Hollie A. Raynor, PhD, RD

Staff Psychologist, 
The Miriam Hospital

Assistant Professor (Research),
Dept. of Psychiatry & Human Behavior
Brown Medical School 



Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine
Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center
The Miriam Hospital
196 Richmond Street
Providence, RI 02903
Phone: (401) 793-8971
Email: hraynor@lifespan.org
Fax: (401) 793-8944

Hollie Raynor, PhD, RD, is an assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown Medical School and The Miriam Hospital.  She earned her bachelor's degree in food and nutrition from San Diego State University, her master's degree in public health nutrition from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and her PhD in clinical psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo.  Prior to becoming a faculty member at Brown, she completed her postdoctoral training at Brown in the Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center.  Her research interests are in eating regulation and behavioral interventions for obesity. She is a co-investigator of three NIH-funded grants, two of which focus on long-term maintenance of behaviors for weight loss maintenance, while the third grant examines changes that occur in the reinforcing value of high- and low-fat foods and how these changes are associated with weight loss during obesity treatment

• Finalist for Ethan Sims Young Investigator's Award at the 2003 North American Association for the Study of Obesity Conference
• Citation Paper and Most Scientific Poster at the 2003 Society of Behavioral Medicine Conference 
• Invited speaker at the Tennessee Dietetic Association's Annual Conference, 2003 
• Citation Paper at the 1999 Society of Behavioral Medicine Conference

Changes in Food Reinforcement During Obesity Treatment
Rena Wing, PhD (PI), Hollie Raynor, PhD (Co-I) 

Modifying Obesogenic Homes: Impact on Weight Maintenance
Amy Gorin, PhD (PI), Hollie Raynor, PhD (Co-I)

The obesity epidemic observed in recent years can be largely attributed to the current obesogenic environment in the Untied States.  The goal of this project is to expand behavioral weight loss treatment to the home environment to improve long-term weight loss maintenance.

Long-term Weight Loss Maintenance
Rena Wing, PhD (PI), Hollie Raynor, PhD (Co-I) 

Raynor, H. A., Wing, R. R., Jeffery, R. W., Phelan, S., & Hill, J. O.  (In press).  Amount of food group variety consumed in the diet and long-term weight loss maintenance.  Obesity Research.

Epstein, L. H., Raynor, H. A., Trivikram, R., Paluch, R. A., & Roemmich, J. N.  (In press).  Effects of changing sedentary behavior on physical activity in obese and non-obese adolescents.  Annals of Behavioral Medicine.

Epstein, L. H., Roemmich, J. N., Paluch, R. A., & Raynor, H. A.  (2005).  Influence of changes in sedentary behavior on energy and macronutrient intake in youth.  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 81, 361-366.

Epstein, L. H., Paluch, R. A., Kilanowski, C. K., & Raynor, H. A.  (2004).  The effect of reinforcement or stimulus control to reduce sedentary behavior in the treatment of pediatric obesity.  Health Psychology, 23, 371-380.

Raynor, H. A., Jeffery, R. W., Tate, D. F, & Wing, R. R.  (2004).  The relationship between changes in food group variety, dietary intake, and weight during obesity treatment.  International Journal of Obesity, 28, 813-820.

Raynor, H. A., Polley, B. A., Wing, R. R., & Jeffery R. W. (2004).  Is dietary fat intake related to liking for or household availability of high- and low-fat foods?  Obesity Research, 12, 816-823.

Raynor, H. A. & Epstein, L. H. (2003).  The relative-reinforcing value of food under differing levels of food deprivation and restriction.  Appetite, 40, 15-24.

Epstein, L. H., Truesdale, R., Wojcik, A., Paluch, R. A., & Raynor, H. A. (2003). Effects of deprivation on hedonics and reinforcing value of food.  Physiology & Behavior, 78, 221-227.

Raynor, H. A., Kilanowski, C. K., Esterlis, I., & Epstein, L. H.  (2002).  A cost-analysis of adopting a healthy diet in a family-based obesity treatment program.  Journal of the American Dietetics Association, 102, 645-650.

Raynor, H. A., & Epstein, L. H.  (2001).  Dietary variety, energy regulation and obesity.  Psychological Bulletin, 127, 325-241.