Evan M. Forman received his B.A. in Psychology from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Rochester, and has completed clinical internships and fellowships at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and the University of Pennsylvania.  He was a long-time Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Drexel University, is a Senior Scientist at Oregon Research Institute, and is the Executive Director, Primary Care Research Center, and Ellen M. & Dale W. Garber Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Vice-Chair for Research, at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University.

Dr. Forman is considered a national leader in the development and evaluation of innovative technological and behavioral approaches to health behavior change, such as the use of third-wave behavioral approaches, the use of gamification to motivate behavior change and facilitate neurocognitive training, and the use of AI to optimize treatment based on real-time digital outcome data and to power highly capable coaching systems. He has received $18M in external funding, most from the National Institutes of Health, and has served as PI of 6 large NIH-funded clinical trials.  He has also served as Mentor on 9 NIH training grants.  He has authored ~250 scientific papers, which have ~25,000 indexed citations, and has an h-index of 70 signifying sustained, broad-based scholarly influence.  He has edited several texts, and is also the author of a clinician guide and workbook called Effective Weight Loss: An Acceptance-based Behavior Approach for Oxford Press’s Treatments that Work series.  He has served on numerous NIH review panels, as chair of the Committee of Science and Practice for APA Division 12 (Society for Clinical Psychology), editor of the APA Division 12 Evidence-Based Treatments website, and at Drexel University as Director of the Ph.D. Program in Clinical Psychology, Director of all Graduate Studies in Psychology, and Founding Director of the Center for Weight, Eating and Lifestyle Science.