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Dr. von Ranson's mentees italicized. 

 

2025

  • Bajaj, D., & von Ranson, K. M. (accepted; 2025, September 18-20). Community psychotherapists’ use of psychological interventions for ARFID. [Poster presentation]. Eating Disorders Research Society, Newport Beach, CA, United States.

  • Erbach, M., Herman, H., Lacroix, E., & von Ranson, K. M. (accepted; 2025, September 18-20). Body dissatisfaction and fashion involvement among women who work in the fashion industry [Poster abstract]. Eating Disorders Research Society, Newport Beach, CA, United States.

  • von Ranson, K. M. (accepted; 2025, September 18-20). Diagnostic interviewing and distress in community women and men with and without eating disorders [Poster abstract]. Eating Disorders Research Society, Newport Beach, CA, United States. 

  • Bajaj, D., & von Ranson, K. M. (2025, April 24-26). A short-term longitudinal investigation of problem gambling, binge eating, and emotion dysregulation in community men. [Poster presentation]. Alberta Gambling Research Institute Annual Conference, Banff.

  • Bajaj, D., & von Ranson, K. M. (2025, May 27-31; declined). Community psychotherapists’ use of psychological interventions for ARFID. [Poster presentation.] International Conference on Eating Disorders, San Antonio, TX. 

 

2024

  • Bajaj, D., & von Ranson, K. M. (2024, October 23-24). Who is treating eating disorders in British Columbia? [Oral presentation.] Eating Disorders Association of Canada 7th Biennial Conference, Vancouver.

  • von Ranson, K. M., Tobin, L., & Muller, M. (2024, September 26-28). Parents’ knowledge of psychotherapy, shared decision-making, and evidence: Clinicians’ perspectives. [Poster presentation.] XXXth Annual Meeting of the Eating Disorders Research Society, Sitges, Spain.

  • Bajaj, D., & von Ranson, K. M. (2024, September 26-28). Which psychological interventions do community psychotherapists use to treat individuals with eating disorders? [Poster presentation.] XXXth Annual Meeting of the Eating Disorders Research Society, Sitges, Spain.  

  • Bajaj, D., Farstad, S., & von Ranson, K. M. (2024, May 23-26). Food addiction and substance addiction in community women: Prospective evidence of common and distinct emotion regulation deficits. [Poster presentation]. 2024 Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, San Francisco.

  • Bajaj, D., & von Ranson, K. M. (2024, April 13-15). A prospective study of problem gambling, binge eating, and emotion dysregulation in community men. [Poster presentation]. Alberta Gambling Research Institute Annual Conference, Banff. 

  • Segura-Garcia, C., Latzer, Y., von Ranson, K. M., Ligertwood, A. & Kjaersdam Telléus, G. (2024, March 16). Creating a global survey: How we developed the Academy for Eating Disorders Global Survey. [Oral presentation.] International Conference on Eating Disorders, New York, NY.

  • von Ranson, K. M., Magel, C. A., Lacroix, E., Wilson, S., Iacono, W. G., & McGue, M. (2024, March 16). Widening actual-ideal body discrepancies predict disordered eating from preadolescence to adulthood. [Oral presentation.] International Conference on Eating Disorders, New York, NY.

 

2023

  • von Ranson, K. M., Tobin, L., & Muller, M. (2023, September 7-9). Perceived barriers to evidence based psychological intervention uptake: The patient’s point of view, shared decision-making, and valuing research. [Oral presentation.] XXIXth Annual Meeting of the Eating Disorders Research Society, Boston. 

  • von Ranson, K. M., Magel, C. A., Wilson, S., & Iacono, W. G. (2023, September 7-9). Psychometric properties of the Body Rating Scales: Actual-ideal discrepancy as an index of body dissatisfaction. [Poster presentation.] XXIXth Annual Meeting of the Eating Disorders Research Society, Boston.

  • Lacroix, E., & von Ranson, K. M. (2023, September 7-9). Development of body image and disordered eating: Differentiating pathological versus normative trajectories. [Oral presentation.] XXIXth Annual Meeting of the Eating Disorders Research Society, Boston. 

  • Bajaj, D., Farstad, S.M., & von Ranson, K. M. (2023, May 23-25). Positive urgency uniquely predicts increased substance use and gambling and a decreased likelihood of binge eating and food addiction. [Poster presentation.] 18th International Conference on Gambling & Risk Taking, Las Vegas, Nevada. 

