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Staff
Kamryn T. Eddy, Ph.D.
Debra L. Franko, Ph.D.
Jennifer J. Thomas, Ph.D.
Kamryn T. Eddy, Ph.D., Director
Dr. Eddy is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, a staff psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, and the director of the Harris Center. Dr. Eddy received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Boston University. Her internship was at the University of Chicago Medical Center, where she trained in family-based treatment for adolescent eating disorders as well as in dialectical behavior therapy for eating disorders. She also trained at the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University and at Children's Hospital, Boston. Dr. Eddy completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harris Center, during which she received two awards for her eating disorders research—the Livingston Award (from Harvard Medical School) and the Clinical Research Day Psychiatry Award (from Massachusetts General Hospital).
The author of over 40 published research papers and book chapters, Dr. Eddy focuses her research on the diagnostic classification of eating disorders. She studies how well the current diagnostic system, which includes anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and eating disorders not otherwise specified (EDNOS), applies to individuals with disordered eating. She has received support for her research through the NIMH and through private foundations.
Dr. Eddy's clinical specialty areas are the assessment and treatment of children, adolescents, and young adults with eating disorders.
You can contact Dr. Eddy as follows:
Kamryn T. Eddy, Ph.D., Director
Harris Center for Education and Advocacy in Eating Disorders at Massachusetts General Hospital
2 Longfellow Place
Suite 200
Boston, MA 02114
(617) 724-1744
keddy@partners.org
Debra L. Franko, Ph.D., Associate Director
Debra Franko, Ph.D., received her B.A. in Psychology at the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. from McGill University in Montreal. After completing a two-year internship at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, MA and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Eating Disorders Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, she served as the Director of the Eating Disorders Program in the Department of Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center from 1988 until 1998.
Dr. Franko is a Consultant in Psychology at MGH; a Full Professor in the Department of Counseling and Applied Educational Psychology at Northeastern University; Interim Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs for Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University; and a former Visiting Scholar in Psychology at Wesleyan University.
Her clinical specialty areas include pregnancy and eating disorders, group therapy, and brief treatment approaches. Her research interests include cross-cultural differences, the prevention of eating disorders, and multimedia approaches to treatment and prevention.
You can contact Dr. Franko by writing or e-mailing:
Debra L. Franko, Ph.D., Associate Director
Harris Center for Education and Advocacy in Eating Disorders at Massachusetts General Hospital
2 Longfellow Place
Suite 200
Boston, MA 02114
(617) 726-8470
d.franko@neu.edu
Jennifer J. Thomas, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Jennifer J. Thomas, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Psychology (Psychiatry) at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, specializing in eating disorders. She completed her undergraduate degree summa cum laude at Dartmouth College, her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Yale University, her pre-doctoral clinical internship at McLean Hospital, and her post-doctoral research fellowship jointly at McLean Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Thomas's scientific research focuses on enhancing eating disorder diagnostic criteria to better reflect clinical reality. Her forthcoming book Almost Anorexic: Is My or My Loved One's Relationship with Food a Problem? and her 40 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters describe the many forms of disordered eating that are not fully captured by current psychiatric definitions. The NIMH, Klarman Family Foundation, and Hilda and Preston Davis Foundation have supported her work.
You can contact Dr. Thomas as follows:
Jennifer J. Thomas, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Harris Center for Education and Advocacy in Eating Disorders at Massachusetts General Hospital
2 Longfellow Place
Suite 200
Boston, MA 02114
(617) 643-6306
jjthomas@partners.org
Photo Credits
Photo of Dr. Eddy by Roger Farrington
This page was last updated on February 1, 2013.
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