Angela M. Pinto, PhD

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

196 Richmond Street

Providence RI 02903

Phone: (401) 793-8970
Email: amarinilli@lifespan.org
Fax: (401) 793-8944

Angela Marinilli Pinto, PhD, is an assistant professor (Research) in the department of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown Medical School and a staff psychologist at The Miriam Hospital. She earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology and biology from Harvard University in 1997 and her PhD in clinical psychology with a subspecialty in behavioral medicine from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2004. Prior to becoming a faculty member, Pinto completed her postdoctoral research fellowship at Brown in the Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center. Her research interests are in the treatment of eating disorders and obesity. Her eating disorder research has involved examination of how cognitive factors such as motivation and self-efficacy impact treatment outcome. Pinto's specific interests in obesity include dissemination of standard behavioral weight loss treatment through collaboration with community-based commercial programs and development of cost-effective approaches to treat overweight and obesity.

• National Institute of Mental Health/Academy for Eating Disorders, Junior Investigator Award. 2005

Brown University BIRCWH K12 Career Development Program
Angela Marinilli Pinto, PhD (PI, Subcontract)

The goal of this award is to promote the performance of interdisciplinary research and transfer of findings that will benefit the health of women through the development of well qualified women’s health investigators.  Dr. Pinto’s research has focused on public health outreach of obesity treatment, with particular focus on building collaborations between university-based treatment and commercial weight loss programs.

Guarda, A.S., Pinto, A.M., Coughlin, J.W., Hussain, S., Haug, N.A., & Heinberg, L.J. (in press). Perceived coercion and change in perceived need for admission in hospitalized eating disorder patients. American Journal of Psychiatry

Pinto, A., Pinto, A.M., Neziroglu, F., & Yaryura-Tobias, J.A. (in press). Motivation to change as a predictor of treatment response in obsessive compulsive disorder. Annals of Clinical Psychiatry.

Wing, R.R., Niemeier, H., Pinto, A.M. (in press). Weight Loss in type 2 diabetic patients: Is it worth the effort? In D. LeRoith & A. Vinik (Eds.). Controversies in Treating Diabetes: Clinical and Research Aspects.  Humana Press.

Wing, R.R., Pinto, A.M., & Niemeier, H. (in press). Maintenance: The ultimate goal. In C. A. Apovian. (Ed.). A Clinical Guide for Management of Overweight and Obese Children and Adults. Taylor & Francis CRC Press.

Pinto, A.M., Guarda, A.S., Heinberg, L.J., & DiClemente, C.C. (2006). Development of the Eating Disorder Recovery Self-Efficacy Questionnaire. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 39, 376-384.

Guarda, A.S., Coughlin, J.W., Cummings, M., Marinilli, A., Haug, N., Boucher, M., & Heinberg, L,J. (2004). Chewing and spitting in eating disorders and its relationship to binge eating. Eating Behaviors, 5, 231-239.

Coughlin, J.W., Heinberg, L.J., Marinilli, A., & Guarda, A.S.. (2003). Body image disturbance in children: The role of parental influences. Healthy Weight Journal, 17, 56-59.

DiClemente, C.C., Marinilli, A., Singh, M., & Bellino, L.E. (2001). The role of feedback in the process of health behavior change. American Journal of Health Behavior, 25, 217-227.