Sydney Yurkow, PhD, associate research scientist in psychiatry, is first author of a research paper named winner of the Best Original Research Paper by an Early Career Scholar published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders.
The award covers the 2023 publishing period. The title of the paper is “Improvements in cardiovascular disease risk factors associated with modest weight loss following treatment in patients with binge-eating disorder and obesity.”
Co-authors of the paper are Carlos Grilo, PhD, professor of psychiatry and of psychology, and Valentina Ivezaj, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry.
Yurkow works in the Program for Obesity, Weight and Eating Research (POWER) at Yale with Grilo and Ivezaj.
Submitted by Christopher Gardner on April 12, 2024