Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft, PhD, is an instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine and a licensed psychologist and certified Health Service Provider in the state of Missouri. She received her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed her predoctoral internship at The University of Chicago Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Fitzsimmons-Craft’s work aims to disseminate evidence-based interventions for eating and weight-related disorders from research to practice, as well as extend treatments in ways that will reach the large number of people in need of clinical care but who are not receiving services. For example, she serves as the Executive Director for the Missouri Eating Disorders Council Training Initiative, whose mission is to provide training for community mental health clinics across the state in evidence-based treatments for eating disorders. Dr. Fitzsimmons-Craft also researches innovative and cost-effective approaches for the prevention and treatment of eating disorders and obesity, including the use of technology for intervention delivery. Dr. Fitzsimmons-Craft has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and serves on the editorial boards for top journals in the eating disorders and body image fields, including Body Image, Eating Behaviors, and Psychology of Women Quarterly. Among other notable honors, she was named a Faculty Scholar for the Institute of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis.
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