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Hey all I believe this is the right spot for this assignment. But one blaring flaw with the Rena Wing article would obviously be that it doesn't exist. Fortunately this will be a really good place for us to expand the available knowledge on someone who has contributed to the field.

References:

Suzanne Phelan and Rena R Wing. "Rena R Wing." Long-term Weight Loss Maintenance. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 01 July 2005. Web. 27 Sept. 2016.

- This is previous research that Dr. Wing has conducted but is not specifically about her. This is really as close as a reference I could find.

Here are 2 references I found that are each just one of the articles she has published in the specified journal-

1. Tate, D., Wing, R.R., Winett, R.A. Using Internet technology to deliver a behavioral weight loss program (2001). Journal of American Medical Association, 285, 1772-1777. 2.Phelan, S., Hill, J.O., Lang, W., DiBello, J.R., Wing, R.R. (2003). Recovery from relapse among successful weight maintainers. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 78: 1079-1084.

-I noticed that there are a couple articles that she does have published in the Journal of American Medical Association from the first reference and the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in the second reference. This could be beneficial in order to state some kind of facts about the publications she does have. Will it add any value to our Wiki Article if we do emphasize the amount of publications she does have in the specified journal or is that unnecessary?

• Number of publications in a particular journal is not that important. Maybe note in passing. J.R. Council (talk) 16:48, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Chasity Stanczyk (talk)

For Dr. Council:

1. I have found plenty of research conducted by Dr. Wing should we also incorporate this information into the wiki entry?

• Yes - you should discuss her research. No need to go into detail on specific publications though.

2. I can't seem to find very many publications about Rena Wing herself. There are some online websites that do a quick summation of her work but not much else. How would we work around this?

• Look her up on Google Scholar. If she has received awards and this was written up, would be the place to find background. Also, if she is still alive and active, you could contact her to ask for published sources of biographical information J.R. Council (talk) 16:48, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Dylan.Walker 21:29, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

3. Along with the question #1, I noticed that a lot of her research was conducted with another person (like the example given above), would it be more beneficial for us just strictly stay on what Wing has done on her own or add the people that also had to do with the research? Chasity Stanczyk (talk)

• If there are people she has worked with a lot, this can be noted. Also note any of her students that have gone on to do important work. J.R. Council (talk) 16:48, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

4. When searching for more information about her biography it leads to previously written biographies written about her and these tend to be on websites and not anything based off articles. Do you have any tips to successfully find information on a person's biography without the use of a previous one? Chasity Stanczyk (talk)

• If the websites are credible, like APA websites, you could try citing them and adding links. If the websites cite published biographical information, go ahead had use those sources. J.R. Council (talk) 16:48, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

New Comments from Mariah:

1. As Chasity stated, it can be an issue that there isn't already anything that is written about Rena Wing in terms of a Wikipedia article although this also gives us freedom to write in any style that we want (within the Wikipedia guidelines of course) and we can put in all/any of the information that we find. But this will require us to work very collaboratively to make sure that we are on the same page and that we agree with what we are writing about. This will become very helpful with the outline and To Do list that will be made within this coming week.
2. Refrences:
   1. Pronk, N. P., & Wing, R. R. (1994). Physical Activity and Long-Term Maintenance of Weight Loss. Obesity Research, 2(6), 587-599. doi:10.1002/j.1550-8528.1994.tb00110.x
   2. Klem, M. L., Wing, R. R., Mcguire, M. T., Seagle, H. M., & Hill, J. O. (1998). Psychological symptoms in individuals successful at long-term maintenance of weight loss. Health Psychology, 17(4), 336-345. doi:10.1037//0278-6133.17.4.336
3. Questions:
   1. When we are reporting on the biography of Rena Wing, can we take information from websites such as from Brown University where Wing works? There is also a website "www.lifespan.org" that has some background information on Rena Wing, would this website be legitimate to use for our Wikipedia page?
   2. Besides talking about Wing's family, education, and published work; what are some other aspects of Wing that we should focus on when doing research and writing the Wikipedia page?

