Dr. Kathryn Ross

not an exaggeration, I would not be working in science today if this had been the situation at NIH when I started my lab

Adaptive vs Monthly Support for Weight-Loss Maintenance This randomized clinical trial evaluates whether weight regain is reduced via provision of telephone-based extended care on an adaptive schedule, triggered by a study algorithm that estimates when ind...

Our team found that, for wt loss maintenance, extended-care delivered on an individually-adapted schedule did not out perform our gold standard 1x/month program. Although null results are never fun, the clinician in me was ecstatic that BOTH groups did so well! Link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

JAMA Network Open presents an RCT on adaptive vs monthly support for weight-loss maintenance. It shows the population, intervention, findings, settings, and primary outcome, with a graph showing body weight change over time.

RCT: Providing extended care via telephone—whether on an adaptive or static monthly schedule—resulted in similar long-term weight-loss maintenance among adults with obesity.

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Yep, just found out our NIDDK R01 scored at 7th percentile (which had been sent to GMS/got a JIT request which we dropped everything to response to) didnt make it past the new cut

Thank you @jackmbirch.bsky.social for summarising your experiences at our recent #DigitalHealthDivide2025 workshop at @univie.ac.at!

At #ICBM2025 : Dr. Roberto Benzo from OSU finds a high ownership of fitness trackers in cancer survivors. Number one barrier to ownership: cost!

At #ICBM2025 ? Stop by my talk tomorrow in the 11:45-1:15 session (OP06, room HS03) — I’m excited to present the primary outcomes of the Project STAR trial!

So how are bigger research teams dealing with journals now saying we have to pay APCs (of several thousand dollars each) for ALL papers coming out of NIH-supported projects? Who has this kind of $$?!

At #ISBNPA2025 in a wonderful session on ultra-processed foods that has turned into a deep discussion on gender inequities and time scarcity; when focusing on the food system alone we may be ignoring much bigger probs. How do we make it so we have the time & resources to cook & eat healthy foods?

At #ISBNPA2025? Stop by this mHealth/eHealth paper session later today to hear me talk about our pilot of a novel, microrandomized factorial trial design aimed at optimizing feedback for self-monitoring (Waitakere 1)

Patient-Delivered Continuous Care for Weight Loss Maintenance YouTube video by JAMA Network

Bonus: JAMA Internal Medicine also released a podcast interviewing us both! Find it on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gJx...

Mentor and Peer Support for Long-Term Weight Loss Maintenance Obesity remains a substantial public health challenge in the US, affecting more than 40% of US adults.1 There exist a range of effective weight loss treatments, including comprehensive lifestyle inter...

I was honored to be asked to write a commentary for Dr. Tricia Leahey's recent trial focused on using mentor/peer support to promote long-term weight loss maintenance, published in JAMA Internal Medicine! Gift link to the article below: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

“You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.”
― Jodi Picoult

#WritingSky #AcademicSky

For a big job update: I've enjoyed my time at UF, but as of May 12 I'll be starting as a Senior Scientist at the Advocate Aurora Research Institute, with a faculty appointment at the Wake Forest School of Medicine. I'm excited for new collaborations & having much more time to focus on research!

It’s almost time for #SBM2025 ! One of our UFHPL grad students made this handy guide to our team’s presentations! (And a plug to vote for me for member delegate if you still haven’t voted in the board election!)

I've been told that being a successful researcher will require pivoting, adapting, & a willingness to "scrub" grants of "contentious" words. But I worry that as researchers self-censor, we will also inadvertently promote this administration’s misguided agenda. This isn't how science works.

Studies show that funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) contributed to 354 of 356 drugs (99.4%) approved by the FDA from 2010 to 2019. Recklessly slashing NIH funding will mean that patients will be waiting much longer for life-saving treatments.

a man in a red suit and tie is holding a piece of paper that says breaking news on it ALT: a man in a red suit and tie is holding a piece of paper that says breaking news on it

Some good-ish news from NIH

“Federal Register notices for study sections run by CSR (but not those by ICs) will start being permitted again”

As far as I know, the timing for this is not clear, but I will be checking the Federal Register.

Congratulations to our outgoing PhD Clinical Psychology Trainees as they move on to finish their final clinical training year! Once again our department gets to celebrate a 100% match rate!

Reference Collection to push back against "Common Statistical Myths" Note: This topic is a wiki, meaning that this main body of the topic can be edited by others. Use the Reply button only to post questions or comments about material contained in the body, or to sugge...

In clinical research, you will often receive feedback on study design, stats, and/or data analysis from an editor or reviewer that is simply wrong. Here is a list of common "statistical myths" and references you can use to push back.

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UF has 520 NIH grants totaling $212,488,586. Do the math. And check your school here: report.nih.gov/award/index....

The NIH capping the indirect cost rate (IDC) for grants at 15% can best be described as a direct assault on Universities. It’s such a bureaucratic, innocuous sounding thing that actually means that research universities will be kneecapped. Thousands of employees across the US will lose their jobs.

8. It is difficult to overstate what a catastrophe this will be for the US research and education systems, particular in biomedical fields.

It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses.

The goal is destroy US universities.

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Public Health Journal Won't Be Complicit in Trump Admin's Censorship — "We will publish things under our guidelines, under our ethical principles" by Kristina Fiore, Director of Enterprise & Investigative Reporting, MedPage Today February 4, 2025

“We at the American Journal of Public Health have no interest in following the president's prohibitions on language," said Georges Benjamin, MD, publisher of AJPH 👏👏👏

www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

Historically underrepresented in clinical studies, LGBTQIA+ people face systemic barriers that perpetuate health inequities and hinder the advancement of medical knowledge tailored to their needs.

A Comment article in Nature Medicine argues that clinical research should recruit participants from LGBTQIA+ populations, which requires specific actions and policies to create affirming and welcoming environments. https://go.nature.com/3WILuQi 🧪

I hope you will all join me in expressing your thanks to the NIH and NSF staff who are working in an impossibly difficult and chaotic environment to keep science going in our country.

Data point: I heard from the SRO on a grant application that should have been reviewed last week. He indicated that they were allowed to start rescheduling study section meetings as of this afternoon.