[3] Field earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and Doctor of Science in epidemiology from the Harvard T.H.

[5] Upon completing her ScD, Field joined the faculty at Boston Children's Hospital from 2002 until 2015 while simultaneously working at Harvard Medical School.

[6] While there, she continued to work on GUTS and found that frequent dieting among children ages 9 to 14 was both ineffective and harmful, as they gained weight long term in the future.

[8] In 2008, Field led a study analyzing data of girls and boys between the ages of 9 and 15 from 1996 to 2003 to examine the association between various risk factors and the development of frequent binge eating, and purging.

[10] As a professor of epidemiology and pediatrics, Field led a study finding that children who engage in intense and long hours of activity per week were more likely to be injured.