Non-MD Clinician Investigator, Asso Prof (M) Psychiatry, Mass General Research Institute

Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School

Psychologist Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital

PhD 2008

anorexia nervosa; body dysmorphic disorders; body image; bulimia; cognitive therapy; dancing; diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders; eating disorders; feeding and eating disorders of childhood; imitative behavior; thinness

Dr. Jennifer Thomas is the Co-director of the Eating Disorders Clinical and Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, and an Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Thomas’s research focuses on avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder and other atypical eating disorders, as described in her 190 scientific articles and four books — most recently Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder: Children, Adolescents, and Adults; and The Picky Eater’s Recovery Book: Overcoming Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder. She is principal investigator on several studies investigating the neurobiology and treatment of avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder, funded by the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health and private foundations.  She has served as President of the Academy for Eating Disorders and Associate Editor for the International Journal of Eating Disorders.