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Dr. Xanthopoulos's research focuses on the development, implementation, and adherence to medical and lifestyle interventions, including non-invasive ventilation (CPAP/BPAP), eating habits, physical activity, and sleep. She has a particular interest in the interactions among behavioral, lifestyle, psychosocial and physiologic factors as they relate to health and neurobehavioral functioning and quality of life in youth and families.
Bio
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.
Education and Training
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
Titles and Academic Titles
Clinical Psychologist
Director, CPAP Adherence Program
Professional Memberships
Division 54: Society for Pediatric Psychology, 2004-
Sleep Research Society, 2012-
Pediatric Behavioral Sleep Medicine Network, 2017-