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Emily E Hohman
Emily E Hohman
Associate Research Professor
Summary Statement
Emily is a nutrition scientist interested in the interactions between diet and behavioral factors on growth and chronic disease risk in infants, children, adolescents, and pregnant women.
Department
Education
Phone
Email
Office Address
129 Noll Laboratory
University Park, PA 16802
University Park, PA 16802
Professional Credentials
Ph.D.
Affiliations
- American Society for Nutrition
- Society of Behavioral Medicine
- The Obesity Society
Interests
- Impact of diet and eating behaviors on health outcomes (growth, obesity risk, osteoporosis risk)
- Prenatal influences on child health and development
- Development of healthy eating behaviors in children
- Impacts of psychosocial and environmental factors on feeding and eating behaviors
Grants and Research Projects
"Perinatal Opioid Use and Maternal Nutrition and Health Status" — Emily Hohman, College of Health and Human Development; Sarah Kawasaki, College of Medicine; Tammy Corr, College of Medicine; Jennifer Savage Williams, College of Health and Human Development; and Danielle Symons Downs, College of Health and Human Development.
Publications
Complete List of Published Work in MyBibliography: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/browse/collection/40344812/?sort=date&direction=descending
PUBLICATIONS - Refereed Journal Articles:
- Leonard KS, Pauley AM, Guo P, Hohman EE, Rivera DE, Savage JS, Downs DS. Feasibility and user acceptability of Breezing™, a mobile indirect calorimetry device, in pregnant women with overweight or obesity. Smart Health (Amst). (2023). PMCID: PMC9851426.
- Hohman EE, Savage JS, Marini ME, Anzman-Frasca S, Buxton OM, Loken E, Paul IM. Effect of the INSIGHT Firstborn Parenting Intervention on Secondborn Sleep. Pediatrics. (2022). PMID: 35703026.
- McNitt KM, Hohman EE, Rivera DE, Guo P, Pauley AM, Gernand AD, Symons Downs D, Savage JS. Underreporting of Energy Intake Increases over Pregnancy: An Intensive Longitudinal Study of Women with Overweight and Obesity. Nutrients. (2022). PMCID: PMC9183022.
- Guo P, Rivera DE, Dong Y, Deshpande S, Savage JS, Hohman EE, Pauley AM, Leonard KS, Downs DS. Optimizing Behavioral Interventions to Regulate Gestational Weight Gain With Sequential Decision Policies Using Hybrid Model Predictive Control. Comput Chem Eng. (2022). PMCID: PMC8951772.
- McDaniel BT, Adams EL, Hohman EE, Cornet V, Reining L, Kaiser Z. Maternal nighttime phone use and impacts on daily happiness and exhaustion. Acta Paediatr. (2022). PMCID: PMC9302109.
- Rosinger AY, Bethancourt HJ, Pauley AM, Latona C, John J, Kelyman A, Leonard KS, Hohman EE, McNitt K, Gernand AD, Downs DS, Savage JS. Variation in urine osmolality throughout pregnancy: a longitudinal, randomized-control trial among women with overweight and obesity. Eur J Nutr. (2022). PMCID: PMC8720908.
- Hohman EE, McNitt KM, Eagleton SG, Francis LA, Keller KL, Savage JS. Validation of a Classroom Version of the Eating in the Absence of Hunger Paradigm in Preschoolers. Front Nutr. (2021). PMC8768940.
- Nandy D, Craig SJC, Cai J, Tian Y, Paul IM, Savage JS, Marini ME, Hohman EE, Reimherr ML, Patterson AD, Makova KD, Chiaromonte F. Metabolomic profiling of stool of two-year old children from the INSIGHT study reveals links between butyrate and child weight outcomes. Pediatr Obes. (2022). PMCID: PMC8647636.
- Downs DS, Savage JS, Rivera DE, Pauley AM, Leonard KS, Hohman EE, Guo P, McNitt KM, Stetter C, Kunselman A. Adaptive, behavioral intervention impact on weight gain, physical activity, energy intake, and motivational determinants: results of a feasibility trial in pregnant women with overweight/obesity. J Behav Med. (2021). PMCID: PMC9764232.
