Brief Bio

Dr. Steinberg joined Duke University School of Nursing on January 1, 2018. She started at Duke in 2012 as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Duke Obesity Prevention Program and transitioned to Research Scholar at the Duke Global Health Institute in 2014. Prior to joining DUSON she was an Assistant Research Professor of Global Health and Associate Director of the Duke Global Digital Health Science Center. Her research focuses on digital health interventions for weight control, dietary change, and chronic disease management among adults. Dr. Steinberg spent 15 years working in the field of obesity research, both as a clinician and researcher. During her time at Duke, Dr. Steinberg has been a co-investigator on seven successfully funded grants from NIH and Duke. Her work has been featured in the Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA Internal Medicine, and The American Journal of Public Health, as well as in mass media. She was recently awarded a K12 career development grant as a Duke BIRCWH Scholar and as part of this award is currently conducting a trial testing how to best leverage commercial smartphone applications to improve adherence to national guidelines for dietary management of hypertension for women. Dr. Steinberg earned her B.S. in Nutrition from the Cornell University, her M.S. in Public Health from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Nutrition from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is also a Registered Dietitian and completed her dietetic training at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

Academic Program Affiliations

Master of Science in Nursing Program

Education

PhD	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MS	Harvard University
BS	Cornell University

Awards and Honors

Areas of Expertise

Representative Publications

• 2016 -- Foley PB, Steinberg DM, Levine EL, Askew S, Batch BC, Puleo E, Svetkey LP, Bosworth HB, DeVries A, Miranda H, Bennett GG Track: A randomized controlled trial of a digital health obesity treatment intervention for medically vulnerable primary care patients Contemporary Clinical Trials. May, 2016; 48 12-20

• 2016 -- Steinberg DM Authors response to Questions Regarding Weighing Every Day Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. March, 2016; 116(3); 405-6

• 2016 -- Shaw RJ, Steinberg DM, Bonnet J, Modarai F, George A, Cunningham T, Mason M, Shahsahebi M, Grambow SC, Bennett GG, Bosworth HB Mobile Health Devices: Will Patients Actually Use Them? Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. January 17, 2016;

• 2015 -- McVay MA, Steinberg DM, Askew S, Kaphingst KA, Bennett GG Genetic causal attributions for weight status and weight loss during a behavioral weight gain prevention intervention Genetics in Medicine. August 20, 2015;

• 2015 -- Bennett GG, Steinberg DM, Pagoto S Will obesity treatment reimbursement benefit those at highest risk? American Journal of Medicine. July, 2015; 128(7); 670-1

Grant Funding (selected)

• A Pragmatic Trial of a Digital Health Intervention to Prevent Weight Gain in Primary Care  
  The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
  R18DK109518
  05/2016-05/2021
  Role: Co-Investigator
  This will be a pragmatic, patient-randomized controlled effectiveness trial, randomizing 442 overweight and obese adult community health center patients to a 12-month weight gain prevention intervention or to usual care.

• Optimizing a standalone text messaging-based weight loss intervention  
  The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
  R01DK109696
  01/2017-01/2021
  Role: Co-Investigator
  All study participants will receive a core 6-month weight loss texting intervention that includes tailored behavior change goals, interactive self-monitoring, automated feedback, and skills training. Using a fractional factorial design, we will randomize participants (n=592) to one of 16 experimental conditions that will test the text messaging components.

• From Episodic to Real-Time Care in Diabetes Self-Management  
  The National Institute of Nursing Research
  R15NR015890
  04/2016-03/2019
  Role: Co-Investigator
  The purpose of this proposal is to develop a mobile technology dashboard that is usable on multiple interfaces (i.e. tablet, smart phone, computer monitor) that will facilitate clinical decision-making of various chronic illnesses based upon patient generated data.

• Using digital health to improve adherence to the DASH diet among women with hypertension  
  The National Institutes of Health Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) Career Development Grant
  K12HD043446
  08/2016-07/2018
  This career development grant is administered through the Duke University School of Medicine. The purpose of the BIRCWH is to promote interdisciplinary research that will benefit the health of women and provide training, mentoring and career guidance for junior faculty advancing to an independent scientific career. The study in this K12 award aims to leverage a commercial diet tracking app to improve adherence to dietary guidelines for managing blood pressure among women with hypertension.

• New media obesity treatment in community health centers (Track)  
  The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
  R01DK093829
  08/2012-07/2017
  Role: Co-Investigator
  This study is testing a digital health weight loss intervention for obese patients with cardiometabolic morbidities in the community health center setting.

• Goals for Reaching Optimum Wellness (GROWell): A Feasibility Study of a Dietary Intervention During Pregnancy to Reduce Risk for Postpartum Depression  
  Duke University School of Nursing Pilot Grant Program
  03/2016-02/2017
  Role: Co-Investigator
  This study will test a behavioral intervention that utilizes digital health and coaching to improve diet quality among pregnant women. The findings will inform an R33 grant looking at the effect of dietary changes on postpartum depression.