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Roxanne Rockwell, B.A.
Research Manager
UCSD, Eating Disorders Program
Department of Psychiatry
e-mail: rrockwell@ucsd.edu
T:  (858) 534-8065
F:  (858) 534-6727

Doctoral Student in Clinical Psychology

Ms. Rockwell is the research manager at the UCSD Eating Disorder Treatment and Research Program where she has been working since January 2005.   Ms. Rockwell is responsible for management and supervision of several concurrent research studies examining eating disorders, treatment outcomes and assessment.

She earned her bachelors degree from San Diego State University in 2001 and spent an additional 4 years at the SDSU Center for Eating and Weight Disorders coordinating pediatric obesity and eating disorder prevention research. 

She is currently an advanced doctoral student in Clinical Psychology at Alliant International University. Primary clinical and research interests include eating disorders, pediatric obesity, and treatment outcome with her dissertation focus on neurocognitive deficits in restricting type anorexia nervosa.

Publications:

  • Trunko, Mary Ellen; Rockwell, RE; Curry, Elise; Runfola, C; Kaye, Walter H. Management of Bulimia Nervosa. Journal of Women’s Health (In Press).
  • Barr Taylor, MD, Susan Bryson, MA, MS, Kristine H. Luce, PhD, Darby Cunning, MA, Angela Celio, PhD, Liana B. Abascal, MA, Roxanne Rockwell, BA, Pavarti Dev, PhD, Andrew J. Winzelberg, PhD, Denise E. Wilfley, PhD. (2006). Prevention of eating disorders in at-risk college-age women. Archives of general psychiatry, 63(8), 881-8.
  • Taylor, C. Barr; Bryson, Susan; Celio, Angela; Luce, Kristine; Cunning, Darby; Abascal, Liana; Rockwell, Roxanne; Field, Alison; Striegel-Moore, Ruth; Winzelberg, Andrew; Wilfley, Denise (2006). The adverse effect of negative comments about weight and shape from family and siblings on women at high risk for eating disorders. Pediatrics, 118(2), 731-8.
  • Celio, Christine I., Kristine H. Luce, Susan W. Bryson, Darby Cunning, Roxanne Rockwell, Angela A. Celio, Denise E. Wilfley, C. Barr Taylor (2006). Use of diet pills and other dieting aids in a college population with high weight and shape concerns. The international journal of eating disorders, 39(6), 492-7.

Presentations:

  • Rockwell, Roxanne E; Ho, Judy. Children and Teens Afraid to Eat: Adolescent Eating Disorders; Invited Guest lecture for Adolescent Psychology ; San Diego State University September 2006
  • Wilfley, D.E., Celio, A.A., Zabinski, M.F., Rockwell, R., Abascal, L., Manwaring, J.L., Winzelberg, A., & Taylor, C.B. (2002, June). Internet-based interventions for the prevention of eating disorders. Invited presentation for the Society for Psychotherapy Research International Conference 2002, Santa Barbara, California.
  • Rockwell, R. (2002, March). Eating Disorders Awareness and Prevention. Invited Presentation for the SDSU Living and Learning Center, San Diego, California.

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