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As the Klarman Eating Disorders Center at McLean celebrates two decades of providing highly specialized care for teens and women living with eating disorders, program leadership is excited about recent expansions to its residential and day treatment programs. “In addition to the Klarman Center’s 20...

McLean Hospital’s Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center (HBTRC) and the Foundation for Research and Education in Eating Disorders (FREED), an organization dedicated to helping determine the causes and risk factors associated with eating disorders, have partnered to establish the first and only...

The Foundation for Research and Education in Eating Disorders (FREED) and the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center (HBTRC) at McLean Hospital today announced the establishment of the first and only national brain bank dedicated to research in eating disorders . The National Eating Disorders Brain...

With multiple programs falling under the Division of Women’s Mental Health (DWMH)—each with varying areas of expertise from borderline personality disorder to trauma to eating disorders and more— Shelly F. Greenfield, MD, MPH , McLean’s chief academic officer and chief of the DWMH, saw a need for...

In September 2013, McLean launched the Division of Women’s Mental Health with Shelly F. Greenfield, MD, MPH , as its chief. We recently sat down with Dr. Greenfield to talk about the division’s roots, goals, and projects. Horizons: What was the genesis of the Division of Women’s Mental Health? Dr...

In 2013, McLean launched the Division of Women’s Mental Health (DWMH) under the leadership of Chief Academic Officer Shelly F. Greenfield, MD, MPH , whose vision is to enhance opportunities for clinical, research and educational collaborations across McLean that will improve the understanding of...

With approximately 25% of the patients admitted into the Klarman Eating Disorders Center having a co-occurring substance abuse issue, Esther Dechant, MD , medical director for the program, recognized a significant need to treat both the eating disorder and the substance abuse simultaneously—a course...