Dr. Xanthopoulos has been a collaborative and interdisciplinary clinical researcher since joining Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in 2007. Her expertise is in pediatric obesity, lifestyle and self-management, intervention development, adherence, and quality of life. She has been an active and prolific collaborator on numerous grants (internal, NIH, industry) and manuscripts.

As part of her research program she collaborates with multidisciplinary research teams involving psychiatry, endocrinology, pulmonology, developmental pediatrics, and gastroenterology, and nutrition. Her contributions to projects include developing, training, and supervising the implementation of behavioral interventions to improve health, or consulting on neurocognitive, emotional, and behavioral predictors and outcomes of various conditions and interventions. In addition, she has been involved in several projects examining these variables in youth with neurodevelopmental differences, such as Trisomy 21.

BS, Pennsylvania State University (Kinesiology), 1998

MS, East Stroudsburg University (Clinical Exercise Physiology), 1999

MS, Drexel University (Clinical Psychology-Health Psychology), 2003

PhD, Drexel University (Clinical Psychology), 2006

Clinical Internship, Clinical Psychology Training Consortium at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University Child/Pediatric Psychology Specialization, 2005-06

Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Obesity Research and Education and Department of Kinesiology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 2006-07

Clinical Psychologist

Director, CPAP Adherence Program

Division 54: Society for Pediatric Psychology, 2004-

Sleep Research Society, 2012-

Pediatric Behavioral Sleep Medicine Network, 2017-

Facility Profile: The Sleep Center at CHOP