Dr. Bonnie Spring is a board-certified clinical health psychologist. She studies technology-assisted interventions to treat multiple behavioral risk factors – obesity, physical inactivity, suboptimal diet, and smoking – in research that has been federally funded for nearly 40 years. A past president of the Society for Behavioral Medicine (SBM), she was founding editor of its journal, Translational Behavioral Medicine, and winner of Distinguished Researcher Awards from SBM, the American Psychological Association and the Obesity Society. She has served as primary mentor for 42 NIH research trainees; 56 of her former mentees hold academic appointments. She recently left Northwestern University to become the Krafft Professor of Behavioral and Social Medicine at Florida State University. There, she is continuing a Cancer Moonshot P50 on multiple risk behavior treatment for cancer survivors and a trial that evaluates an optimized adaptive behavioral treatment for obesity.

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