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William Stewart Agras

Professor

Stanford University

POSITION

Professor

COMPANY

Stanford University

COUNTRY

USA

Website

Stanford Medical School

SCENE

Health

What makes William Stewart Agras a Global Shaker?

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.

Last updated: April 18, 2018