Sharon J. Parish, MD

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Dr. Straebler earned her doctoral degree in psychiatry from the University of Oxford, UK, and her MSN from Yale University. She has received prestigious fellowships, including the Eating Disorder Summer Research Fellowship at the Eating Disorder Clinical and Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard University and the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy student scholarship. Before joining Weill Cornell/NewYork-Presbyterian, she served as a Senior Research Clinician at the internationally recognized Centre for Research on Eating Disorders at Oxford University. During her time at Oxford, she received specialized training in evidence-based treatments for eating disorders and contributed to the cognitive behavioral therapy treatment manual for these disorders.Her current research and clinical interests focus on increasing access to treatment for all individuals with eating disorders, particularly those from historically underrepresented groups in eating disorder research, and developing online versions of these therapies. She has trained therapists worldwide in these evidence-based practices and serves on the Academy for Eating Disorders Training Initiative Taskforce, working to ensure the effective dissemination of treatments across diverse communities.

Dr. Attia received her A.B. from Princeton University in 1982 and her MD from Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons in 1986. Formerly the director of the inpatient eating disorders program at The New York State Psychiatric Institute, Dr. Attia has more recently focused on research involving the psychobiology and treatment of anorexia nervosa. Since 1999, she has received uninterrupted funding for her research from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Dr. Attia has received a Young Investigator Award from The National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD), a Pfizer/Society for Women’s Health Research Faculty Development Award in Women’s Health, and a Career Development Award from NIMH. Dr. Attia is a member of the eating disorders work-group for DSM-5. She is also a member of The Eating Disorders Research Society and has been elected Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders.