Diana Rancourt Associate Professor and Area Director of Clinical Psychology University of South Florida

Dr. Diana Rancourt received her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, North Carolina under the mentorship of Dr. Mitchell J. Prinstein. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in pediatric psychology under the mentorship of Dr. Elissa Jelalian.

Dr. Rancourt currently is an Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Training in the Psychology Department at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. Her program of research addresses three broad questions: 1) How do interoception and food craving experiences influence eating behaviors? 2) How do individual and social factors intersect to influence eating behaviors? and 3) To what extent is food and alcohol disturbance (FAD) distinct from disordered eating or problematic alcohol use? Most relevant to this conference, her work demonstrates the importance of hunger and satiety-specific interoception to disordered eating and the utility of a two-dimensional model of food craving to predict different eating patterns. Dr. Rancourt has over 70 peer-reviewed publications and has received research support from the National Institutes of Health and DexCom, Inc.