B.S. University of Michigan 1970
M.A. University of Michigan 1975
Ph.D. University of Michigan 1981

• Mentor Award, Society for Public Health Education
• Scholar Award, American Association for Health Education
• William A. Howe Award, American School Health Association
• Honor Award, Eta Sigma Gamma National Health Science Honorary Society
• Past President, American School Health Assocation
• 17 years of public school experience plus 10 years of service as a national school health evaluator for CDC

Scholarly Interest

Alcohol, tobacco, and other drug abuse prevention, obesity prevention, child and adolescent health, school health promotion and education.

Jayawardene, W.P., Lohrmann, D.K., & YoussefAgha, A.H. (2014). Discrepant BMI: Behaviors Associated with Height and Weight Misreporting among US Adolescents from National Youth Physical Activity and Nutrition Survey. Childhood Obesity, 10 (3), 225-233.

Lohrmann, D.K., Youssefagha, A.H., & Jayawardene, W.P. (2014). Trends in BMI and Prevalence of Extreme High Obesity among Pennsylvania Children and Adolescents, 2007-2011: Promising but Cautionary. American Journal of Public Health, 104 (4), e69.

Lohrmann, D.K., Jayawardene, W.P., & Gillio, R. (2016). Stemming the Flood: Childhood Obesity Prevention in Pennsylvania, 2005-2015. Pittsburgh, PA: Highmark Foundation. 55 pp.

Lohrmann, D.K., Auld, M. E., Hawkins, M.I., Hicks, E.R., & Hutton-Rogers, L.S. (2016). Foundational Courses in Health Education: Linking Community Colleges to a Baccalaureate Health Education Degree. Pedagogy in Health Promotion: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2(1), 34-47.

Lohrmann, D. K. (2016). Comprehensive Health Education. In American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on School Health (Ed.) School Health Policy and Practice, 7th ed. Elk Grove Village, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics. pp. 155-166.

Erbe, R., & Lohrmann, D.K. (2016). Mindfulness meditation for adolescent stress and well-being: A systematic review of the literature with implications for school health programs. The Health Educator, 42(2), 12-19.

Jayawardene, W.P., Lohrmann, D.K., Dickenson, S, & Torabi, M. (2016). Population-Level Measures to Predict Obesity Burden in Public Schools: Looking Upstream for Midstream Actions. American Journal of Health Promotion, 32(3), 708-717.

Jayawardene W.P., Lohrmann D.K., Dickinson S., Talagala S., & Torabi M.R. (2016). Clinical Measures of Obesity and Cumulative Cardiometabolic Risk in Adolescents. Clinical Obesity, 7(1), 11-21.

Jayawardene W.P., Lohrmann D.K., Erbe R.G., & Torabi M.R. (2017). Effects of Preventive Online Mindfulness Interventions on Stress and Mindfulness: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Preventive Medicine Reports, 5, 150-159.

Lohrmann, D.K., Torabi, M.R, & Jayawardene, W. P. (2017). Factors Influencing Changes in Fruit Intake during Young Adulthood: A Classification and Regression Tree (CART) Analysis of Longitudinal Data. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 49(5), 427-433.

Birch, D., Goekler, S., Lyde, A., Lohrmann, D.K., & Auld, M.E. (2019). Quality Assurance in Professional Preparation and in Ongoing Professional Development of Those Who Teach Health. Health Promotion Practice, 20(6), 845-857.

Mann, M., & Lohrmann, D.K. (2019). Addressing Challenges to the Reliable, Large-Scale Implementation of Effective School Health Education. Health Promotion Practice, 20(6), 834-845.

Sutter, C., Metcalfe, J.J., Tucker, L., Lohrmann, D.K., Koch, P.A., & Allegrante, J.P. (2019). Defining Food Education Standards through Consensus: The Pilot Light Food Education Summit. Journal of School Health, 89(12), 994-1003.

Antwi, G.O., Lohrmann, D.K., Jayawardene, W., Chow, A., Obeng, C.S., & Sayegh, A.M. (2019). Associations Between E-Cigarette and Combustible Cigarette Use among U.S. Cancer Survivors: Implications for Research and Practice. Journal of Cancer Survivorship, 13(2), 316-325.

Wong, S., Lohrmann, D.K., Middlestadt, S.E., & Lin, H. (accepted). Is E-cigarette Use a Gateway to Marijuana Use? Longitudinal Examinations of Initiation, Re-initiation, and Persistence of E-Cigarette and Marijuana Use. Drug and Alcohol Dependence.