovannucci E, Lochhead P, Ogino S. "Molecular pathological epidemiology gives clues to paradoxical findings." European journal of epidemiology, vol. 30, no. 10, 2015, pp. 1129-35. |
| Calzo JP, Masyn KE, Corliss HL, Scherer EA, Field AE, Austin SB. "Patterns of body image concerns and disordered weight- and shape-related behaviors in heterosexual and sexual minority adolescent males." Developmental Psychology, vol. 51, no. 9, 2015, pp. 1216-25. |
| Solmi F, Sonneville KR, Easter A, Horton NJ, Crosby RD, Treasure J, Rodriguez A, Jarvelin MR, Field AE, Micali N. "Prevalence of purging at age 16 and associations with negative outcomes among girls in three community-based cohorts." Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, vol. 56, no. 1, 2015, pp. 87-96. |
| Sonneville KR, Grilo CM, Richmond TK, Thurston IB, Jernigan M, Gianini L, Field AE. "Prospective association between overvaluation of weight and binge eating among overweight adolescent girls." Journal of Adolescent Health, vol. 56, no. 1, 2015, pp. 25-9. |
| Swanson SA, Horton NJ, Crosby RD, Micali N, Sonneville KR, Eddy K, Field AE. "A latent class analysis to empirically describe eating disorders through developmental stages." The International journal of eating disorders, vol. 47, no. 7, 2014, pp. 762-72. |
| Aloisio KM, Swanson SA, Micali N, Field A, Horton NJ. "Analysis of partially observed clustered data using generalized estimating equations and multiple imputation." The Stata journal, vol. 14, no. 4, 2014, pp. 863-883. |
| Swanson SA, Aloisio KM, Horton NJ, Sonneville KR, Crosby RD, Eddy KT, Field AE, Micali N. "Assessing eating disorder symptoms in adolescence: is there a role for multiple informants?." The International journal of eating disorders, vol. 47, no. 5, 2014, pp. 475-82. |
| Field AE, Sonneville KR, Falbe J, Flint A, Haines J, Rosner B, Camargo CA Jr. "Association of sports drinks with weight gain among adolescents and young adults." Obesity, vol. 22, no. 10, 2014, pp. 2238-43. |
| Flint AJ, Gearhardt AN, Corbin WR, Brownell KD, Field AE, Rimm EB. "Food-addiction scale measurement in 2 cohorts of middle-aged and older women." The American journal of clinical nutrition, vol. 99, no. 3, 2014, pp. 578-86. |
| Gooding HC, McGinty S, Richmond TK, Gillman MW, Field AE. "Hypertension awareness and control among young adults in the national longitudinal study of adolescent health." J GEN INTERN MED, vol. 29, no. 8, 2014, pp. 1098-104. |
| Falbe J, Willett WC, Rosner B, Gortmaker SL, Sonneville KR, Field AE. "Longitudinal relations of television, electronic games, and digital versatile discs with changes in diet in adolescents." The American journal of clinical nutrition, vol. 100, no. 4, 2014, pp. 1173-81. |
| Field AE, Sonneville KR, Crosby RD, Swanson SA, Eddy KT, Camargo CA Jr, Horton NJ, Micali N. "Prospective associations of concerns about physique and the development of obesity, binge drinking, and drug use among adolescent boys and young adult men." JAMA Pediatrics, vol. 168, no. 1, 2014, pp. 34-9. |
| Field AE, Camargo CA. "Response to "are the results likely biased toward the null?"." Obesity, vol. 22, no. 11, 2014, pp. 2327. |
| Mason SM, Flint AJ, Field AE, Austin SB, Rich-Edwards JW. "Abuse victimization in childhood or adolescence and risk of food addiction in adult women." Obesity, vol. 21, no. 12, 2013, pp. E775-81. |
| Falbe J, Rosner B, Willett WC, Sonneville KR, Hu FB, Field AE. "Adiposity and different types of screen time." Pediatrics, vol. 132, no. 6, 2013, pp. e1497-505. |
| Iron-Segev S, Peterson KE, Gillman MW, Williams CM, Austin SB, Field AE. "Associations of breastfeeding with bulimic behaviors and eating disorders among adolescents." The International journal of eating disorders, vol. 46, no. 8, 2013, pp. 834-40. |
| Calzo JP, Corliss HL, Blood EA, Field AE, Austin SB. "Development of muscularity and weight concerns in heterosexual and sexual minority males." Health Psychology, vol. 32, no. 1, 2013, pp. 42-51. |
