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Academic Appointments

Hospital Appointments

Clinical Practice

Professional Societies

• American Psychological Association
• Eastern Psychological Association
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Columbia University Appetitive Seminar Group
• American Association of University Professors
• Society of Sigma Xi
• North American Association for the Study of Obesity (Fellow)
• New York Academy of Sciences
• New York Society of Clinical Psychologists
• Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (Membership Committee)
• American Society of Clinical Nutrition
• American Institute of Nutrition
• American College of Sports Medicine
• American Psychological Society
• Academy for Eating Disorders (Special Interest Group on Brain Imaging)
• Eating Disorders Research Society

Honors

Current Active Grant Support

Teaching Experience

• Undergraduate: Biological Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Eating Disorders, Abnormal Psychology, Psychological Testing, Mood Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Sleep Disorders, Drugs and Behavior, Behavior Therapy, Theories of Learning, Theories of Personality, Health Psychology, Interpersonal Psychotherapy, Introduction to Psychology, Statistics for Social Sciences
• Graduate: Biological Foundations of Learning and Development, Research Design and Analysis, Lectures in Medical Neurophysiology

Research Mentor

List of Selected Trainees

Marci E. Gluck, PhD NIH Postdoctoral Trainee, 1999-2002, and Research Associate, 2002-2006, NY Obesity Research Center, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University
Currently: Research Clinical Psychologist, NIDDK, Phoenix Epidemiology & Clinical Research Branch, Phoenix, Arizona

Jennifer A. Nasser, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, 2002-4, NY Obesity Research Center, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
Currently: Research Associate, NY Obesity Research Center, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, NY NY

Christina D. Economos, PhD Masters Thesis in Nutrition and Exercise Physiology at Columbia University, 1989-90
Currently: Assistant Professor, Public Health and Family Medicine, Friedman School of Nutrition Science, Tufts University Scholl of Medicine, Boston, Mass.

Dympna Gallagher, EdD Masters Thesis in Nutrition and Exercise Physiology at Columbia University, 1989-90
Currently: Assistant Professor, Nutritional Medicine, Columbia University Director, Body Composition Unit, NY Obesity Research Center St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, NY NY

Rachel Yehuda, PhD Undergraduate Senior Thesis in Psychology at Touro College, 1976-78.
Currently: Professor of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY NY

Christopher Ochner, PhD NIH Postdoctoral Trainee, NY Obesity Research Center, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University, 2006-

Susan Carnell, PhD Postdoctoral Trainee, NY Obesity Research Center, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University, 2007-

List of Selected Doctoral Dissertation Defenses

• Lynn Nezin, PhD, Albert Einstein, Clinical Health Psychology, 1997
• Marci Gluck, PhD, Albert Einstein, Clinical Health Psychology, 1999
• Carla Wolper, EdD, Teachers College, Columbia Univ., Nutrition, 2007
• Jan Morrow, PhD, Albert Einstein, Clinical Health Psychology, 2006
• Sarah Weinberger, PhD, Brooklyn College, Experimental Psychology, 2007

List of Selected Visiting Professors to the Geliebter Lab

• Pauline Jirik-Babb, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Iona University, 1997-1998 (sabbatical)
• Jason Halford, PhD, Lecturer in Psychology, University of Liverpool, Spring 2006 (sabbatical)
• Yael Latzer, DSc, Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Welfare and health studies, Haifa University, Israel. Director, Eating Disorders Clinic, Psychiatric Division, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel. 2006-07 (sabbatical)

Clinical Certificates Earned

Other Professsional Experience

Journal Reviewer

• Journal of the American Medical Association
• American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
• American Journal of Physiology
• American Journal of Psychiatry
• Appetite
• European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
• International Journal of Obesity
• Obesity Research
• Physiology and Behavior
• Reproduction, Nutrition, Development
• Biological Psychiatry
• Gastroenterology
• Medical Science Monitor
• Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Grants Reviewer

NIH Grant Applications

• NIH Review Group [National Heart , Lung, and Blood Institute -ZHL1 CSR-G (S1) (R)] of RO-1 applications in response to RFA-HL -04-006 "Overweight and Obesity, Control at Worksites," June, 2004
• NIH Study Section [Behavioral Medicine, Interventions and Outcomes (BMIO) ] R0-1 applications, March, 2006
• NIH Special Emphasis Panel/Scientific Review Group [ZMH1 ERB-G (C3) (S)] NIMH LRP applications, May, 2006

