FOUNDING FACULTY:
Daniel Le Grange, PhD, holds a Distinguished Professorship at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he is Benioff UCSF Professor in Children's Health in the Department of Psychiatry UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, and Eating Disorders Director in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Le Grange also is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Chicago. He received his doctoral education at the Institute of Psychiatry and the Maudsley Hospital, the University of London, and completed postdoctoral training at the University of London and the Maudsley Hospital, and at Stanford University School of Medicine, California. Dr. Le Grange's research interests focuses primarily on treatment trials for adolescents with eating disorders. He has authored or co-authored more than 500 manuscripts, books, book chapters, and abstracts, and presented his work at more than 200 national and international scientific meetings. His focused scholarship has been translated into Dutch, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Polish and Portuguese. Dr. Le Grange is a Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders, a Member of the Eating Disorders Research Society, Past Associate Editor for BMC Psychiatry, Associate Editor for the Journal of Eating Disorders and the European Eating Disorders Review, and Editorial Board Member for the International Journal of Eating Disorders and Eating Behaviours. He has lectured extensively across North America, Europe, Australia, South East Asia, and South Africa. Over the past 15 years, Dr. Le Grange has been Principal Investigator on numerous randomized clinical trials funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (United States), the National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia), and private foundations (United States and Australia). Dr. Le Grange is the 2013 recipient of the UCSF Presidential Chair Award, the 2014 recipient of the Academy for Eating Disorders Leadership in Research Award, and the 2017 recipient of the Eating Disorder Recovery Support Hall of Fame Award for Research.
James Lock MD, PhD is a child psychiatrist and Professor of Child Psychiatry and Pediatrics in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Child Development, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University. He is the director of the Eating Disorders Program in the Division of Child Psychiatry and psychiatric director of an inpatient eating disorder program for children and adolescents at Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. The author of over 350 scientific publications on eating disorders, Dr. Lock is a also a recipient of the 2014 Leadership in Research Award from the Academy of Eating Disorders, the Price Family Foundation Award for Research Excellence from the National Eating Disorder Association, an NIMH Early Career Development Award, and an NIMH Mid-Career Development Award. His research has been continuously supported by NIH since 1998. He lectures widely including Canada, the UK, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand.
Managing Director:
Kristen Anderson, LCSW, CEDS-S is co-founder and Director of the Chicago Center for Evidence Based Treatment and a former therapist and Clinical Director of the University of Chicago Eating Disorders Program. She earned her bachelor of arts degree in psychology from the Honors College at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and obtained her masters degree in social service administration from the University of Chicago. Kristen has provided family-based treatment in her clinical practice as well as her role as a study therapist on four NIMH-funded multisite trials at the University of Chicago. She has published multiple scholarly articles and book chapters on the delivery of family based treatment, and the use of telemedicine. Kristen was funded by NEDA’s Feeding Hope grant to investigate the use of telemedicine in delivering Family Based Treatment. Kristen’s primary interests include family based treatment for adolescents and young adults. Kristen is the Managing Director and a Faculty member consultant of the Training Institute for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders.
FACULTY:
Dr. Erin Accurso is Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, where she also serves as Clinical Director of the UCSF Eating Disorders Program. Dr. Accurso obtained her B.A. from Dartmouth College and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the San Diego State University / University of California, San Diego Joint Doctoral Program. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago specializing in eating disorders treatment and clinical research. She has served as a study therapist on several NIMH-funded multisite FBT trials and provides FBT to adolescents and transition age youth at UCSF. Her research primarily focuses on the assessment and treatment of youth with eating disorders, as well effective dissemination and implementation of evidence-based practices in community-based settings. To date, she has authored and co-authored over 50 publications, advancing knowledge in the treatment of eating disorders and mental health service delivery.