| Sonneville KR, Horton NJ, Micali N, Crosby RD, Swanson SA, Solmi F, Field AE. "Longitudinal associations between binge eating and overeating and adverse outcomes among adolescents and young adults: does loss of control matter?." JAMA Pediatrics, vol. 167, no. 2, 2013, pp. 149-55. |
| Sanchez-Villegas A, Field AE, O'Reilly EJ, Fava M, Gortmaker S, Kawachi I, Ascherio A. "Perceived and actual obesity in childhood and adolescence and risk of adult depression." Journal of epidemiology and community health, vol. 67, no. 1, 2013, pp. 81-6. |
| Field AE, Camargo CA Jr, Ogino S. "The merits of subtyping obesity: one size does not fit all." JAMA, vol. 310, no. 20, 2013, pp. 2147-8. |
| Skinner HH, Haines J, Austin SB, Field AE. "A prospective study of overeating, binge eating, and depressive symptoms among adolescent and young adult women." Journal of Adolescent Health, vol. 50, no. 5, 2012, pp. 478-83. |
| Sonneville KR, Calzo JP, Horton NJ, Haines J, Austin SB, Field AE. "Body satisfaction, weight gain and binge eating among overweight adolescent girls." International Journal of Obesity, vol. 36, no. 7, 2012, pp. 944-9. |
| Oreskovic NM, Blossom J, Field AE, Chiang SR, Winickoff JP, Kleinman RE. "Combining global positioning system and accelerometer data to determine the locations of physical activity in children." Geospatial health, vol. 6, no. 2, 2012, pp. 263-72. |
| Field AE, Sonneville KR, Micali N, Crosby RD, Swanson SA, Laird NM, Treasure J, Solmi F, Horton NJ. "Prospective association of common eating disorders and adverse outcomes." Pediatrics, vol. 130, no. 2, 2012, pp. e289-95. |
| Calzo JP, Sonneville KR, Haines J, Blood EA, Field AE, Austin SB. "The development of associations among body mass index, body dissatisfaction, and weight and shape concern in adolescent boys and girls." Journal of Adolescent Health, vol. 51, no. 5, 2012, pp. 517-23. |
| Sonneville KR, Gordon CM, Kocher MS, Pierce LM, Ramappa A, Field AE. "Vitamin d, calcium, and dairy intakes and stress fractures among female adolescents." Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, vol. 166, no. 7, 2012, pp. 595-600. |
| Field AE, Gordon CM, Pierce LM, Ramappa A, Kocher MS. "Prospective study of physical activity and risk of developing a stress fracture among preadolescent and adolescent girls." Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, vol. 165, no. 8, 2011, pp. 723-8. |
| Javaras KN, Austin SB, Field AE. "Season of birth and disordered eating in a population-based sample of young U.S. females." The International journal of eating disorders, vol. 44, no. 7, 2011, pp. 630-8. |
| Haines J, Kleinman KP, Rifas-Shiman SL, Field AE, Austin SB. "Examination of shared risk and protective factors for overweight and disordered eating among adolescents." Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, vol. 164, no. 4, 2010, pp. 336-43. |
| Haines J, Gillman MW, Rifas-Shiman S, Field AE, Austin SB. "Family dinner and disordered eating behaviors in a large cohort of adolescents." Eating Disorders, vol. 18, no. 1, 2010, pp. 10-24. |
| Perrin EM, Boone-Heinonen J, Field AE, Coyne-Beasley T, Gordon-Larsen P. "Perception of overweight and self-esteem during adolescence." The International journal of eating disorders, vol. 43, no. 5, 2010, pp. 447-54. |
| Mekary RA, Feskanich D, Hu FB, Willett WC, Field AE. "Physical activity in relation to long-term weight maintenance after intentional weight loss in premenopausal women." Obesity, vol. 18, no. 1, 2010, pp. 167-74. |
| Berlan ED, Corliss HL, Field AE, Goodman E, Austin SB. "Sexual orientation and bullying among adolescents in the growing up today study." Journal of Adolescent Health, vol. 46, no. 4, 2010, pp. 366-71. |
| Richmond TK, Walls CE, Gooding HC, Field AE. "Television viewing is not predictive of BMI in Black and Hispanic young adult females." Obesity, vol. 18, no. 5, 2010, pp. 1015-20. |