Industry and Academic Grants (multiple)

Recent Pilot and Feasibility Study Program, University of Pennsylvania Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism (IDOM), June, 2006

Editorial Board

• World Journal of Gastroenterology

Consultant

• Various pharmaceutical, medical device, and food companies

Recent Invited Scientific Talks (2003-)

• "Gastric Distention and Food Intake in Humans" in a Symposium on "Peripheral and Central Signaling" at a Human Food Intake Satellite Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB) in Maastricht, Netherlands, July 12-15, 2003. (published in Br J Nutr, 2004)
• "Peripheral Peptides and Binge Eating Disorder" in a Symposium on "Peripheral Peptides and Eating Disorders" presented in Groningen, Netherlands at the meeting of SSIB, July 15-19, 2003. (published in Physiology and Behavior, 2004)
• "Ghrelin and Binge Eating Disorder" in a symposium on "Ghrelin: Its Role in Energy Balance" at Experimental Biology, 2004, Ft Lauderdale, Florida (published in J Nutr, 2005)
• "Functional Brain imaging and Binge Eating Disorder" in a satellite meeting on "Eating Disorders and Obesity" in conjunction with SSIB, July 18-20, 2004 in Heuston Woods, Ohio (published in Appetite, 2006).
• "Peptide Hormones and Binge Eating Disorder" in a satellite meeting on "Eating Disorders and Obesity" in conjunction with SSIB, July 18-20, 2004 in Heuston Woods, Ohio.
• "Night Eating Syndrome: Common but Under Recognized" at the meeting of the Society of Bariatric Physicians, October 2, 2004, in Orlando, Florida.
• "Gastric Distension in Obesity and Binge Eating Disorder" at Brookhaven National Labs, Neuroimaging Unit, August 5, 2004, Brookhaven, N.Y
• "Feeding Laboratory Research and Binge Eating Disorder" at the Eating Disorder Research Society meeting, October 8, 2004, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• "Ghrelin in Obesity and Binge Eating Disorder" SSIB Meeting, July 12-15, 2005 Pittsburgh, PA.
• "Binge Eating Disorder and the Night Eating Syndrome: Obesity Related Eating Disorders" Psychiatry Grand Rounds, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, September 28, 2005
• "Psychobiology of Binge Eating Disorder" Diabetes Center Conference, Albert Einstein Medical School, Jan 27, 2006
• "Significance of Lower Fasting Ghrelin and Smaller Post Meal Fall in Binge Eating Disorder " Benjamin Franklin LaFayette Seminar, June 19-23, 2006. Frejus, France.
• "Psychological and Physiological Aspects of Binge Eating Disorder and the Night Eating Syndrome in Obese Individuals' Herbert H. Lehman College, November 27, 2006
• "Differentiation of Obesity and Binge Eating Disorder: BED through the Eyes of a Dietitian and a Psychologist" (with JA Nasser) The 16th Annual Renfrew Center Foundation Conference for Professionals Philadelphia, PA, November 9-12, 2006
• "Gastric Devices to Treat Obesity" Glaxo-Smith-Kline, Parsippany, NJ, March 29, 2007
• "Meet the Experts" Academy of Eating Disorders - International Conference on Eating Disorders, Baltimore, MD, May 2-5, 2007
• Appetite Hormones in Obesity-Related Eating Disorders: Binge Eating Disorder and the Night Eating Syndrome" Grand Rounds in Endocrinology, North Shore- LIJ Health System, May 11, 2007
• "Peripheral Mechanisms in Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder" in a symposium organized by Katherine Halmi and Walter Kaye at Society for the Study of Ingestive behavior (SSIB), Steamboats Springs, Colorado, July 24, 2007
• "Biological and Psychological Aspects of Binge Eating Disorder in Obesity" Grand Rounds in Psychiatry, Harlem Hospital, Columbia University, September 5, 2007
• "SPSS Seminars- Basic and Intermediate" (with C. Ochner) St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, May 28, 2007 and June 4, 2007
• "SPSS Seminars- Basic and Intermediate" (with C. Ochner) Eating Disorder Research Society (EDRS), Pittsburgh, PA, October 25, 2007
• "SPSS Seminars- Basic and Intermediate" (with C. Ochner) Institute for Human Nutrition, November 15, 2007 and December 6, 2007

Media

Appeared on local and national television shows discussing obesity, nutrition, and eating disorders. Quoted in local, national, and international newspapers and magazines.

