Naomi Lynch, BA

Eating Disorders Fellowship Program Manager and Clinical Research Coordinator

Naomi Lynch (she/her/hers) graduated from Brown University in 2023 with a B.A. in Psychology and a certificate in Data Fluency. As an undergraduate, Naomi worked as a research assistant for the Rhode Island Resilience Lab at Brown’s Warren Alpert Medical School. During her time there, she researched how the early interplay of biomarkers and social context can influence symptom development in trauma-exposed adolescents. With the UCSF Eating Disorders Program, Naomi leads the data collection of patient outcomes for the Psychiatry arm of the program and assists with the general coordination of the clinic’s research activities. She is also involved in several studies with the team, such as an NIMH-funded R21 project that aims to examine acute exercise response in adolescent and young adult females with eating disorders to better understand how it relates to eating disorder symptom severity, driven exercise, and free-living activity. In the future, Naomi hopes to pursue a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and to continue participating in research that focuses on improving mental health treatment accessibility and efficacy in underserved populations.