| Field AE, Haines J, Rosner B, Willett WC. "Weight-control behaviors and subsequent weight change among adolescents and young adult females." The American journal of clinical nutrition, vol. 91, no. 1, 2010, pp. 147-53. |
| Mekary RA, Feskanich D, Malspeis S, Hu FB, Willett WC, Field AE. "Physical activity patterns and prevention of weight gain in premenopausal women." International Journal of Obesity, vol. 33, no. 9, 2009, pp. 1039-47. |
| Austin SB, Ziyadeh NJ, Corliss HL, Rosario M, Wypij D, Haines J, Camargo CA Jr, Field AE. "Sexual orientation disparities in purging and binge eating from early to late adolescence." Journal of Adolescent Health, vol. 45, no. 3, 2009, pp. 238-45. |
| Austin SB, Ziyadeh NJ, Corliss HL, Haines J, Rockett HR, Wypij D, Field AE. "Sexual orientation disparities in weight status in adolescence: findings from a prospective study." Obesity, vol. 17, no. 9, 2009, pp. 1776-82. |
| Field AE, Malspeis S, Willett WC. "Weight cycling and mortality among middle-aged or older women." Arch Intern Med, vol. 169, no. 9, 2009, pp. 881-6. |
| Field AE, Javaras KM, Aneja P, Kitos N, Camargo CA Jr, Taylor CB, Laird NM. "Family, peer, and media predictors of becoming eating disordered." Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, vol. 162, no. 6, 2008, pp. 574-9. |
| Oken E, Rifas-Shiman SL, Field AE, Frazier AL, Gillman MW. "Maternal gestational weight gain and offspring weight in adolescence." Obstetrics and gynecology, vol. 112, no. 5, 2008, pp. 999-1006. |
| Kahn JA, Huang B, Gillman MW, Field AE, Austin SB, Colditz GA, Frazier AL. "Patterns and determinants of physical activity in U.S. adolescents." Journal of Adolescent Health, vol. 42, no. 4, 2008, pp. 369-77. |
| Kumanyika SK, Obarzanek E, Stettler N, Bell R, Field AE, Fortmann SP, Franklin BA, Gillman MW, Lewis CE, Poston WC 2nd, Stevens J, Hong Y, American Heart Association Council on Epidemiology and Prevention, Interdisciplinary Committee for Prevention. "Population-based prevention of obesity: the need for comprehensive promotion of healthful eating, physical activity, and energy balance: a scientific statement from American Heart Association Council on Epidemiology and Prevention, Interdisciplinary Committee for Prevention (formerly the expert panel on population and prevention science)." Circulation, vol. 118, no. 4, 2008, pp. 428-64. |
| Gray SH, Austin SB, Huang B, Frazier AL, Field AE, Kahn JA. "Predicting sexual initiation in a prospective cohort study of adolescents." Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, vol. 162, no. 1, 2008, pp. 55-9. |
| Kanayama G, Boynes M, Hudson JI, Field AE, Pope HG Jr. "Anabolic steroid abuse among teenage girls: an illusory problem?." Drug and Alcohol Dependence, vol. 88, no. 2-3, 2007, pp. 156-62. |
| Richmond TK, Field AE, Rich M. "Can neighborhoods explain racial/ethnic differences in adolescent inactivity?." Int. J. of Pediatric Obesity, vol. 2, no. 4, 2007, pp. 202-10. |
| Field AE, Willett WC, Lissner L, Colditz GA. "Dietary fat and weight gain among women in the Nurses' Health Study." Obesity, vol. 15, no. 4, 2007, pp. 967-76. |
| Taveras EM, Field AE, Berkey CS, Rifas-Shiman SL, Frazier AL, Colditz GA, Gillman MW. "Longitudinal relationship between television viewing and leisure-time physical activity during adolescence." Pediatrics, vol. 119, no. 2, 2007, pp. e314-9. |
| Field AE, Aneja P, Austin SB, Shrier LA, de Moor C, Gordon-Larsen P. "Race and gender differences in the association of dieting and gains in BMI among young adults." Obesity, vol. 15, no. 2, 2007, pp. 456-64. |
| Ziyadeh NJ, Prokop LA, Fisher LB, Rosario M, Field AE, Camargo CA Jr, Austin SB. "Sexual orientation, gender, and alcohol use in a cohort study of U.S. adolescent girls and boys." Drug and Alcohol Dependence, vol. 87, no. 2-3, 2007, pp. 119-30. |
| Field AE, Aneja P, Rosner B. "The validity of self-reported weight change among adolescents and young adults." Obesity, vol. 15, no. 9, 2007, pp. 2357-64. |
