What Everyone Needs to Know / Eating Disorders

B. Timothy Walsh, MD, is Ruane Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and founded Columbia's eating disorders research program over 40 years ago. Over the course of his career, he has published more than two hundred papers and received numerous grant awards from the National Institutes of Health. He has served as President of both of the major international eating disorders associations, and chaired the Eating Disorders Work Group for both DSM-IV and DSM-5. He has received awards from the American Psychiatric Association, the Academy for Eating Disorders, the National Eating Disorders Association, and the Association for Behavior and Cognitive Therapies. Evelyn Attia, MD, is a Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Director of the Columbia Center for Eating Disorders at the NYS Psychiatric Institute and New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. She has dedicated her professional career to the study and treatment of individuals with eating disorders. Additionally, she is an active advocate for individuals with eating disorders and their families, speaking and educating about these challenging conditions to both academic and general public audiences. She serves on the board of the National Eating Disorders Association and, together with Drs. Glasofer and Walsh, she served as an editor for the Handbook of Assessment and Treatment of Eating Disorders. Deborah R. Glasofer, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry) at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and clinical psychologist at the Columbia Center for Eating Disorders at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. She is involved in research on eating and weight disorders in adults and adolescents, and provides instruction and supervision for psychiatry residents, post-doctoral fellows, and other trainees in cognitive behavioral therapy for mood, anxiety, and eating disorders. She served as an

Collectively, Walsh, Attia and Glasofer have been at the cutting edge of eating disorders treatment and research for several decades now. These authors are extraordinarily well placed to provide a wide ranging and informative text on everything someone with an eating disorder, or someone who cares for a loved one with an eating disorder ought to know. Ultimately, this text serves as the perfect psychoeducational volume to empower sufferers and their carers to take the necessary step(s) in the recovery process. Daniel Le Grange, PhD, Benioff UCSF Professor in Childrens Health, Department of Psychiatry, UCSF, CA, and Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL