Frontiers in Psychiatric Treatment: Eating Disorders

Frontiers in Psychiatric Treatment is a webinar series designed to equip psychiatrists with the latest knowledge about advances in the field through digestible, clinically relevant updates across an array of subspecialties. On Thursday, April 28, Tom Hildebrandt, PsyD, Chief of Mount Sinai's Center of Excellence in Eating and Weight Disorders, covered recent developments in treating low weight eating disorders and the role of disgust and learning. Dr. Hildebrandt is Chief of the Center of Excellence in Eating and Weight Disorders and Professor of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai. He specializes in the treatment and biological basis of eating, weight, and addictive disorders. As an active clinician and trained statistician, he leads a team of clinical researchers focusing on cutting edge treatment, understanding the mechanisms by which treatment works, and serves as a statistician on a range of clinical trials spanning anxiety, metabolic, addictive, and eating disorders. He sits on the editorial board of several top journals and foundations. He has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health since 2007, has over 100 publications, and is well-known in the eating disorder field for developing the novel interventions and deconstructing the role of sex on expression of these disorders.