| Gillman MW, Rifas-Shiman SL, Berkey CS, Frazier AL, Rockett HR, Camargo CA Jr, Field AE, Colditz GA. "Breast-feeding and overweight in adolescence: within-family analysis [corrected]." Epidemiology, vol. 17, no. 1, 2006, pp. 112-4. |
| Richmond TK, Hayward RA, Gahagan S, Field AE, Heisler M. "Can school income and racial/ethnic composition explain the racial/ethnic disparity in adolescent physical activity participation?." Pediatrics, vol. 117, no. 6, 2006, pp. 2158-66. |
| O'Riordan DL, Field AE, Geller AC, Brooks DR, Aweh G, Colditz GA, Frazier AL. "Frequent tanning bed use, weight concerns, and other health risk behaviors in adolescent females (United States)." Cancer Causes & Control, vol. 17, no. 5, 2006, pp. 679-86. |
| Taylor CB, Bryson S, Celio Doyle AA, Luce KH, Cunning D, Abascal LB, Rockwell R, Field AE, Striegel-Moore R, Winzelberg AJ, Wilfley DE. "The adverse effect of negative comments about weight and shape from family and siblings on women at high risk for eating disorders." Pediatrics, vol. 118, no. 2, 2006, pp. 731-8. |
| Taveras EM, Berkey CS, Rifas-Shiman SL, Ludwig DS, Rockett HR, Field AE, Colditz GA, Gillman MW. "Association of consumption of fried food away from home with body mass index and diet quality in older children and adolescents." Pediatrics, vol. 116, no. 4, 2005, pp. e518-24. |
| Loud KJ, Gordon CM, Micheli LJ, Field AE. "Correlates of stress fractures among preadolescent and adolescent girls." Pediatrics, vol. 115, no. 4, 2005, pp. e399-406. |
| Field AE, Austin SB, Camargo CA Jr, Taylor CB, Striegel-Moore RH, Loud KJ, Colditz GA. "Exposure to the mass media, body shape concerns, and use of supplements to improve weight and shape among male and female adolescents." Pediatrics, vol. 116, no. 2, 2005, pp. e214-20. |
| Taveras EM, Rifas-Shiman SL, Berkey CS, Rockett HR, Field AE, Frazier AL, Colditz GA, Gillman MW. "Family dinner and adolescent overweight." Obesity research, vol. 13, no. 5, 2005, pp. 900-6. |
| Austin SB, Field AE, Wiecha J, Peterson KE, Gortmaker SL. "The impact of a school-based obesity prevention trial on disordered weight-control behaviors in early adolescent girls." Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, vol. 159, no. 3, 2005, pp. 225-30. |
| Field AE, Austin SB, Striegel-Moore R, Taylor CB, Camargo CA Jr, Laird N, Colditz G. "Weight concerns and weight control behaviors of adolescents and their mothers." Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, vol. 159, no. 12, 2005, pp. 1121-6. |
| Field AE, Cook NR, Gillman MW. "Weight status in childhood as a predictor of becoming overweight or hypertensive in early adulthood." Obesity research, vol. 13, no. 1, 2005, pp. 163-9. |
| Wannamethee SG, Field AE, Colditz GA, Rimm EB. "Alcohol intake and 8-year weight gain in women: a prospective study." Obesity research, vol. 12, no. 9, 2004, pp. 1386-96. |
| Field AE, Manson JE, Taylor CB, Willett WC, Colditz GA. "Association of weight change, weight control practices, and weight cycling among women in the Nurses' Health Study II." International journal of obesity and related metabolic disorders : journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, vol. 28, no. 9, 2004, pp. 1134-42. |
| Field AE, Taylor CB, Celio A, Colditz GA. "Comparison of self-report to interview assessment of bulimic behaviors among preadolescent and adolescent girls and boys." The International journal of eating disorders, vol. 35, no. 1, 2004, pp. 86-92. |
| Field AE, Franko DL, Striegel-Moore RH, Schreiber GB, Crawford PB, Daniels SR. "Race differences in accuracy of self-reported childhood body size among white and black women." Obesity research, vol. 12, no. 7, 2004, pp. 1136-44. |
| Austin SB, Ziyadeh N, Kahn JA, Camargo CA Jr, Colditz GA, Field AE. "Sexual orientation, weight concerns, and eating-disordered behaviors in adolescent girls and boys." Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, vol. 43, no. 9, 2004, pp. 1115-23. |
| Field AE, Austin SB, Gillman MW, Rosner B, Rockett HR, Colditz GA. "Snack food intake does not predict weight change among children and adolescents." International journal of obesity and related metabolic disorders : journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, vol. 28, no. 10, 2004, pp. 1210-6. |
| Berkey CS, Rockett HR, Field AE, Gillman MW, Colditz GA. "Sugar-added beverages and adolescent weight change." Obesity research, vol. 12, no. 5, 2004, pp. 778-88. |
| Taveras EM, Rifas-Shiman SL, Field AE, Frazier AL, Colditz GA, Gillman MW. "The influence of wanting to look like media figures on adolescent physical activity." Journal of Adolescent Health, vol. 35, no. 1, 2004, pp. 41-50. |
| Field AE, Manson JE, Laird N, Williamson DF, Willett WC, Colditz GA. "Weight cycling and the risk of developing type 2 diabetes among adult women in the United States." Obesity research, vol. 12, no. 2, 2004, pp. 267-74. |
| Field AE, Gillman MW, Rosner B, Rockett HR, Colditz GA. "Association between fruit and vegetable intake and change in body mass index among a large sample of children and adolescents in the United States." International journal of obesity and related metabolic disorders : journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, vol. 27, no. 7, 2003, pp. 821-6. |
| Berkey CS, Rockett HR, Gillman MW, Field AE, Colditz GA. "Longitudinal study of skipping breakfast and weight change in adolescents." International journal of obesity and related metabolic disorders : journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, vol. 27, no. 10, 2003, pp. 1258-66. |
| Gillman MW, Rifas-Shiman S, Berkey CS, Field AE, Colditz GA. "Maternal gestational diabetes, birth weight, and adolescent obesity." Pediatrics, vol. 111, no. 3, 2003, pp. e221-6. |
| Loud KJ, Field AE, Micheli LJ. "Primary care of the elite or elite-emulating adolescent male athlete." Adolescent medicine (Philadelphia, Pa.), vol. 14, no. 3, 2003, pp. 647-61, vii. |
| Sichieri R, Field AE, Rich-Edwards J, Willett WC. "Prospective assessment of exclusive breastfeeding in relation to weight change in women." International journal of obesity and related metabolic disorders : journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, vol. 27, no. 7, 2003, pp. 815-20. |
| Field AE, Austin SB, Taylor CB, Malspeis S, Rosner B, Rockett HR, Gillman MW, Colditz GA. "Relation between dieting and weight change among preadolescents and adolescents." Pediatrics, vol. 112, no. 4, 2003, pp. 900-6. |
| Field AE, Laird N, Steinberg E, Fallon E, Semega-Janneh M, Yanovski JA. "Which metric of relative weight best captures body fatness in children?." Obesity research, vol. 11, no. 11, 2003, pp. 1345-52. |
| Bonat S, Pathomvanich A, Keil MF, Field AE, Yanovski JA. "Self-assessment of pubertal stage in overweight children." Pediatrics, vol. 110, no. 4, 2002, pp. 743-7. |
| Field AE, Austin SB, Frazier AL, Gillman MW, Camargo CA Jr, Colditz GA. "Smoking, getting drunk, and engaging in bulimic behaviors: in which order are the behaviors adopted?." Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, vol. 41, no. 7, 2002, pp. 846-53. |
| Rifas-Shiman SL, Gillman MW, Field AE, Frazier AL, Berkey CS, Tomeo CA, Colditz GA. "Comparing physical activity questionnaires for youth: seasonal vs annual format." American Journal of Preventive Medicine, vol. 20, no. 4, 2001, pp. 282-5. |
| Rockett HR, Berkey CS, Field AE, Colditz GA. "Cross-sectional measurement of nutrient intake among adolescents in 1996." Preventive Medicine, vol. 33, no. 1, 2001, pp. 27-37. |
| Field AE, Colditz GA. "Frequent dieting and the development of obesity among children and adolescents." Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.), vol. 17, no. 4, 2001, pp. 355-6. |
