College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences

Jean Harvey, PhD, RD

Professor and Chair

Jean Harvey teaches people how to change their lifestyles in ways that help them to eat less and move more, which ultimately leads to weight loss of a lasting kind. For her personally, "moving" involves running, biking, swimming and skiing.

She is not only the department chair, her appointment is in both the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences and UVM Medical College. She was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to Australia in August 2012.

She is well known as the founder of the famed VTrim online weight-loss program. Her book, the "Eating Well Diet", co-authored with the editors of "Eating Well" magazine, won the James Beard Foundation book award in the Healthy Focus category in 2008.

Publications

Harvey J, Ogden D. Obesity Treatment in Disadvantaged Population Groups: Where Do We Stand and What Can We Do? Prev Med. 2014 May 27. (14)00181-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.05.015

Pope, L., Harvey, J. The efficacy of incentives to motivate continued fitness-center attendance in college first-year students: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of American College Health (2014) 62(2):81-90.

Rollo, M., Burrows, T., Hutchesson, M., Hoggle, L., Krukowski, R., Harvey, J., Collins, C. Video consultations and virtual nutrition care for weight management. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. In Press, 2015.

Hutchesson, MJ., Rollo, ME., Krukowski, R., Ells, L., Harvey, J., Morgan, PJ., Callister, R., Plotnikoff, R., Collins, CE. eHealth interventions for the prevention and treatment of overweight and obesity in adults: a systematic review with meta-analysis. Obes Rev. 2015 Mar 5. doi: 10.1111/obr.12268. [Epub ahead of print]

Ades, PA., Savage, PD., Marney, AM., Harvey, J., Evans, K. Remission of Recently Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus with Weight Loss and Exercise. J Cardiopulm Rehabil Prev. 2015 Jan 29. [Epub ahead of print]

Pope, L., Harvey, J. The Impact of Incentives on Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motives for Fitness-Center Attendance in College First-Year Students. Am J Health Promot. 2015 Jan-Feb;29(3):192-9. doi: 10.4278/ajhp.140408-QUAN-135. PMID: 25559252

Dunn-Carver M., Pope E., Dorwaldt A., Flynn B., Dana G., Harvey-Berino J. Maples: An Evaluation of a Preschool Physical Activity Curriculum. Open Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2013. DOI: 10.4236/ojpm.2013.31018, Feb 27, 2013, pp 141-147.

Pope E., Gold EC, Leonard H., Belliveau C., Harvey-Berino J. Undergrad and Overweight: Online Behavioral Weight Management for College Students. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior,(2012) 44(6):604-8.