Mkresky12 (talk) 00:15, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Combined Lead

Rena R. Wing is recognized for her well-established research on behavioral treatments of obesity. Dr. Wings’ research examined positive outcomes for long-term weight loss as well as halting weight gain in individuals that are currently overweight. This lead to an important development in Wings’ research which was the layout of a lifestyle intervention for those with Diabetes, particularly Diabetes II.

Wing began her career graduating from Harvard University in 1971 with a Ph.D. degree in Social Relations before continuing to Massachusetts Mental Health Center to complete a postdoctoral fellowship in 1973. Dr. Wing then finished 25 years at the University of Pittsburgh as the professor of many different areas including: Psychiatry, Psychology, Epidemiology. While in Pittsburgh, Dr. Wing became the director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) in 1999.

Currently, Wing is a professor at the Alpert Medical School at Brown University in the fields of psychiatry and human behavior. Dr. Wing also contributes her time as the director of the Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center at the Miriam Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. Not only has Wing dedicated her time to serving on different councils and panels including Chairman of Look AHEAD, she has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles. She achieved this by simultaneously mentoring many junior faculty members on her topic of focus. Rena Wing has gained many rewards for her work such as the Taking Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS) Award.

Sources; http://www.lifespan.org/rena-wing-phd.html http://www.weightresearch.org/bio/bio_wing.html https://vivo.brown.edu/display/rwingphd

Combined Lead with Edits

Rena R. Wing is recognized for her well-established research on behavioral treatments of obesity. Dr. Wings’ research examined positive outcomes for long-term weight loss as well as halting weight gain in individuals that are currently overweight. This lead to an important development in Wings’ research which was the layout of a lifestyle intervention for those with Diabetes, particularly Diabetes II.

Wing began her career graduating from Harvard University in 1971 with a Ph.D. degree in Social Relations before continuing to Massachusetts Mental Health Center to complete a postdoctoral fellowship in 1973. Dr. Wing then finished 25 years at the University of Pittsburgh as the professor of many different areas including: Psychiatry, Psychology, Epidemiology. While in Pittsburgh, Dr. Wing became the director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) in 1999.

Currently, Wing is a professor at the Alpert Medical School at Brown University in the fields of psychiatry and human behavior. Dr. Wing also contributes her time as the director of the Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center at the Miriam Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. Not only has Wing dedicated her time to serving on different councils and panels including Chairman of Look AHEAD, she has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles. She achieved this by simultaneously mentoring many junior faculty members on her topic of focus. Rena Wing has gained many rewards for her work such as the Taking Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS) Award.

Research Completed and In Progress

Rena Wing has been actively researching behavioral treatments of obesity for about forty years. This large amount of time has allowed her to examine many different aspects of weight loss and the different aspects that have an effect on this journey. During this time Wing has completed research on four different questions. These questions examine the health benefits of modest weight loss, how behavioral treatment of obesity can be improved, if it is possible to prevent weight gain and subsequent obesity, and the characteristics of successful weight loss maintainers. On top of this past research that has been completed, Wing has a current project that she is working on studying successful weight losers comparing those with normal weight controls versus obese weight controls.

While examining the research question about the various health benefits Wing developed an intervention which was ultimately used in the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP). DPP is a trial which was testing the effective differences between lifestyle interventions or metformin, a diabetes medication, and whether these differences were significantly variant on their ability to delay the onset of type 2 diabetes. Wing is known for specializing her research to focus on the effects and proper treatments of type 2 diabetes. During her research on the health benefits of modest weight loss, Wing recruited more than 3,000 overweight patients who suffered from impaired glucose tolerance. These patients were randomly assigned either a placebo, metformin, or a lifestyle intervention. The results of this study found that reduced risks of developing diabetes from an average weight loss of 14 pounds (considered to be modest weight loss) was 58% with the placebo in comparison to 31% with the patients who received the metformin. Wing has been still investigating this research question but has changed her focus towards cardiovascular morbidity or mortality. She is currently testing over 5,000 overweight individuals who have type 2 diabetes. These recruits were found from 16 different centers across the United States with a center at the Miriam Hospital. This study is not only focusing on the effects of weight loss in terms of cardiovascular morbidity but it is going even further by having an interest in the impact this weight loss has for the long-term (12 years).