| Field AE, Coakley EH, Must A, Spadano JL, Laird N, Dietz WH, Rimm E, Colditz GA. "Impact of overweight on the risk of developing common chronic diseases during a 10-year period." Arch Intern Med, vol. 161, no. 13, 2001, pp. 1581-6. |
| Field AE, Camargo CA Jr, Taylor CB, Berkey CS, Roberts SB, Colditz GA. "Peer, parent, and media influences on the development of weight concerns and frequent dieting among preadolescent and adolescent girls and boys." Pediatrics, vol. 107, no. 1, 2001, pp. 54-60. |
| Field AE, Wing RR, Manson JE, Spiegelman DL, Willett WC. "Relationship of a large weight loss to long-term weight change among young and middle-aged US women." International journal of obesity and related metabolic disorders : journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, vol. 25, no. 8, 2001, pp. 1113-21. |
| Gillman MW, Rifas-Shiman SL, Camargo CA Jr, Berkey CS, Frazier AL, Rockett HR, Field AE, Colditz GA. "Risk of overweight among adolescents who were breastfed as infants." JAMA, vol. 285, no. 19, 2001, pp. 2461-7. |
| Hébert JR, Peterson KE, Hurley TG, Stoddard AM, Cohen N, Field AE, Sorensen G. "The effect of social desirability trait on self-reported dietary measures among multi-ethnic female health center employees." Annals of Epidemiology, vol. 11, no. 6, 2001, pp. 417-27. |
| Berkey CS, Rockett HR, Field AE, Gillman MW, Frazier AL, Camargo CA Jr, Colditz GA. "Activity, dietary intake, and weight changes in a longitudinal study of preadolescent and adolescent boys and girls." Pediatrics, vol. 105, no. 4, 2000, pp. E56. |
| Gillman MW, Rifas-Shiman SL, Frazier AL, Rockett HR, Camargo CA Jr, Field AE, Berkey CS, Colditz GA. "Family dinner and diet quality among older children and adolescents." Archives of family medicine, vol. 9, no. 3, 2000, pp. 235-40. |
| Field AE, Cheung L, Wolf AM, Herzog DB, Gortmaker SL, Colditz GA. "Exposure to the mass media and weight concerns among girls." Pediatrics, vol. 103, no. 3, 1999, pp. E36. |
| Gortmaker SL, Cheung LW, Peterson KE, Chomitz G, Cradle JH, Dart H, Fox MK, Bullock RB, Sobol AM, Colditz G, Field AE, Laird N. "Impact of a school-based interdisciplinary intervention on diet and physical activity among urban primary school children: eat well and keep moving." Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, vol. 153, no. 9, 1999, pp. 975-83. |
| Field AE, Colditz GA. "Overweight, central adiposity, and cardiovascular disease risk patterns in children." The Journal of Pediatrics, vol. 135, no. 4, 1999, pp. 409-10. |
| Field AE, Camargo CA Jr, Taylor CB, Berkey CS, Frazier AL, Gillman MW, Colditz GA. "Overweight, weight concerns, and bulimic behaviors among girls and boys." Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, vol. 38, no. 6, 1999, pp. 754-60. |
| Field AE, Camargo CA Jr, Taylor CB, Berkey CS, Colditz GA. "Relation of peer and media influences to the development of purging behaviors among preadolescent and adolescent girls." Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, vol. 153, no. 11, 1999, pp. 1184-9. |
| Field AE, Peterson KE, Gortmaker SL, Cheung L, Rockett H, Fox MK, Colditz GA. "Reproducibility and validity of a food frequency questionnaire among fourth to seventh grade inner-city school children: implications of age and day-to-day variation in dietary intake." Public Health Nutrition, vol. 2, no. 3, 1999, pp. 293-300. |
| Must A, Spadano J, Coakley EH, Field AE, Colditz G, Dietz WH. "The disease burden associated with overweight and obesity." JAMA, vol. 282, no. 16, 1999, pp. 1523-9. |
| Wei EK, Gardner J, Field AE, Rosner BA, Colditz GA, Suitor CW. "Validity of a food frequency questionnaire in assessing nutrient intakes of low-income pregnant women." Maternal and Child Health Journal, vol. 3, no. 4, 1999, pp. 241-6. |
| Tomeo CA, Field AE, Berkey CS, Colditz GA, Frazier AL. "Weight concerns, weight control behaviors, and smoking initiation." Pediatrics, vol. 104, no. 4 Pt 1, 1999, pp. 918-24. |
