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Sandra Wittleder, PhD

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Keywords
health behavior change, precision behavior change, obesity , health equity, experimental psychology, automatic processes

Academic office

423 East 23rd Street

New York, NY 10010

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Positions

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Graduate Education

PhD from Hamburg University

Postdoctoral Training

NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Motivate Research Lab

Over 40% of American adults have obesity with a higher prevalence for racial/ethnic minorities such as Hispanic (47%) and non-Hispanic Black/African American populations (46.8%) increasing their cardiovascular disease risk. Most behavioral interventions

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Protocol for a prospective, randomized, controlled trial of Mental Contrasting with Implementation Intentions (MCII) to enhance the effectiveness of VA's MOVE! weight management program: WOOP (Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan) VA

Vandyousefi, Sarvenaz; Oettingen, Gabriele; Wittleder, Sandra; Moin, Tannaz; Sweat, Victoria; Aguilar, Adrian D; Ruan, Andrea; Angelotti, Gina; Wong, Laura; Orstad, Stephanie L; Illengberger, Nicholas; Nicholson, Andrew; Lim, Sahnah; Cansler, Rachel; Portelli, Dilara; Sherman, Scott; Jay, Melanie R

Contemporary clinical trials. 2024 Jun; 141:107523

Low-Income Participants"™ Preference Between Financial Incentives for Behavioral Goals vs Weight Loss Targets and Associations With Behavioral Goal Adherence

Adhiyaman, Akshitha; Jay, Melanie; Chung, Un Young Rebecca; Gronda, Andres N.; Tseng, Chi Hong; Wylie-Rosett, Judith; Wittleder, Sandra; Wali, Soma; Ladapo, Joseph A.; Orstad, Stephanie L.

American journal of health promotion. 2024 Jan 01; ?-?

Effectiveness of Goal-Directed and Outcome-Based Financial Incentives for Weight Loss in Primary Care Patients With Obesity Living in Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Neighborhoods: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Ladapo, Joseph A; Orstad, Stephanie L; Wali, Soma; Wylie-Rosett, Judith; Tseng, Chi-Hong; Chung, Un Young Rebecca; Cuevas, Miguel A; Hernandez, Christina; Parraga, Susan; Ponce, Robert; Sweat, Victoria; Wittleder, Sandra; Wallach, Andrew B; Shu, Suzanne B; Goldstein, Noah J; Jay, Melanie

JAMA internal medicine. 2023 Jan 01; 183(1):61-69

Testing Go/No-Go training effects on implicit evaluations of unhealthy and healthy snack foods

Wittleder, Sandra; Reinelt, Tilman; Milanowski, Luiça; Viglione, Clare; Jay, Melanie; Oettingen, Gabriele

Psychology & health. 2022 Aug 10; 1-21

Increasing Motivation for Lifestyle Change Is Not Enough to Treat Obesity

Wittleder, Sandra; Jay, Melanie

Annals of internal medicine. 2022 Jun; 175(6):901-902

Racial and weight discrimination associations with pain intensity and pain interference in an ethnically diverse sample of adults with obesity: a baseline analysis of the clustered randomized-controlled clinical trial the goals for eating and moving (GEM) study

Merriwether, Ericka N; Wittleder, Sandra; Cho, Gawon; Bogan, Eushavia; Thomas, Rachel; Bostwick, Naja; Wang, Binhuan; Ravenell, Joseph; Jay, Melanie

BMC public health. 2021 12 02; 21(1):2201

The Most Undertreated Chronic Disease: Addressing Obesity in Primary Care Settings

Tucker, Shanna; Bramante, Carolyn; Conroy, Molly; Fitch, Angela; Gilden, Adam; Wittleder, Sandra; Jay, Melanie

Current obesity reports. 2021 Sep; 10(3):396-408

Peer-Assisted Lifestyle (PAL) intervention: a protocol of a cluster-randomised controlled trial of a health-coaching intervention delivered by veteran peers to improve obesity treatment in primary care

Wittleder, Sandra; Smith, Shea; Wang, Binhuan; Beasley, Jeannette M; Orstad, Stephanie L; Sweat, Victoria; Squires, Allison; Wong, Laura; Fang, Yixin; Doebrich, Paula; Gutnick, Damara; Tenner, Craig; Sherman, Scott E; Jay, Melanie

BMJ open. 2021 Feb 26; 11(2):e043013

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