Kerri Boutelle, PhD is a Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at UCSD, and the Training Director for the UCSD Eating Disorders Treatment and Research Program. Dr. Boutelle received her B.S. in Food Science, Nutrition and Psychology from Rutgers University in 1989, and completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Illinois Institute of Technology. Dr. Boutelle completed her clinical internship training at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and her postdoctoral fellowship in epidemiology from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Boutelle directed the Services for Teenagers at Risk (eating disorder and obesity treatment program) at University of Minnesota before moving to UCSD in 2007. Dr. Boutelle was the study supervisor for a NIH funded multi-centered trial for adolescent anorexia at UCSD, practices FBT in her own clinical practice and supervises the UCSD adolescent staff on FBT. Dr. Boutelle has published extensively on child and adolescent obesity, eating disorders and eating behaviors. Dr. Boutelle's NIH research grants and interests include developing novel treatments for youth with eating disorders and who are overweight and their families. In her clinical practice, Dr. Boutelle provides individual and family-based treatment for adolescents and adults with eating disorders and who are overweight.
Lindsey D. Bruett, PhD is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and an attending psychologist in the UCSF Eating Disorders Program. She leads the Eating Disorders Program at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. In addition to providing FBT and other evidence-based treatments for youth and young adult eating disorders, she also has expertise in anxiety, depression, trauma, and parenting-based interventions. She earned her B.A. in Psychology from Bowdoin College, and her Ph.D. in clinical psychology, with an emphasis in developmental psychopathology, from Temple University. She completed her predoctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. Dr. Bruett regularly trains and consults with community-based providers on youth eating disorders care. She is the Adolescent Mental Health training lead of the UCSF/ZSFG Multicultural Clinical Psychology Training Program and an Associate Program Director of the UCSF Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program. Dr. Bruett's research aims to further our understanding of effective interventions to support youth mental health.
Danielle Colborn, PhD is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Stanford School of Medicine where she treats children and teens with eating disorders. Dr. Colborn received her B.A. in psychology from the University of California, Davis, her doctorate in psychology from Alliant International University, and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford School of Medicine. Dr. Colborn has served as a study therapist for FBT treatment development, and has extensive experience in implementing FBT with children, teens and young adults. In addition to direct clinical care Dr. Colborn also serves as the primary supervisor for trainees within the eating disorder program. Dr. Colborn has led seminars in the detection and treatment of eating disorders and provides ongoing consultation and supervision in the community. In addition to her work at Stanford she has a private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area where she specializes in the treatment of eating disorders.
Gina Dimitropoulos, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Social Work and cross appointed to the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She is also an Associate Member with the Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research & Education. Gina is an approved supervisor with the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy. Gina is affiliated with the Calgary Eating Disorders Program where she provides clinical supervision of FBT and conducts research on FBT. With Drs. Le Grange and Lock, she has also adapted FBT for transition age youth and has completed a case series with this population. She has over 17 years working in pediatric and adult eating disorder programs in Ontario, Canada. She was a study therapist on an NIMH funded multi-site trial at the Toronto General Hospital site and the lead fidelity assessor for this study. Gina’s research focuses on the development and evaluation of family based treatments for individuals with eating disorders and other mental illnesses.
Angela Celio Doyle, PhD is co-director of the Eating Disorders Center of Seattle and a Clinical Instructor of Psychology at the University of Washington. After earning her BA an MA at Stanford, Dr. Doyle received her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of California at San Diego. She spent seven years as part of the Eating Disorders Team at the University of Chicago before relocating to Seattle in 2011. Dr. Doyle has provided family-based treatment in her private clinical practice as well as her role as a study therapist on two NIMH-funded multisite trials at the University of Chicago. She has published more than 60 scholarly articles, abstracts, and book chapters on the prevention and treatment of eating disorders in youth and has presented her work at national and international conferences.
Peter M. Doyle, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist and Co-Director of the Eating Disorders Center of Seattle. He is also a Clinical Instructor of Psychology at the University of Washington. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and moved to the West coast to work and study at the Center for Eating & Weight Disorders at San Diego State University, where he received his master of arts in psychology with a specialization in eating disorders. Dr. Doyle then returned to Chicago and earned his PhD in clinical psychology from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He completed his predoctoral internship and a two-year NIMH-funded postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Chicago's Eating and Weight Disorders Program. Throughout his career, Dr. Doyle has been involved in federally funded research, publishing primarily in the areas of early response to treatment and the use of technology in the assessment of eating disorders. In his clinical practice, Dr. Doyle provides individual and family-based treatment for adolescents and adults with eating disorders.