| Field AE, Byers T, Hunter DJ, Laird NM, Manson JE, Williamson DF, Willett WC, Colditz GA. "Weight cycling, weight gain, and risk of hypertension in women." American Journal of Epidemiology, vol. 150, no. 6, 1999, pp. 573-9. |
| Field AE, Colditz GA, Fox MK, Byers T, Serdula M, Bosch RJ, Peterson KE. "Comparison of 4 questionnaires for assessment of fruit and vegetable intake." American Journal of Public Health, vol. 88, no. 8, 1998, pp. 1216-8. |
| Heatherton TF, Mahamedi F, Striepe M, Field AE, Keel P. "A 10-year longitudinal study of body weight, dieting, and eating disorder symptoms." Journal of Abnormal Psychology, vol. 106, no. 1, 1997, pp. 117-25. |
| Field AE, Herzog DB, Keller MB, West J, Nussbaum K, Colditz GA. "Distinguishing recovery from remission in a cohort of bulimic women: how should asymptomatic periods be described?." American Journal of Kidney Diseases, vol. 50, no. 12, 1997, pp. 1339-45. |
| Field AE, Colditz GA, Peterson KE. "Racial differences in bulimic behaviors among high school females." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 817, 1997, pp. 359-60. |
| Field AE, Colditz GA, Peterson KE. "Racial/ethnic and gender differences in concern with weight and in bulimic behaviors among adolescents." Obesity research, vol. 5, no. 5, 1997, pp. 447-54. |
| Rockett HR, Breitenbach M, Frazier AL, Witschi J, Wolf AM, Field AE, Colditz GA. "Validation of a youth/adolescent food frequency questionnaire." Preventive Medicine, vol. 26, no. 6, 1997, pp. 808-16. |
| Field AE, Colditz GA, Herzog DB, Heatherton TF. "Disordered eating: can women accurately recall their binging and purging behaviors 10 years later?." Obesity research, vol. 4, no. 2, 1996, pp. 153-9. |
| Herzog DB, Field AE, Keller MB, West JC, Robbins WM, Staley J, Colditz GA. "Subtyping eating disorders: is it justified?." Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, vol. 35, no. 7, 1996, pp. 928-36. |
| Field AE, Colditz GA, Willett WC, Longcope C, McKinlay JB. "The relation of smoking, age, relative weight, and dietary intake to serum adrenal steroids, sex hormones, and sex hormone-binding globulin in middle-aged men." The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, vol. 79, no. 5, 1994, pp. 1310-6. |
| Field AE, Wolf AM, Herzog DB, Cheung L, Colditz GA. "The relationship of caloric intake to frequency of dieting among preadolescent and adolescent girls." Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, vol. 32, no. 6, 1993, pp. 1246-52. |
I am public health researcher specializing in nutritional, pediatric, and psychiatric epidemiology. Most of my research focuses on determining the optimal classification for eating disorders and identifying the modifiable causes, correlates, consequences, and course of overweight and eating disorders among children, adolescents, and adult women.
Much of my current research uses data from the Growing Up Today Study (GUTS), a prospective cohort study of youth I helped to established in 1996 to assess the predictors of dietary intake, activity, and weight gain and is still ongoing in 2016, with a younger cohort, GUTS II, established in 2004. My early research on eating disorders focused on identifying the personal, peer, family, and media influences on starting to binge eating, purge, or develop an eating disorder.
During the past decade I have researched how eating disorders and obesity should be best classified. I used data from GUTS and the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), a birth cohort in the United Kingdom, to identify optimal classifications for eating disorders. Our findings were used by the working group who revised the DSM eating disorder diagnostic criteria in 2013. Future revisions will hopefully also address gender differences in presentation, course, and risk. The latter is highlighted in our paper that was published in JAMA Pediatrics, which is the first large study to shows the distribution of a range of eating disorders in males and how they relate to the development of adverse outcomes.