Following the benefits investigations, Wing has also looked further into how behavioral treatment of obesity can be improved. This is a topic that Wing has been interested in for many years and has chosen to further approach this topic by comparing the different strategies that are possibly included in behavioral programs. One example of this would be that high exercise goals and structured approaches to diet increases the chances of improving weight loss outcomes. Wing's studies analyzed the role of involving overweight spouses, using financial incentives, encouraging taking breaks from dieting, and creating intra-group and inter-group competitions. Currently Wing is gaining more information on the effects of reducing variety in the diet and examining the effect of modifying the home environment. Wing has decided to expand her studies on this particular topic looking at how the internet has an effect.on behavioral techniques. More specifically, the various approaches of e-mail counseling or automated counseling.

Wing is not only interested in the health benefits and improvements of treatment, she is also curious on whether or not it is statistically possible to prevent weight gain and subsequent obesity. It has been found that there are three critical points in a person’s life which have the most effective weight loss. These times periods are childhood, the time surrounding pregnancy, and the menopausal transition. Leonard Epstein worked alongside Wing to assist in complete multiple trials on the behavior treatments of obese children around the ages of 8 - 12 years old and their overweight parent(s). Research has started to shift in this area towards focusing on children that are as young as 4 - 8 years old and adolescents. Wing went even further with this study by including herself as a participant in a single center clinical trial focused on weight loss during menopause. Wing was able to come to the conclusion that the lifestyle intervention successfully reduced weight gain and the increase in LDL-cholesterol that are usually found in middle-aged women.

One of the last focuses that Rena Wing had a particular interest in further researching was the different characteristics of successful weight loss maintainers. Wing recognized that maintenance of weight loss is an extremely high issue when it comes to the treatment of obesity. Wing used many different approaches in order to help find a potential explanation to this problem. To begin, Wing is the founder of the National Weight Control Registry which has a registry of over 5,000 people who have lost over at least 30 pounds with an average loss of 70 pounds and kept that weight off for at least one year with an average of 5.7 years. Information has been collected on the various behaviors that are correlated with long-term maintenance of weight loss through self-reported data. Wing has proven that it is possible to teach the strategies of successful weight losers resulting in improving other's ability to maintain their own personal weight loss. In an effort to continue and help others, Wing assisted in a project called STOP Regain where she found that a self-regulation intervention that functioned off of the internet or face-to-face had the ability to reduce the risk of weight regain. Knowing this information, Wing decided to create a study that she is currently working on which compares successful weight losers with normal weight controls and obese controls in terms of behavioral measures and brain responses to food cues. While looking at these different factors Wing decided to focus her attention on whether successful weight losers who have reduced to normal weight now respond to food cues as always-normal weight controls, or if they continue to respond as if obese.

Career

Dr. Rena Wing started her career by receiving her Bachelor's degree in psychology from Connecticut College in 1967. In 1968, Wing moved on to earn her Master's degree and Doctorate degree in Social Psychology graduating in 1971. She then continued her career by completing a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health as well as from Harvard Medical School in the department of Psychiatry by 1973. Dr. Wing then spent the next 25 years as a teacher at the University of Pittsburgh. Wing lectured in various topics such as Psychiatry, Psychology, and Epidemiology. In between her work in Pittsburgh, Wing also spent a couple years as a lecturer in psychology at Stanford University in California. During Wings’ years in Pittsburgh, she became the director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) in 1999.After Wing concluded her time in Pittsburgh, she continued her teaching at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Dr. Wing is currently still in the position of a professor at Brown University as she also dedicates her time to many other research panels and councils.