Sarah Forsberg, PsyD is an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Francisco in the Eating Disorders Program where she provides individual and family therapy for children, adolescents and young adults with eating disorders. She also serves as an attending psychologist on the adolescent medicine inpatient unit where individuals receive treatment for the medical complications of eating disorders. Dr. Forsberg received a B.A. in psychology from Smith College and a Psy.D. in clinical psychology from the PGSP-Stanford Consortium Program at Palo Alto University. She then completed a predoctoral internship at the Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University, focusing on treatment and research for eating disorders. Over the past decade, Dr. Forsberg has conducted research on FBT, specifically exploring mechanisms of change and predictors of treatment outcome. She has also served as a study therapist on several NIMH sponsored randomized clinical trials examining FBT and related adaptations. She most recently published a book outlining best practices in supervision and adherence to FBT interventions, Family-Based Treatment for Restrictive Eating Disorders: A Guide for Supervision and Advanced Clinical Practice (Forsberg, Lock and Le Grange, 2017). She is particularly interested in elevating treatment fidelity to improve outcomes for patients and their families.
Dr. Sasha Gorrell is an Assistant Professor in the Eating Disorders Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Her clinical and supervision focus is in the outpatient treatment of adolescents with restrictive eating disorders, specifically in supporting their recovery in FBT. Dr. Gorrell earned a BA in Psychology from Columbia University, an MA in General Psychology from New York University, and a PhD in Clinical Psychology from University at Albany, SUNY. After completing her clinical internship at Geisinger Medical Center in Behavioral Medicine, she joined the UCSF team for a T32 postdoctoral fellowship in clinical services research. Her current funded research projects include investigating biobehavioral features of problematic exercise in the context of eating disorders and the use of neuromodulation to treat anorexia nervosa. Overall, her research focuses on characterizing maintenance mechanisms and shared features of anxiety and eating disorders, and using this knowledge to adapt and develop evidence-based treatments.
Brynn Kelly, PhD is a child and adolescent psychologist in the Eating Disorder Specific Care Clinic at IWK Health – the pediatric medical centre serving Atlantic Canada – and is a Clinical Associate with the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Dalhousie University. Since joining IWK Health, Dr. Kelly has focused on building capacity within the public health care system to prevent, diagnose, and treat eating disorders. As such, she is actively involved in eating disorderservice provision, supervision, teaching, and program development and evaluation. She leads FBT training initiatives and capacity building at IWK Health, co-leads a provincial Family-Based Treatment Training Clinic, and co-leads an FBT consult group for clinicians across Atlantic Canada. In addition to working to build clinical capacity in Atlantic Canada, Dr. Kelly provides education and consultation to various groups in the community pertaining to eating disorder prevention, early detection, and intervention. Dr. Kelly holds a BA from McGill University and an MA and PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Southern California. She completed a predoctoral internship in clinical child psychology at UC Davis Medical Center and a postdoctoral fellowship in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Kellie Lavender is a Registered Psychotherapist and Co-Director of the New Zealand Eating Disorders Clinic in Auckland, New Zealand, a private outpatient clinic offering evidence based treatments for eating disorders. Kellie has been working in the field of eating disorders for over 20 years with almost all eating disorder presentations with adolescents and adults. Over the past 12 years Kellie has specialized further in using FBT. She became a certified FBT therapist in 2013 and an Institute Faculty member in 2018. Kellie works with individuals and families and has a special interest in working with older adolescents and young adults within the FBT framework. She has presented widely on FBT at local and international conferences and has published a paper on rebooting FBT following perceived failed attempts. Kellie provides supervision to clinicians both in the public and private setting as well as specialist FBT training and consultation to treatment teams across NewZealand and internationally. She also provides training and supervision for Adolescent Focused Therapy (AFT) a manualized, empirically evaluated individual treatment for adolescent anorexia nervosa.
Katharine L. Loeb, PhD is Professor of Psychology in the PhD Program in Clinical Psychology at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Dr. Loeb received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Rutgers University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons. She was the founding Director of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine’s Eating and Weight Disorders Program and former Co-Chair of the Child and Adolescent Special Interest Group of the Academy for Eating Disorders. She has been inducted as a Fellow in the Academy for Eating Disorders and is a recipient of the Fairleigh Dickinson University Distinguished Faculty Award for Research and Scholarship. Dr. Loeb has published extensively in the field of eating disorders. Her research involves improving case identification of and parenting capacities in managing child and adolescent eating disorders, and systems-level strategies, including applied behavioral economics, for pediatric overweight and obesity.
