POSITION
Professor
COMPANY
Stanford University
COUNTRY
USA
Website
SCENE
He is a pioneering researcher and academic focused on the application of psychology to the investigation of behaviourial change in medical and psychiatric problems, such as eating disorders, anxiety, hypertension and other cardiovascular risk factors.
In 1974 he began one of the first programs in Behavioural Medicine in the United States, that continues to this day at Stanford University.
In 1985 he focused the majority of his work on the area of eating disorders, with studies ranging from epidemiology, basic psychological mechanisms, and treatment.
The principal theme of his research has been the understanding of human feeding and its disorders, namely: obesity, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder.