Kerri Boutelle, Ph.D., L.P.

Assistant Professor
Director of the STAR Center
University of Minnesota
200 Oak St SE, Suite 160
Minneapolis, MN 55454
Phone: (612)626-2633
Fax: (612)624-0997
E-mail: boutelle@umn.edu

Dr. Boutelle is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Adolescent Health and Medicine and is the Director of the STAR Center (Services for Teenagers at Risk), an interdisciplinary treatment program for adolescents and young adults who have eating disorders or disordered eating. She is the Psychology Faculty on the interdiscplinary Leadership Education and Adolescent Health Grant.

Dr. Boutelle received her bachelors degree from Rutgers University in NJ, her Ph.D. from Illinois Institute of Technology, and completed her clinical internship at University of Mississippi Medical School and her postdoctoral fellowship in behavioral epidemiology at the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Boutelle's research is focused on the epidemiology and treatment of child and adolescent obesity. She is the Principal Investigator of a study that evaluates obesity as a trigger for psychopathology in adolescents. She is the Principal Investigator on a study funded by the Children's Vikings fund to identify and survey adolescents who have lost weight, and compare them to adolescents who are overweight and their parents. She is a co-investigator on a grant to develop an intervention to increase and improve family meals, to prevent adult obesity.