Renee D. Rienecke, PhD, FAED, is a clinical psychologist and Director of Research for Eating Recovery Center/Pathlight Mood & Anxiety Centers and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University. After earning her Bachelor’s degree at the University of Michigan, Dr. Rienecke received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University and completed her clinical psychology internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago. Dr. Rienecke has extensive experience building and directing treatment programs, and was the founding Director of the University of Michigan Comprehensive Eating Disorders Program and the Medical University of South Carolina Eating Disorders Program. Dr. Rienecke is a Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders and a member of the Eating Disorders Research Society. She has worked in the field of eating disorders for over 25 years and has over 80 publications. Her research interests include the role of expressed emotion in treatment outcome for adolescent anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.
Heather Rosen, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist with expertise in the evaluation and treatment of eating disorders in adolescents and young adults. She earned her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. and completed her doctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She was a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine where she provided treatment to patients and families in the Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders Program and served as a primary clinical supervisor for psychology and psychiatry trainees. Dr. Rosen continues to provide clinical consultation and trainings to mental health practitioners in the community.
Aileen Whyte, PhD is an Assistant Clinical Professor at Stanford School of Medicine where she also serves as Director of the Stanford Outpatient Eating Disorders Clinic. Dr. Whyte received a BA in Psychology from City College New York and a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the New School, New York. Dr. Whyte completed her pre-doctoral internship training at Mount Sinai Beth Israel New York and then completed postdoctoral training at the Trauma Recovery Centre in Cork, Ireland. Dr. Whyte has served as a study therapist on FBT trials and has significant experience in the provision of FBT to young people with eating disorders. Dr. Whyte has led multiple seminars and workshops in the treatment of eating disorders and provides ongoing supervision and consultation in the FBT approach. Dr. Whyte played a key role in the development of a national clinical strategy in Ireland to increase dissemination and implementation of evidence based treatments, including FBT, with the aim of improving treatment outcomes for those with eating disorders. Her research and clinical interests include the treatment of co-occurring trauma and eating disorder symptoms as well as the implementation and dissemination of evidence based treatments.
Blake Woodside MD - Dr. Woodside’s specialty in psychiatry is the treatment of eating disorders in adults, and family therapy of adolescent anorexia nervosa. He is currently Medical Director, Program for Eating Disorders at the Toronto General Hospital, Director of the Inpatient Eating Disorders Service, and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He is a clinical member and approved supervisor for the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, and a certified therapist and supervisor for the Behavioural Family Therapy Institute. Dr. Woodside has an active academic career with a long history of grant support from many agencies and private foundations. His research activity presently focuses on novel treatments in eating disorders, including Deep Brain Stimulation, Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, and Family-Based Therapy. He has many other research interests including family issues, genetics, treatment outcome, human resource/economic issues and males with eating disorders. He has also been recognized locally and by the American Psychiatric Association for his contributions to undergraduate medical education. Dr. Woodside has a long history of involvement in organized medicine, going back to his medical school days in the 1980s. He has served in various capacities for the Ontario Medical Association, the Canadian Medical Association, the Ontario Psychiatric Association and the Canadian Psychiatric Association, for which he served as President in 2002-2003,and Chairman of the Board from 2003-2009. Dr. Woodside earned his medical degree from Queen’s University in 1982, his psychiatry degree from the University of Western Ontario in 1986, and his Masters of Science in 1990 from the Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto. Dr. Woodside lives with his wife and three surviving children in Toronto.
REGION SPECIFIC SUPERVISORS:
Fiona Duffy is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in NHS Lothian Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service where she leads the Eating Disorder Development Team, and is a Lecturer in the Clinical Psychology Department at Edinburgh University. She completed her undergraduate psychology degree in 2001, Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Glasgow University in 2006 and has worked clinically with young people with eating disorders in inpatient, intensive treatment and outpatient services since then. Fiona is the co-lead of the Edinburgh University Eating Behaviours and Disorders Research Group and has research interests in the development and treatment of eating disorders, specifically interpersonal risk and maintaining factors and the efficacy of peer support. She has held a number of grants related to preventative body image interventions and digital peer support for young people and parents and carers.
