Dr. David Allison

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And every course I took, I had to write a paper.

And so I found that it was easier if I could write a paper on the same topic, but from a different angle.

And so when I took physiologic psychology, I'd write about obesity from a physiologic angle.

And when I took developmental, I'd write from a developmental angle.

And I learned that you not only could address obesity from all those different perspectives, but in fact, you almost had to.

If you didn't address it from economic, genetic, psychological, developmental, physiological, nutritional, and so on, you didn't have a full grasp.

And so that to me was always thrilling.

And from there on, I was in.

And so that's how I sort of got into obesity.

And the science part, the sort of skeptical part, I think that's just in me.

I do.

She's pretty smart and tough, so we don't fight too often when we do their doozies.

So I did my four years at Vassar as an undergraduate.

Then I took a year off to work with children in clinical settings.

And then I went to Hofstra to get my PhD.

Got my PhD in clinical and school psychology.

Went in with the expectation that I was going to be a clinician.

Even in high school, I knew I was going to be a psychologist, and I never wavered from that.

But what that meant changed very radically over time.

And I thought I was mainly going to be a clinician.

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