Dr. James Annesi is a health behavior-change researcher and currently Research Associate with ICF International for the National Cancer Institute’s Evidence-Based Cancer Control Programs project and Adjunct Research Faculty at California State University, Monterey Bay’s College of Health Sciences and Human Services. Until 2023, he was Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s School of Health Professions. Dr. Annesi had earlier research, faculty and clinical appointments with the University of Georgia’s Owens Institute of Behavioral Research, Kennesaw State University’s Department of Health Promotion and Physical Education, the Veterans Affairs New Jersey Health Care System, The Chattanooga Lifestyle Center, Enhanced Performance Technologies, the YMCAs of Metro Atlanta and California’s Central Coast, and the Rutgers University Department of Exercise Science and Sport Studies (where he conducted his post-doctoral research). He is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Health Behavior, The Obesity Society and the American Psychological Association’s divisions of Health Psychology, Behavior Analysis and Exercise/Sport/Performance Psychology. In 2019, Dr. Annesi received the American Psychological Association’s Excellence in Clinical Health Psychology Award from their Society for Health Psychology.