- Hyczko AV, Ruggiero CF, Hohman EE, Anzman-Frasca S, Savage JS, Birch LL, Paul IM. Sex Differences in Maternal Restrictive Feeding Practices in the Intervention Nurses Start Infants Growing on Healthy Trajectories Study. Acad Pediatr. (2021). PMCID: PMC8349795.
- Ruggiero CF, Hohman EE, Birch LL, Paul IM, Savage JS. INSIGHT responsive parenting intervention effects on child appetite and maternal feeding practices through age 3 years. Appetite. (2021). PMCID: PMC7812701.
- Leonard KS, Pauley AM, Hohman EE, Guo P, Rivera DE, Savage JS, Buman MP, Symons Downs D. Identifying ActiGraph non-wear time in pregnant women with overweight or obesity. J Sci Med Sport. (2020). PMCID: PMC7606752.
- Pauley AM, Hohman EE, Leonard KS, Guo P, McNitt KM, Rivera DE, Savage JS, Downs DS. Short Nighttime Sleep Duration and High Number of Nighttime Awakenings Explain Increases in Gestational Weight Gain and Decreases in Physical Activity but Not Energy Intake among Pregnant Women with Overweight/Obesity. Clocks Sleep. (2020). PMCID: PMC7711788.
- Ruggiero CF, Hohman EE, Birch LL, Paul IM, Savage JS. The Intervention Nurses Start Infants Growing on Healthy Trajectories (INSIGHT) responsive parenting intervention for firstborns impacts feeding of secondborns. Am J Clin Nutr. (2020). PMCID: PMC6944525.
- Paul IM, Hohman EE, Birch LL, Shelly A, Vallotton CD, Savage JS. Exploring infant signing to enhance responsive parenting: Findings from the INSIGHT study. Matern Child Nutr. (2019). Epub 2019. PMCID: PMC6594880.
- Savage JS, Hohman EE, McNitt KM, Pauley AM, Leonard KS, Turner T, Pauli JM, Gernand AD, Rivera DE, Symons Downs D. Uncontrolled eating during pregnancy predicts fetal growth: The Healthy Mom Zone Trial. Nutrients. (2019). 11(4), pii: E899: 16 pages, Open Access Journal. PMCID: PMC6520673
- Paul IM, Hohman EE, Birch LL, Shelly A, Vallotton CD, Savage JS. Exploring Infant Signing to Enhance Responsive Parenting: Findings from the INSIGHT Study. Maternal & Child Nutrition. (2019). PMID: 30810273
- Hohman EE, Balantekin KN, Birch LL, Savage JS. Dieting is associated with reduced bone mineral accrual in a longitudinal cohort of adolescent girls. BMC Public Health. (2018). Nov 22;18(1):1285. PMCID: PMC6251190
- Guo P, Rivera DE, Savage JS, Hohman EE, Pauley AM, Leonard KS, Symons Downs D. System Identification Approaches for Energy Intake Estimation: Enhancing Interventions for Managing Gestational Weight Gain. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. (2018). PMCID: PMC6941743.