Publications

A. Peer-reviewed Articles

• Geliebter A. Effects of equicaloric loads of protein, fat and carbohydrate on food intake in the rat and man. Physiology and Behavior 1979;22:267 73.
• Geliebter A, Torbay N, Bracco EF, Hashim SA, Van Itallie TB. Overfeeding with medium chain triglyceride results in diminished deposition of body fat. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1983;73:1 4.
• Geliebter A, Laing JT, Van Itallie TB. Effects of repeated isocaloric macronutrient loads on daily food intake of rats. American Journal of Physiology 1984; 247, R387 392.
• Torbay N, Bracco EF, Geliebter A, Stewart IM, Hashim SA. Insulin increases body fat despite control of food intake and physical activity. American Journal of Physiology 1985; 248: R120 124.
• Geliebter A, Westreich S, Pierson RN, Van Itallie TB. Extraabdominal pressure alters food intake, intragastric pressure, and gastric emptying rate. American Journal of Physiology 1986; 250: R549-552.
• Geliebter A, Westreich S, Gage D, Hashim SA. Intragastric balloon reduces food intake and body weight in the rat. American Journal of Physiology 1986; 251:794 797.
• Geliebter A, Westreich S, Hashim SA, Gage D. Gastric balloon reduces food intake and body weight in obese rats. Physiology and Behavior 1987;39:399 402.
• Geliebter A, Westreich S, Gage D. Gastric distention by balloon and test meal intake in obese and lean subjects. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1988;48:592-594.
• Geliebter A. Gastric distension and gastric capacity in relation to food intake. Physiology and Behavior 1988; 44:665 668.
• Geliebter A, Melton PM, Gage D, McCray RS, Hashim SA. Gastric balloon to treat obesity: A double blind study in non dieting subjects. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1990; 51:584 588.
• Geliebter A, Melton PM, McCray RS, Heymsfield SB, Abiri M, Gage D, Hashim SA. Clinical trial of silicone rubber gastric balloon to treat obesity. International Journal of Obesity 1991;15: 259 266.
• Geliebter A, Melton PM, McCray R, Gallagher DR, Gage D, Hashim SA. Gastric capacity, gastric emptying, and test meal intake in normal and bulimic women. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1992;56:656 661.
• Aronoff N, Geliebter A, Hashim SA, Zammit G. The relationship between daytime and nighttime intake in an obese nighteater. Obes Res 1994; 2:145 151
• Allison DB, Gomez JE, Heshka S, Babbitt RL, Geliebter A, Heymsfield SB. Decreased metabolic rate among persons with Down Syndrome. Int J Obes 1995;19:858 861.
• Geliebter A, Schachter S, Lohmann C, Feldman H, Hashim SA. Reduced stomach capacity in obese subjects after dieting. Am J Clin Nutr 1996;63:170 173.
• Geliebter A, Maher M, Gerace L, Gutin B, Heymsfield SB, Hashim SA. Effects of strength or aerobic training on body composition, resting metabolic rate, and peak oxygen consumption in obese dieting subjects. Am J Clin Nutr 1997;66:557-63.
• Geliebter A, Gluck M, Tanowitz, M, Aronoff N, Zammit GK. Work-shift period and weight change. Nutrition 2000;16:27-9.
• Geliebter A, Hassid G, Hashim SA. Test meal intake in obese binge eaters in relation to mood and gender. Int J Eat Disord 2001;29:488-94.
• Aronoff N, Geliebter A, Zammit GK. Gender and body mass as related to the night eating syndrome in obese outpatients. J Amer Diet Assoc 2001;101:102-4.
• Geliebter A, Hashim SA. Gastric capacity in normal, obese, and bulimic women. Physiol Behav 2001; 74:743-6.
• Gluck M, Geliebter A, Satov T. Night eating syndrome is associated with depression, low self-esteem, reduced daytime hunger and less weight loss in obese outpatients. Obesity Research 2001;9:264-267.
• Gluck ME, Geliebter A. Body image and eating behaviors in Orthodox and secular Jewish women. The Journal of Gender-Specific Medicine 2002; 5:19-24.
• Sorbara M, Geliebter A. Body image disturbance in obese outpatients before and after weight loss in relation to race, gender, binge eating, and age onset of obesity. Int J Eat Disord 2002; 31:416-423.
• McBurney DH, Simon J, Gaulin SJC, Geliebter A. Matrilateral biases in the investment of aunts and uncles: replication in a population presumed to have high paternity certainty. Human Nature 2002;3;391-402.