Professional Memberships	Year Initiated
American Psychological Association	1977
Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy	1979
Society for Behavioral Medicine	1980
American Diabetes Association	1983
Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research	1983
American Institute of Nutrition	1990
North American Association for the Study of Obesity	1990
American Public Health Association	1990

Dylan.Walker 01:43, 23 November 2016 (UTC) Mkresky12 (talk) 05:44, 23 November 2016 (UTC) Chasity Stanczyk (talk) 18:00, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

All work being done currently is being worked on collaboratively through google Docs for ease of passing on information.

Doctor Council's comments on article

At this point, your article has a lot of information, really too much. The main thing you need to do is cut this down to the essential details, and focus on her most notable contributions. My specific comments follow. I am sending the link to Ian, who will have more suggestions.

1. The lead is way too long. Most of the content should be moved to other sections. Just use the first part of the lead. (The lead was cut so it is no longer three paragraphs Dylan)
2. The section on her research is also much too long and detailed. Cut, cut, cut! Use subsection headings to make it easier to follow. (The research section was cut up and given sub headings for easier reading Mariah)
3. Career is not formatted properly for Wikipedia. Reformat and move so it follows the lead. The reason it is in a grayed out box is that you started the section with a blank space in the first line. (The career section was edited so it is up to Wiki format Dylan)

J.R. Council (talk) 03:05, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

Dylan.Walker 22:18, 5 December 2016 (UTC) All work was done as collaboratively as possible and everyone has contributed to the edits of the article. Mkresky12 (talk) 22:24, 5 December 2016 (UTC) In terms of editing the article we all put in equal amounts of effort in order to help shorten the length of the articles so that unnecessary information was cut out, we also added subheadings throughout the article to help make the information easier to read, and we moved around the format a little bit to help with organization.

Rena R. Wing

Rena R. Wing is recognized for her well-established research on behavioral treatments of obesity. Dr. Wings’ research examined positive outcomes for long-term weight loss as well as halting weight gain in individuals that are currently overweight. This lead to an important development in Wings’ research which was the layout of a lifestyle intervention for those with Diabetes, particularly Diabetes II.

Wing graduated with a Ph.D. degree in Social Relations and later completed her postdoctoral fellowship by 1973. Dr. Wing was a professor at University of Pittsburgh for 25 years. During Wing's time in Pittsburgh she partook in various organizations working on different treatments for diabetes.

Currently, Wing is a professor at Brown University as well as the director of research focused on studying weight control. Not only has Wing dedicated her time to serving on different councils and panels, she has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles. She achieved this while simultaneously mentoring many junior faculty members on her topic of focus. All of these different accomplishments have resulted in many different awards gifted to Wing.

Research completed and in progress

Rena Wing has been actively researching behavioral treatments of obesity for about forty years. This large amount of time has allowed her to examine many different aspects of weight loss and the different aspects that have an effect on this journey. During this time Wing has completed research on four different questions. These questions examine the health benefits of modest weight loss, how behavioral treatment of obesity can be improved, if it is possible to prevent weight gain and subsequent obesity, and the characteristics of successful weight loss maintainers. On top of this past research that has been completed, Wing has a current project that she is working on studying successful weight losers comparing those with normal weight controls versus obese weight controls.

Health benefits of modest weight loss

While examining the research question about the various health benefits Wing developed an intervention which was ultimately used in the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP). DPP is a trial which was testing the effective differences between lifestyle interventions or metformin, a diabetes medication, and whether these differences were significantly variant on their ability to delay the onset of type 2 diabetes. During her research on the health benefits of modest weight loss, Wing recruited more than 3,000 overweight patients who suffered from impaired glucose tolerance. These patients were randomly assigned either a placebo, metformin, or a lifestyle intervention. The results of this study found that reduced risks of developing diabetes from an average weight loss of 14 pounds (considered to be modest weight loss) was 58% with the placebo in comparison to 31% with the patients who received the metformin. Wing has continued to invesitgate this research question but has changed her focus towards cardiovascular morbidity or mortality. She is currently testing over 5,000 overweight individuals who have type 2 diabetes. This study is not only focusing on the effects of weight loss in terms of cardiovascular morbidity but it is going further by having an interest in the impact this weight loss has for the long-term (12 years).

