SIG Leadership Team

Dr. Tiffany Brown is an assistant professor at Auburn University. Her research focuses on developing and evaluating interventions for appearance-based and eating disorders in populations, or within constructs, that have been traditionally overlooked. Her current research projects focus on reducing eating disorder and muscle dysmorphia risk for LGBTQ+ and male populations, understanding factors related to treatment outcome across gender and sexual identity, the effectiveness of DBT for eating disorders, and how interoception and gastric specific anxiety sensitivity can be targeted in eating disorder treatment (e.g., interoceptive exposure).

Dr. Larissa A. McGarrity is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Utah. Dr. McGarrity's research, clinical, and education focus is in psychosocial health for patients with severe obesity, particularly in the bariatric surgery context. She is interested in intervention development, testing, and dissemination to optimize resilience and minimize risk in this patient population.

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Dr. Kim Claudat is Assistant Clinical Professor at UC San Diego, Department of Psychiatry, and Director of the Adult Treatment Program at UC San Diego Health Eating Disorders Center for Treatment and Research. Her clinical and research interests focus on the connection between eating disorders and emotion regulation difficulties, as well as treatment development and outcomes. She is particularly interested in the connection between eating disorders and common co-occurring disorders such as PTSD and substance use disorders.

Dr. Rachel Butler is an Assistant Professor at Transylvania University in Lexington, KY. Her research focuses on the development and improvement of treatments for anxiety and eating disorders. In particular, she is interested in testing novel, exposure-based interventions for eating disorders. Additionally, Rachel hopes to expand the understanding and treatment of eating and anxiety disorders in sexual and gender minority populations.​

Lexie is a graduate student in the SDSU/UC San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology. Her research interests focus broadly on the effect of stress on the development and maintenance of disordered eating and body image concerns. Particularly, Lexie focuses on traumatic stress and sexual trauma in the development of disordered eating. She also has a line of research in the interaction of minority group stressors on the development of body image.

Dr. Diane Dallal is an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Her research has focused on identifying mechanisms of change in cognitive behavioral and acceptance-based therapies for individuals with eating pathology and obesity. Clinically, she specializes in treating individuals with co-occurring eating pathology and OCD, PTSD, and anxiety spectrum disorders using exposure therapy.