Susan Carnell, Ph.D.

Susan Carnell, Ph.D., is a Research Fellow at the New York Obesity Nutrition Research Center, St Luke's Hospital, and the Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University. She also holds an honorary appointment at University College London, England. Dr Carnell's research focuses on the social, psychological, and biological drivers of appetite. At the moment she is studying brain activation in lean and obese adults and teenagers. She has a special interest in the influence of parental feeding style on children's weight, and how genes and environment interact to cause child obesity.