Improving behavioral treatment of obesity

Wing has also looked further into how behavioral treatment of obesity can be improved. This is a topic that Wing has been interested in for many years and has chosen to further approach this topic by comparing the different strategies that are possibly included in behavioral programs. One example of this would be that high exercise goals and structured approaches to diet increases the chances of improving weight loss outcomes. Wing's studies analyzed the role of involving overweight spouses, using financial incentives, encouraging taking breaks from dieting, and creating intra-group and inter-group competitions. Currently Wing is gaining more information on the effects of reducing variety in the diet and examining the effect of modifying the home environment. Wing has decided to expand her studies on this particular topic by looking at how the internet has an effect on behavioral techniques. More specifically, the various approaches of e-mail counseling or automated counseling.

Preventing weight gain and obesity

Wing is also curious on whether or not it is statistically possible to prevent weight gain and subsequent obesity. It has been found that there are three critical points in a person’s life which have the most effective weight loss. These times periods are childhood, the time surrounding pregnancy, and the menopausal transition. Leonard Epstein worked alongside Wing to assist in complete multiple trials on the behavior treatments of obese children around the ages of 8 - 12 years old and their overweight parent(s). Research has started to shift in this area towards focusing on children that are as young as 4 - 8 years old and adolescents. Wing was able to come to the conclusion that the lifestyle intervention successfully reduced weight gain and the increase in LDL-cholesterol that are usually found in middle-aged women.

Characteristics for maintaining weight loss

One of the last focuses that Rena Wing had a particular interest in further researching was the different characteristics of successful weight loss maintainers. Wing recognized that maintenance of weight loss is an extremely high issue when it comes to the treatment of obesity. Wing used many different approaches in order to help find a potential explanation to this problem. To begin, Wing is the founder of the National Weight Control Registry which has a registry of over 5,000 people who have lost over at least 30 pounds with an average loss of 70 pounds and kept that weight off for at least one year with an average of 5.7 years. Information has been collected on the various behaviors that are correlated with long-term maintenance of weight loss through self-reported data. Wing has proven that it is possible to teach the strategies of successful weight losers resulting in improving other's ability to maintain their own personal weight loss. In an effort to continue and help others, Wing assisted in a project called STOP Regain where she found that a self-regulation intervention that functioned off of the internet or face-to-face and had the ability to reduce the risk of weight regain. Knowing this information, Wing decided to create a study that she is currently working on which compares successful weight losers with normal weight controls and obese controls in terms of behavioral measures and brain responses to food cues. While looking at these different factors Wing decided to focus her attention on whether successful weight losers who have reduced to normal weight now respond to food cues as always-normal weight controls, or if they continue to respond as if obese.

Career

Dr. Rena Wing started her career by receiving her Bachelor's degree in psychology from Connecticut College in 1967. In 1968, Wing moved on to earn her Master's degree and Doctorate degree in Social Psychology graduating in 1971. She then continued her career by completing a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health as well as from Harvard Medical School in the department of Psychiatry by 1973. Dr. Wing then spent the next 25 years as a teacher at the University of Pittsburgh. Wing lectured in various topics such as Psychiatry, Psychology, and Epidemiology. In between her work in Pittsburgh, Wing also spent a couple years as a lecturer in psychology at Stanford University in California. During Wings’ years in Pittsburgh, she became the director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) in 1999.After Wing concluded her time in Pittsburgh, she continued her teaching at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Dr. Wing is currently still in the position of a professor at Brown University as she also dedicates her time to many other research panels and councils. Dylan.Walker 21:55, 5 December 2016 (UTC) Mkresky12 (talk) 22:25, 5 December 2016 (UTC)Mkresky12 (talk) 00:26, 7 December 2016 (UTC)Chasity Stanczyk (talk) 18:04, 7 December 2016 (UTC)