• Gluck ME, Geliebter A. Racial/Ethnic differences in body image and eating behaviors. Eating Behaviors 2002;2:1-9.
• Geliebter A. New developments in binge eating disorder and the night eating syndrome. Appetite 2002;38:1-3
• Geliebter A, Aversa A. Emotional eating in overweight, normal weight, and underweight individuals. Eating Behaviors 2003;3:341-347.
• Moize V, Geliebter A, Gluck M, Yahav E, Lorence M, Colarusso T, Drake V, Flancbaum L. Obese patients undergoing Roux-en-Y gastric bypass have inadequate protein intake related to protein intolerance for up to one year after surgery. Obesity Surgery 2003;13:23-28.
• Jirik-Babb P, Geliebter A. Comparison of psychological characteristics of binging and non- binging obese adult female outpatients. Eating and Weight Disorders 2003; 8: 173-177.
• Kissileff HR, Carretta JC, Geliebter A, Pi-Sunyer FX. Cholecystokinin and stomach distension combine to reduce food intake in humans. Am J Physiol: Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2003;285:R992-998.
• Averbukh Y, Heshka S, El-Shoreya H, Flancbaum L, Geliebter A, Kamel S, Pi-Sunyer FX, Laferrere B. Depression score predicts weight loss following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. Obes Surg 2003;13:833-836.
• Wang GJ, Volkow ND, Telang F, Jayne M, Ma J, Rao M, Zhu W, Wong CT, Pappas NR, Geliebter A, Fowler J S. Exposure to appetitive food stimuli markedly activates the human brain. Neuroimage 2004;21:1790-1797.
• Geliebter A, Yahav E, Gluck ME, Hashim SA. Gastric capacity, test meal intake, and appetitive hormones in binge eating disorder. Physiol Behav 2004;81:735-740.
• Hellström PM, Geliebter A, Näslund E, Schmidt PT, Yahav E, Hashim SA, Yeomans MR. Peripheral and central signals in control of eating in normal, obese and binge-eating humans. Br J Nutr 2004; 92:S47-S57
• Gluck ME, Geliebter A, Hung J, Yahav E. Cortisol, hunger, and desire to binge eat following a cold stress test in obese women with binge eating disorder. Psychosom Med. 2004;66:876-881.
• Nasser J, Gluck ME, Geliebter A. Association of impulsivity with test meal intake and binge eating in obese women. Appetite 2004;43:303-307.
• Gluck ME, Geliebter A, Lorence M. cortisol stress response is positively correlated with central obesity in obese women with binge eating disorder (BED) before and after cognitive-behavioral treatment. NY Acad Sci. 2004 ;1032:202-207.
• Geliebter A, Gluck ME, Hashim SA. Plasma ghrelin concentrations are lower in binge-eating disorder. J Nutr 2005;135:1326-1330.
• Jirik-Babb P, Geliebter A. Gender comparisons in psychological characteristics of obese binge eaters. Eating and Weight Disorders 2005;10:e101-e104.
• Ginde SR, Geliebter A, Rubiano F, Silva AM, Wang J, Heshka S, Heymsfield S: Air displacement plethysmography: validation in overweight and obese population. Obes Res. 2005;13:1232-7.
• Geliebter A, Logan M, Ladell T, Schneider T, Sharafi M, Hirsh J. Responsivity to food stimuli in obese and lean binge eaters using functional MRI.. Appetite 2006;46:31-5.
• Galanti K, Gluck M, Geliebter A. Test meal intake in obese binge eaters in relation to compulsivity and impulsivity. Int J Eat Disord 2007;40:727-32
• Wang GJ, Tomasi D, Backus W, Wang R, Telang F, Geliebter A, Korner J, Bauman A, Fowler JS, Thanos PK, Volkow ND Gastric distention activates satiety circuitry in the human brain. Neuroimage (in press)
• Rubin B, Guck ME, Knoll CM, Lorence M, Geliebter A. Comparison of eating disorders and body image disturbances between eastern and western countries. Eating and Weight Disorders (in press)
• Nasser JA, Evans SM, Geliebter A, Pi-Sunyer FX,. Foltin RW. Use of an operant task to estimate food reinforcement in adult humans with and without BED. Obesity Research (in press)
• Gupta R, Geliebter A. The Night Eating Syndrome: an evaluation of diagnostic criteria. (submitted)
• Nolan LJ, Halperin LB, Geliebter A. Construct validity of Emotional Appetite Questionnaire (EMAQ) and relationship between emotional eating and BMI. (submitted)

