Amy Ahern

Principal Research Associate & Programme Leader, @MRC_Epid University of Cambridge. Psychologist working in obesity and diabetes. All twitterings my own.

[Amy Ahern @amy_ahern]

Now over on @amyahern.bsky.social

[EASO @EASOobesity]

Introducing the Obesity Psychology, Behaviour + Mental Health Working Group.

Co-Chairs of the COWG are @amy_ahern and @JasonCGHalford

Learn more about the Working Group here ⬇️

https://t.co/0yUCC2A8Da

[EDIT Collaboration @EDIT_Collab]

Well done to EDIT Collaborator Dr @amy_ahern 🥳

[IMS Epidemiology, University of Cambridge @imsepidemiology]

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The Glucose Lowering through Weight Management (GLoW) trial has been published in @DiabetologiaJnl!

The study was led by researchers from @MRC_Epid at @Cambridge_Uni, @ScHARRpubhealth at @sheffielduni and @UniversityLeeds.

Read - https://t.co/3LnjPRH1Rw

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[Amy Ahern @amy_ahern]

A busy few days in Malaga organising the fantastic programme for #ECO2025. Still time to submit a late breaking abstract by 28th February

Hope to see you there in May! ☀️🇪🇸

[EASO @EASOobesity]

Good morning Malaga! 🇪🇸
Final day here planning the congress and organising the programme for #ECO2025.

Remember to submit your late breaking abstracts! Deadline is 28th February 2025

https://t.co/5JJnhdc7U2

[Diabetologia @DiabetologiaJnl]

A trial led by @amy_ahern, authored by @Julia_Namanka, @penny_breeze et al, found behav. weight management + dietary counselling in type 2 #diabetes didn’t improve HbA1c but may help people lose weight and be cost-effective compared with standard care https://t.co/mPjTMyWKG4 🔓

[Amy Ahern @amy_ahern]

Great to hear @CaraRuggiero discussing her “why” and the importance of finding your people in research. We’re very glad we found Cara/she found us and brought her passion and skills to our team. Excited about her developing new ideas in food insecurity and infant feeding.

[IMS Epidemiology, University of Cambridge @imsepidemiology]

This month's The Confidence Interval guest is Dr @CaraRuggiero.

Cara is a Research Associate, whose focus is Prevention of Diabetes and Related Metabolic Disorders in High Risk Groups.

Cara shares her journey from nutritionist to researcher.

Listen - https://t.co/Mtg5eiL0hD

[Amy Ahern @amy_ahern]

@SanjeePerera1 So sorry for your loss Sanjee. Sending love and strength x x x

[Amy Ahern @amy_ahern]

@ClareHLlewellyn 😂 me neither. I have a team full of brilliant collaborative women who are a joy to work with, but they are all far too interesting for “polite” to be a defining feature.
I still hold that “nicely turned out” is the worst reference I got for a PhD candidate 🤢

[Amy Ahern @amy_ahern]

Another year of PhD applications, another year of reading references telling me how “pleasant” and “polite” female candidates are..: 🙄

[Jack Birch @jackmbirch]

It was great to catch up with many of my former (and recently joined!) @MRC_Epid colleagues last night. I feel like you always remain part of the 'family' you did your PhD in

[Amy Ahern @amy_ahern]

@jackmbirch 🤐🤐😂

[Amy Ahern @amy_ahern]

The Prevention team were feeling festive last night, celebrating Simon’s beautiful refurbished home and @laura_kudlek’s thesis submission. 🤩

[Amy Ahern @amy_ahern]

@CaraRuggiero We are grateful to you and the energy, enthusiasm and ideas you have brought to the team. 🤩 We are also grateful to Brandon for supporting you to join us - and for his extra long selfie arms! 😊

[Amy Ahern @amy_ahern]

@TamlaHealthPsyc We’re lucky to have you! Can’t believe you and @MarieSpreckley have only been with us a month. The productivity is as high as the festive spirits! 🤩🥂🍾

[Cara Ruggiero, PhD, RD, LDN @CaraRuggiero]

The UK does the holidays so well and it's already been a very full month of festivities 🌟 I'm so grateful for this amazing team and the time we got to spend together celebrating!

[Dr Tamla Evans @TamlaHealthPsyc]

So lucky to work with this lovely bunch 🤩

[Amy Ahern @amy_ahern]

Congratulations to @laura_kudlek for submitting her PhD thesis and having her second PhD paper published last week 🤩 🥳 It has been an absolute pleasure to mentor this rising star in the psychology of eating behaviour and obesity and I have learnt so much working with her 🤩

[Laura Kudlek @laura_kudlek]

🔔 Excited to share this publication 🔔 We found that behavioural weight management interventions improve several eating behaviour traits like restraint 📊 We found no evidence of an impact on emotional eating - highlighting directions for future work 🙌

[Amy Ahern @amy_ahern]

New paper from our new Programme Manager @MarieSpreckley on advancing health and fostering community involvement in medical research through the Genes & Health study. Excited to apply her learnings to our work on SWiM and improve participation and engagement of underserved groups

[Dr. Marie Spreckley @MarieSpreckley]

Delighted to see this published in @CellCellPress review journal Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism (IF 11.4) 🙂

https://t.co/uFxpZvmwRj