Timothy D Brewerton

Timothy D. Brewerton, MD, is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC, where he has a private practice and does consulting and clinical research. He is: board certified in general, child-adolescent, and forensic psychiatry, and addiction medicine; Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association; Distinguished Fellow of American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Founding Fellow of the Academy of Eating Disorders and founding member and former president of the Eating Disorders Research Society. He has authored over 200 articles and book chapters, edited two books and presented over 450 scientific presentations at local, national and international conferences. He has served on the editorial board of several journals and is currently associate editor of the Journal of Eating Disorders. Dr. Brewerton has been instrumental in exploring the overlaps between trauma, PTSD and eating disorders, and promoting integrated treatment approaches for eating and related comorbid disorders.