B. Chapters in Books

• Geliebter A. Exercise and obesity. Chapter 14 in Psychological Aspects of Obesity: Handbook. In B. Wolman (ed) Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., NY NY 1982, p. 291-310.
• Faith M, Allison DB, Geliebter A. Emotional eating and obesity. In S. Dalton (ed) Overweight and weight management. Aspen Gaithersburg, MD 1997, p. 439-465.
• Geliebter A, Funkhouser A, Heymsfield SB. Meal replacement and fat substitutes in weight control and maintenance. In A Bendich, R Deckelbaum (eds) Primary and Secondary Nutrition. Humana: Totowa NJ, 2000, p. 223-233.
• Gluck ME, Geliebter A. Body image and eating behaviors in Orthodox and secular Jewish women. In SM Lyman (ed) Essential Readings on Jewish Identities, Lifestyles, & Beliefs. Gordian Knot: NewYork, NY, 2003, p 268-277.
• Geliebter A, Ochner CN, Puma L. The Psychology of Obesity. In: Gina Tsichlia, ed. Matters of Fat. Aberdeen, UK. (accepted)

C. Reviews, Letters, and Editorials

• Geliebter A, Hashim SA, Van Itallie TB. Oral L histidine fails to reduce taste and smell acuity but induces anorexia and urinary zinc excretion. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1981; 34: 119 120. (letter)
• Geliebter A, Bracco EF, Van Itallie TB, Hashim SA. Medium chain triglyceride diet and obesity. International Journal of Obesity 1984; 8:191 192. (letter)
• Geliebter A, Heshka S, Gage D, Hashim SA. Effects of beef fat on plasma lipid and lipoprotein values. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 1986; 43:639 641. (letter)
• A gastric balloon for treatment of obesity. The Medical Letter 1986; 28:77 78. (unsigned, by Geliebter A, Van Itallie TB).
• Geliebter A, Gage D, Westreich S, McCray R, Hashim SA. Effects of intragastric balloon on body weight, food intake, and gastric emptying rate. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1987; 499:324 326.
• Geliebter A, Melton PM, Roberts D, McCray R, Gage D, Hashim SA. The stomach's role in appetite regulation of bulimia. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1989; 575:512 513.
• Geliebter A. Total parental nutrition and spontaneous oral intake. Nutrition 1990;6:341. (letter)
• Geliebter A, Guss J. Gastric distension and capacity in normal, obese, and bulimic women. Appetite 1995; 24:167.
• Geliebter A. Night eating in obesity. Nutrition 2000;17:483-484.
• Geliebter A. Stomach capacity in obesity. Obesity Research 2001;9:727-728.
• Reda TK, Geliebter A, Pi-Sunyer FX. Amylin, food intake, and obesity. Obesity Research 2002; 10:1087-1091
• Geliebter A. Weight loss and plasma ghrelin levels. N Engl J Med. 2002;24;347:1379-1381.
• Geliebter A. Discussion on Independent influences of body mass and gastric volumes on satiation in humans. Gastroenterology 2004;127:1276-7. (letter)
• Greenberg JA, Boozer CN, Geliebter A. Coffee, diabetes and weight control: Am J Clin Nutr 2006;84:682-93.
• Niego SH, Kofman MD, Weiss JJ, Geliebter A. Binge eating in the bariatric surgery population: A review of the literature. Int J Eat Disord. 2007; 40:349-59.
• Ochner CN, Geliebter A. Binge eating disorder. Obes Management. 2007; 3:161-164
• Geliebter A, Ochner CN, Aviram R. Appetite-related gut peptides in obesity and binge eating Disorder. Am J Lifestyle Med. (in press)
• Ochner CN, Geliebter A. Binge eating disorder. In: Keller K, ed. The Encyclopedia of Obesity. New York, NY: Golson Books. (accepted)
• Stunkard AJ, Allison KC, Geliebter A, Lundgren JD, Gluck ME, O'Reardon JP. The night eating syndrome: a disorder of food intake, circadian rhythm and serotonergic function. (submitted)

D. Abstracts (numerous)