- Freigoun M, Rivera DE, Gernand AD, Pauli J, Guo P, Hohman EE, Pauley AM, Leonard KS, Symons Downs D, Savage JS. A Dynamical Systems Model of Intrauterine Fetal Growth. Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems. (2018). 24(6):661-687. PMCID: PMC6258009
- Pauley AM, Hohman EE, Savage JS, Rivera DE, Guo P, Leonard KS, Symons Downs D. Gestational Weight Gain Intervention impacts determinants of healthy eating and exercise in overweight/obese pregnant women. Journal of Obesity. (2018). PMCID: PMC6188727
- Eagleton SG, Hohman EE, Verdiglione BS, Birch LL, Paul IM, Savage JS. INSIGHT Study Maternal Return to Work and Infant Weight Outcomes. Academic Pediatrics. (2018). 19(1):67-73. PMCID: PMC6321792
- Savage JS, Hohman EE, Marini ME, Shelly A, Paul IM, Birch LL. INSIGHT responsive parenting intervention and infant feeding practices: randomized clinical trial. International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. (2018). Open Access Journal,15(1):64. PMCID: PMC6038199
- Balantekin KN, Hohman EE, Adams EL, Marini ME, Ventura, AK, Birch LL, Savage JS. More rapid increase in BMI from age 5-15 is associated with elevated weight status at age 24 among non-Hispanic white females. Eating Behaviors 2018; 31: 12-17. PMID: 30053676
- Savage JS, Hohman EE, Marini M, Shelly AS, Paul IM, Birch LL. INSIGHT responsive parenting intervention and infant feeding practices: randomized clinical trial. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2018; 15:64. PMID: 29986721
- Anzman-Frasca S, Paul IM, Moding KJ, Savage JS, Hohman EE, Birch LL. Effects of INSIGHT obesity preventive intervention on reported and observed infant temperament. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics 2018. (epub ahead of print). PMID: 29927795
- Symons Downs D, Savage JS, Rivera DE, Smyth J, Rolls BJ, Hohman EE, McNitt K, Kunselman A, Stetter C, Pauley AM, Leonard KS, Guo P. Individually-tailored, adaptive intervention to manage gestational weight gain: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial in overweight and obese women. JMIR Research Protocols 2018; 7: e150. PMID: 29884603
- Hohman EE, Savage JS, Birch LL, Beiler JS, Paul IM. Pacifier use and early life weight outcomes in the Intervention Nurses Start Infants Growing on Healthy Trajectories Study. Childhood Obesity 2018; 14: 58-66. PMID: 28976781
- Paul IM, Hohman EE, Loken E, Savage JS, Anzman-Frasca S, Carper P, Marini ME, Birch LL. Mother-infant room sharing and sleep outcomes in the INSIGHT study. Pediatrics 2017; 140: e20170122. PMID: 28759407
- Hohman EE, Paul IM, Birch LL, Savage JS. INSIGHT responsive parenting intervention is associated with healthier patterns of dietary exposures in infants. Obesity 2017; 25: 185-191. PMID: 28008749
- Berger PK, Hohman EE, Marini ME, Savage JS, Birch LL. Girls’ picky eating in childhood is associated with normal weight status from ages 5 to 15 y. Am J Clin Nutr 2016; 104: 1577-1582. PMID: 27797710
- Hohman EE, Weaver CM. A grape-enriched diet increases bone calcium retention and cortical bone properties in ovariectomized rats. J Nutr 2015; 145: 253-259. PMID: 25644345
- Hohman EE, Martin BR, Lachcik PJ, Gordon DT, Fleet JC, Weaver CM. Bioavailability and efficacy of vitamin D2 from UV-irradiated yeast in growing, vitamin D-deficient rats. J Agric Food Chem. 2011; 59: 2341-6. PMID: 21332187
In the Media
- Dr. Hohman was the recipient of the National Institutes of Health Matilda While Riley Early Career Investigator paper award. She presented her research on how the INSIGHT responsive parenting intervention is associated with healthier patterns of dietary exposures in infants at the 2017 Matilda White Riley Behavioral and Social Sciences Honors conference in Bethesda, MD.
- Dr. Hohman was awarded the "Outstanding Abstract Award" from the Women's Health Special Interest Group at the Society of Behavioral Medicine 40th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions, Washington, D.C., March 6-9, 2019. Emily presented her research on health and nutrition status among reproductive-age women taking prescription opioids.
Additional Information
Dr. Hohman joined the Center for Childhood Obesity Research in August 2014 after completing her PhD in Nutrition Science at Purdue University. Her research interests broadly include the predictors of diet and weight status in early life and their effects on later health outcomes. Dr. Hohman's current research focuses on 1) dietary patterns in pregnancy, infancy, and early childhood; 2) risk and protective factors for the development of dysregulated eating behaviors, such as eating in the absence of hunger and emotional eating; and 3) the influence of maternal prenatal factors (e.g. diet, stress, substance use) on fetal growth and related outcomes.