In a Viewpoint that we published in JAMA, we argue that in an era of personalized or precision medicine it would be prudent for obesity to be broken into meaningful subtypes in order to improve prevention and treatment outcomes. I worked with researchers involved in the Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (LABS) to operationalize the approach I proposed in the JAMA viewpoint to examine obesity subtypes. We found that even among adults with severe obesity, there were four distinct subtypes. In my current R01, Phenotyping obesity using behavioral, psychological, physiological, familial, and genetic data (R01DK127585) we are using a similar approach to identify subtypes of people with obesity. We are using a wide range of information from 2379 girls in National Growth and Health Study, 1421 children studied in the Section on Growth and Obesity at the Eunice Shriver Kennedy National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and the 16,875 youth in the Growing Up Today Study to identify subgroups of children and adolescents with obesity. We will then examine whether the subtypes are predictive of weight change in adolescence and young adulthood, the development of hypertension before age 35, or have a differential pattern of association with obesity-related genes and whether the subgroups or their relationships vary by sex or race
Much of my current research focuses on phenotyping eating disorders and obesity and understanding the associations between these phenotypes a range of health outcomes, including weight gain, hypertension, and diabetes. In an earlier R01 we identified subtypes of eating disorders and how they differed by biological sex and their relationships with the risks of developing obesity, high depressive symptoms, or starting to use drugs or binge drink frequently. In my current R01, Phenotyping obesity using behavioral, psychological, physiological, familial, and genetic data (R01DK127585) we are using a similar approach to identify subtypes of people with obesity. We are using a wide range of information from 2379 girls in National Growth and Health Study, 1421 children studied in the Section on Growth and Obesity at the Eunice Shriver Kennedy National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and the 16,875 youth in the Growing Up Today Study to identify subgroups of children and adolescents with obesity. We will then examine whether the subtypes are predictive of weight change in adolescence and young adulthood, the development of hypertension before age 35, or have a differential pattern of association with obesity-related genes and whether the subgroups or their relationships vary by sex or race.
2009-2016
Empirical eating disorder classification and validation using prospective studies
NIH/R01- MH087786
Principal Investigator ($2,713,577)
Using prospective data from two ongoing cohort studies, the Growing Up Today Study (GUTS) in the United States and the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) in the United Kingdom, we will empirically evaluate eating disorder classification schemes. We will use comorbidity and outcome (weight gain and weight status, comorbid depression, anxiety, substance and alcohol use, and persistence or worsening of symptoms) during adolescence and young adulthood as the validators to determine the best classification scheme.
2010-2016
Food and Beverage Patterns that Predict Weight Gain Among Adolescents
NIH/R01- DK087001
Principal Investigator ($2,115,901)
The aims of the study are to assess the independent and joint associations of intake of sugar-sweetened beverages (soda, sports drinks, energy drinks, and sweetened coffee drinks) and prepared foods with waist circumference, hypertension, BMI gain and the development of obesity among adolescents and young adults in the Growing Up Today Study II.
2011-2016
Weight and weight-related behaviors in youth: Influence of the family context
NIH/R01 HL096905
Matthew Gillman, Principal Investigator
Co-Investigator
The objective of this study is to examine the associations between the familial environment and adolescent weight and related behaviors among adolescents in the Growing Up Today Study II. We will link adolescents' data to data from their siblings and their mothers, who are participants in the Nurses' Health Study II. We will examine the influence of the family context on adolescent weight and weight-related behaviors in order to identify key familial determinants of adolescent weight and related behaviors. The results of this study will guide the development of more effective family-based obesity prevention interventions.
| Research Associate | Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Medicine | 1995-1997 | Boston, MA, USA |
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Brown University School of Public Health
Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health
| Chair, Department of Epidemiology. Brown University School of Public Health, 2015-2019 |
| Director. Center for Population Health and Clinical Epidemiology, 2015-2017 |
| Professor . Department of Epidemiology, 2015- |
| PHP 1900 - Epidemiology of Disorders and Diseases of Childhood and Young Adulthood |
| PHP 1950 - Adolescent and Young Adult Health |
