Colleen Clarkin Schreyer, PhD
Psychology
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
About Colleen Clarkin Schreyer
Primary Academic Title
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Background
Dr. Colleen C. Schreyer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Director of Clinical Research for the Johns Hopkins Eating Disorders program. Her research interests include the roles of anxiety and decision-making in the maintenance of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, the use of exposure and response prevention in the treatment of anorexia nervosa, and identifying psychosocial predictors of eating disorder treatment response. Dr. Schreyer also provides individual and family therapy for adults and adolescents diagnosed with eating disorders and conducts pre-surgical psychiatric evaluations for bariatric surgery candidates. Within obesity, Dr. Schreyer’s research is focused on the efficacy of behavioral and surgical weight loss treatment, inpatient treatment for post-bariatric surgery patients who develop eating disorders, and psychosocial predictors of bariatric surgery outcomes including sleep and pain catastrophizing.
Dr. Schreyer received her undergraduate degree in psychology from Johns Hopkins University. She earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Selected Publications
Schreyer CC, Guarda AS, Pletch AW, Redgrave GW, Salwen-Deremer JK, Coughlin JW. A modified inpatient eating disorders treatment protocol for postbariatric surgery patients: patient characteristics and treatment response. Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2019;15(9):1612-1619. PMID: 31439529
Schreyer CC, Pletch A, Vanzhula IA, Guarda AS. Evaluating individual- and sample-level response to treatment for inpatients with eating disorders: Is change clinically significant? Int J Eat Disord. 2022 Oct 27. doi: 10.1002/eat.23842. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36300553
Schreyer CC, Salwen-Deremer JK, Montanari A, Coughlin JW. Restriction of range effects in post-metabolic and bariatric surgery outcomes research: considerations for clinical decision making. Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2022 Mar;18(3):425-432. doi: 10.1016/j.soard.2021.11.022. Epub 2021 Nov 27. PMID: 34973926
Schreyer CC, Vanzhula IA, Guarda AS. Evaluating the impact of COVID-19 on severity at admission and response to inpatient treatment for adult and adolescent patients with eating disorders. Int J Eat Disord. 2022 Nov 16. doi: 10.1002/eat.23855. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36394170
Cooper M, Guarda AS, Petterway F, Schreyer CC. Change in normative eating self-efficacy is associated with six-month weight restoration following inpatient treatment for anorexia nervosa. Eat Behav. 2021;42:101518. PMID: 33989938.
Expertise
Education
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Fellowship, Psychiatry, 2013University of Maryland Baltimore County
Medical Education, PhD, 2012Insurance
- Aetna
- CareFirst
- Cigna
- First Health
- Geisinger Health Plan
- HealthSmart/Accel
- Humana
- Johns Hopkins Health Plans
- MultiPlan
- Pennsylvania's Preferred Health Networks (PPHN)
- Point Comfort Underwriters
- Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
- UnitedHealthcare
- Veteran Affairs Community Care Network (Optum-VACCN)