  • Lacroix, E., Smith, A. J., Husain, I. A., Orth, U., & von Ranson, K. M. (2023, June 1-3). What constitutes normative body image development? A meta-analysis of seven decades’ worth of longitudinal research. [Oral presentation.] International Conference on Eating Disorders, Washington, D.C. 

 

2022

  • von Ranson, K. M. (2022, September 15). Above minimal risk? Diagnostic interviewing and participant distress in community adults with and without eating disorders. [Poster presentation.] XXVIIIth Annual Meeting of the Eating Disorders Research Society, Philadelphia. 

  • Bajaj, D., von Ranson, K. M., Markova, V., MacKinnon, A., Bell, R. C., Letourneau, N., Giesbrecht, G. & Tomfohr-Madsen, L. (2022, June 9-11). Associations between bulimic/binge eating symptomatology and higher total gestational weight gain. [Poster presentation]. Virtual International Conference on Eating Disorders.

  • Smith, A. J., & von Ranson, K. M. (2022, May 26-29). Rethinking constructs on eating disorders measures: Disordered attitudes and behaviours vary by gender in a Canadian community sample. [Poster presentation.] 2022 Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, Chicago.  

  • Bajaj, D., von Ranson, K. M., Markova, V., MacKinnon, A., Bell, R.C., Letourneau, N., Giesbrecht, G.F., & Tomfohr-Madsen, L. (2022, May 30-June 3). Increased number of bulimic/binge eating symptoms is associated with higher gestational weight gain. [Poster presentation]. Canadian National Perinatal Research Meeting Virtual Conference. 

  • Bajaj, D., Farstad, S.M., & von Ranson, K. M. (2022, April 7-9). Distinct emotion regulation deficits in binge eating and food addiction versus gambling and substance addiction among community women. [Poster presentation]. Alberta Gambling Research Institute Conference, Banff, Alberta. 

 

2021

  • von Ranson, K. M., Gan, C. T., Cassin, S. E., Hines, S. A., Magel, C. A., Masson, P.C., & Wojtowicz, A. E. (2021, Sept. 17-19). Gender differences in broadband personality among community-recruited adults with and without disorders characterized by binge eating. [Poster presentation]. XXVIIth Annual Meeting of the Eating Disorders Research Society [virtual]. 

  • Bentkowski, K., & von Ranson, K. M. (2021, Sept. 17-19). Psychometric properties of a measure of behaviorally-focused addictive-like eating in two samples. [Poster presentation]. XXVIIth Annual Meeting of the Eating Disorders Research Society [virtual]. 

  • Nutter, S., McLaren, L., Russell-Mayhew, S., & von Ranson, K. M. (2021, July 13-15). Moving upstream for health promotion: Critical appraisal of research investigating appearance focused social media and health. [Poster presentation]. Appearance Matters Online, Virtual conference.

 

2020

  • von Ranson, K. M., Tobin, L. N., & Sears, C. R. (2020, October 12-16). Two eating disorder preventive interventions reduce attentional biases in body-dissatisfied university women: A cluster randomized controlled trial. [Poster presentation]. 2020 Eating Disorders Research Society Virtual Meeting. 

  • Smith, A. J., Lacroix, E., & von Ranson, K. M. (2020, October 12-16). Normative changes in body image across the lifespan: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies. [Poster presentation]. 2020 Eating Disorders Research Society Virtual Meeting. 

  • Lacroix, E., & von Ranson, K. M. (2020, July 19-24). Body image disturbance mediates the relationship between food addiction and clinical impairment. [Paper presentation]. 32nd International Congress of Psychology, Prague, Czech Republic. (Conference cancelled). 

  • Nutter, S., Russell-Mayhew, S., von Ranson, K.M., & Stefanich, M. (2020, July 13-16). Is individualized appearance-focused social media use a social determinant of health? [Poster presentation]. Appearance Matters 9, Bath, UK. (Conference cancelled). 

  • von Ranson, K. M., & Tsoumpas, H. (2020, June 11-13). Which foods are addictive? Food categories and food addiction. [Poster presentation]. Virtual International Conference on Eating Disorders. 

  • Clark, K.E., von Ranson, K. M., Farrell, N., Waller, G., & Juarascio, A. (2020, June 26). Clinician avoidance: Understanding, identifying, and responding to eating disorder clinicians’ fear and anxiety. [Workshop presentation]. Virtual International Conference on Eating Disorders.