Ann Davis received her undergraduate degree in Psychology and English from the University of Kansas, her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Western Michigan University, and her Master’s in Public Health from the University of Kansas Medical Center. She completed her internship at Father Flanagan’s Boys Home in Omaha, Nebraska and a two-year fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. She began at the University of Kansas Medical Center in 2001 where she is currently the Ralph L. Smith Professor of Pediatrics, Vice Chair for Research, and Director of the Center for Children’s Healthy Lifestyles & Nutrition, a joint center between the University of Kansas Medical Center and Children’s Mercy Hospital. Dr. Davis is a board-certified pediatric psychologist, an elected member of the Society for Pediatric Research, a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and The Obesity Society and the 2019 Past President of the Society of Pediatric Psychology, Division 54 of the American Psychological Association. She has received numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health in the areas of pediatric obesity and pediatric feeding and enjoys mentoring students and trainees in these areas.