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Professor
University of Kansas Medical Center
Christie Befort, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Population Health at the University of Kansas Medical Center and Associate Director of Cancer Prevention and Control for KU Cancer Center. For the past 15 years she has been conducting community-based research in the area of behavioral weight loss intervention and cancer prevention and survivorship. Her research includes behavioral obesity treatment trials that are targeted to special populations including cancer survivors and rural populations. Her research has been funded by the National Cancer Institute, American Cancer Society, and Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute with a recent focus on large pragmatic randomized trials examining models of care delivery for treating obesity in rural primary care practices throughout a 4-state rural Midwestern region.