Jayanthi Raman Dr. Raman is a Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Health-Clinical Psychology, University of Technology Sydney. She is an experienced clinical psychologist, fully endorsed and accredited by the Psychology Board of Australia (PBA) to practice and supervise in Clinical Psychology. Dr. Raman has worked extensively in adult mental health in the NSW public and private sectors. Prior to her PhD, she was employed as the Manager- Psychology, Counselling and Discharge Planning departments / Senior Clinical Psychologist at Mount Wilga Private Hospital, NSW, Australia. Funded by a prestigious Fellowship from the NSW Institute of Psychiatry and a project grant from the Diabetes Australia Research Trust (DART 2014) she was awarded her PhD in September 2016 on the psychological and neuro-cognitive aspects of obesity. Dr.Raman’s PhD comprised of two studies: a cross sectional study testing the contribution of cognitive deficits to obesity in a mathematical model that she developed during her PhD, as well as a novel randomized controlled intervention trial (RCT) of cognitive remediation therapy in adult obesity, the findings from which confirmed the urgent need for prevention and treatment strategies in individuals with obesity Dr. Raman also teaches and provides research and clinical supervision to trainees enrolled in the Master of Clinical Psychology programme at the UTS.