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Ashleigh A. Pona

Medicine · The Ohio State University

Mid career · publishing since 2015Rising activity

Publications

25

Citations

112

Est. group size

~2

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

11

Publishing since 2015

Research summary
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Ashleigh A. Pona studies the psychological evaluation and treatment of patients undergoing metabolic and bariatric (weight-loss) surgery, including how personality tests, eating behaviors, and family or relational factors relate to surgical outcomes and weight management. This work also extends to pediatric weight management interventions and eating disorder-related attention and memory biases. The research is largely clinical and applied, aimed at improving preoperative screening tools and understanding predictors of postoperative success.

Bariatric and metabolic surgery psychologyPreoperative psychological assessment (e.g., MMPI-3)Eating behaviors and body imagePediatric and family-based weight managementPatient-reported outcome measurement

Publication output has been irregular over the past decade, with active years (e.g., 2017-2019, 2022, 2024-2025) interspersed with years of no recorded output (2020, 2021, 2023), averaging about 2 publications per year over the last five years.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.0/year recently
2017: 4 publications4172018: 3 publications182019: 3 publications1920212022: 4 publications422232024: 2 publications242025: 4 publications42526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases×4
  • Childhood Obesity×2
  • Obesity Surgery×2
  • Bariatric Surgical Practice and Patient Care×1
  • Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings×1
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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