OUR TEAM
DR. SHANNON O'CONNOR
Principle Investigator
Shannon is an Assistant Professor in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at the University of Toledo. Shannon completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Michigan State University in 2018 after completing her APA-accredited pre-doctoral internship at the UCSD Eating Disorder Center and Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego. Shannon then completed a post-doctoral fellowship on the Midwest T32 for Eating Disorder Research at the University of Chicago. Shannon was a faculty member at Montclair State University prior to joining the faculty at the University of Toledo in 2024. Shannon's research interests center on identifying environmental risk factors for eating pathology often using genetically-informed designs.
FRANCOIS BAN
Clinical Psychology PhD Student
Francois is a fifth-year student in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at Montclair State University. She has a background in epidemiology from her Master's degree in Public Health at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research interests include disordered eating pathology, weight stigmatization, and body image. Specifically, she is interested in people's relationships with food and how cultural, environmental, and societal factors may influence their eating behaviors.
CAROLINE MARTIN
Clinical Psychology PhD Student
Caroline is a second-year student in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at the University of Toledo. She received her master’s degree from Drexel University in the Center for Weight, Eating, and Lifestyle Sciences. Her research interests include sociocultural risk and protective factors underlying eating disorders and body image disturbances, with a focus on adolescents, particularly those from underrepresented populations, and the influence of social media.
ABIGALE REGAL
Clinical Psychology PhD Student
Abigale is a first-year student in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at the University of Toledo. She received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Pennsylvania Western University, Edinboro and worked as a research specialist in the Perinatal Health and Behaviors (PHAB) Lab at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Her research interests include socioenvironmental influences underlying disordered eating, such as food insecurity, eating behaviors in women and underrepresented populations, and community-engaged research methods.