Jakki Mathers is a Clinical Nurse Specialist in NHS Grampian Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). She qualified as an RMN in 2004 and following working within Adult Mental Health in-patient services she has worked clinically in out-patient CAMHS since 2008, in both the Specialist CAMHS Eating Disorder Team and the wider generic CAMHS team. As well as direct clinical work, Jakki contributes to service evaluation and development, service user involvement, multi-disciplinary consultation, teaching and training. She is the operational lead of NHS Grampian's Specialist CAMHS Eating Disorder Team and is linked in with the Scottish CAMHS Eating Disorders Steering Group. Jakki completed FBT training in 2014, went on to become an accredited practitioner in 2018 and became an FBT supervisor in 2022. She is passionate about supporting young people with Eating Disorders and has specialist skills supporting those with Anorexia Nervosa and their families / carers and implementing FBT.
Evie Maxwell is a Senior Nurse Therapist and Nursing Team Manager in NHS Fife Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, working in an Intensive Community Treatment Team (ITS) and has practiced in child mental health services since 2003. Evie delivers nursing care to young people and thier families with a range of mental health difficulties. The majority of the young people in this service have a diagnosed eating disorder and Evie is the only accredited FBT supervisor in this service. Evie has been an FBT clinician since 2011. Proving FBT as the first line treatment to patients with anorexia nervosa (under 18 years).
Lorraine Small is a Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN) in NHS Lothian Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service working within the Eating Disorder Development Team and Intensive Treatment Service. Lorraine completed her Child Health Nurse Diploma in 2003, going on to convert to Mental Health Nursing (Degree) in 2005. Lorraine has worked within CAMHS Inpatient Unit since 2003, working with young people with a range of mental health needs including Eating Disorders. Lorraine has continued to with work with young people and families with Eating Disorders within her role as a CPN within the Intensive Treatment Service (2010) and Eating Disorders Development Team (2012). Lorraine has been practising FBT since then and is integral in the implementation of FBT within Edinburgh.
Donatella Tamborrini MSc, is an accredited psychotherapist in Cognitive and Behavioural Psychotherapy and in Interpersonal Psychotherapy. She has worked clinically with young people and adults with eating disorders for over 14 years, in inpatient, outpatient and private practice settings. Donatella has continued to develop expertise in working with patients with Eating Disorders through consistent commitment to training and supervision in this field. Donatella has an interest in mediators and moderators of treatment outcomes of eating disorders. She has been teaching as a visiting lecturer in Child and Adolescent CBT at the University of Edinburgh since 2012. Ongoing collaboration with the University of Edinburgh has allowed Donatella to develop a wider network of consultation and expertise, which has resulted in maintaining and developing supervisory and consultation experience in the field of Eating Disorders. She completed her introductory FBT training with Professor Dr James Lock in Scotland, and has continued to learn and develop expertise in FBT, under the supervision of Kellie Lavender, Registered Psychotherapist. This resulted in Donatella achieving FBT practitioner and supervision status with Professor Lock’s Training Institute for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders.
Sarah J Taylor is a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Eating Disorder Senior Nurse Specialist working within NHS Lothian Scotland in the Eating Disorder Development Team. Sarah completedher Child Health Nursing Degree in 2011, going on to complete her conversion to Mental Health Nursing Degree in 2012. Sarah has worked in a general CAMHS inpatient unit in England and a private eating disorder unit in London before moving back to Scotland in 2014 to work in NHS Lothian. Sarah has worked within the CAMHS Day Service, Intensive Treatment Service and then as a Research Nurse in Eating Disorder Development Team, implementing a number of grants funded projects related to preventative body image interventions and digital peer support for young people and parents and carers prior to her current role. Sarah has completed her Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for children in young people in 2019and gone on to specialise in CBT for Eating Disorders. Sarah has been practicing Family Based Treatment since 2014 following on from her introductory training with Professor James Lock.