Curriculum Vitae - The Department of Global Health and Social ...

Date Prepared: August 12, 2010 

Curriculum Vitae 

Name: Anne Edith Becker, M.D., Ph.D., Sc.M. 

Office Address: Department of Global Health and Social Medicine 

Harvard Medical School 

641 Huntington Avenue 

Boston, MA 02115 

Department of Psychiatry 

Massachusetts General Hospital 

15 Parkman Street; WAC-816C 

Boston, MA 02114 

Work Phone: 617-432-1009 (HMS) 

617-724-2934 (MGH) 

Work Email: anne_becker@hms.harvard.edu 

Work FAX: 617-432-2565 

Place of Birth: Milwaukee, Wisconsin 

Education 

1983 A.B. 

Summa cum laude 

1990 Ph.D. Anthropology 

Arthur Kleinman, M.D. 

Anthropology Harvard College 

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Harvard University 

Graduate School of Arts & 

Sciences 

1990 M.D. Medicine Harvard Medical School 

2005 Sc.M. Epidemiology Harvard School of Public 

Health

Postdoctoral Training 

1990-1991 Internship Internal Medicine Massachusetts General 

Hospital 

1991-1994 Residency Psychiatry Massachusetts General 

Hospital 

1994-1995 Fellowship Psychiatry Massachusetts General 

Hospital 

Faculty Academic Appointments 

1995-2004 Assistant Professor of 

Medical Anthropology 

1999-2004 Assistant Professor of 

Psychiatry 

2004– Associate Professor of 

Social Medicine 

2004– Associate Professor of 

Psychiatry 

Social Medicine Harvard Medical School 

Psychiatry Harvard Medical School 

Global Health & 

Social Medicine 

Appointments at Hospitals/Affiliated Institutions 

1995-2002 Clinical Assistant in 

Psychiatry 

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Psychiatry Harvard Medical School 

Psychiatry Massachusetts General 

Hospital 

2002-2005 Assistant Psychiatrist Psychiatry Massachusetts General 

Hospital 

2005-2008 Associate Psychiatrist 

Psychiatry Massachusetts General 

Hospital 

2008– Psychiatrist Psychiatry Massachusetts General 

Hospital 

Other Professional Positions 

2007– Adjunct Associate Professor Department of Child & Youth Care 

University of Victoria, Vancouver, Canada

Major Administrative Leadership Positions 

Local 

1995-2001 Director of Research and Training Harvard Eating Disorders Center, Harvard 

Medical School 

1996-1999 Academic Director Freeman Foundation Chinese and Southeast 

Asian Exchange and Fellowship Program, 


1997-1999 

1998 

Conference Co-organizer 

Symposium Co-organizer 

3 

Annual Conferences on Health and Social 

Change in Africa and Asia, Harvard 


Practicing Medicine in Asia: Ethical 

Challenges, Harvard Medical School 

1999-2003 Co-Director Freeman Foundation Chinese and Southeast 

Asian Exchange and Fellowship Program, 


1999 Conference Co-organizer Fourth Annual Conference on Health and 

Social Change in Asia: “Mental Health 

Services and Training in Asia," Harvard 


2001– 

Director Eating Disorders Clinical and Research 

Program, Massachusetts General Hospital 

2002 Conference Co-organizer 

Fifth Annual Conference on Health and 

Social Change in Asia: “Health Policy and 

Planning in Asia," Harvard Medical School 

2003 Conference Co-organizer Sixth Annual Conference on Health and 

Social Change in Asia: "Global Psychiatry: 

Innovative Services, Research, and Policy," 


2004 -2008 Chair Data Safety Monitoring Board, The Effects of 

Testosterone and Actonel on Bone Density in 

Anorexia Nervosa, Massachusetts General 

Hospital 

2008– Director Social Sciences MD-PhD Program, Harvard 


2009– Vice Chair Department of Global Health and Social 

Medicine, Harvard Medical School

National and International 

1995-1996 Associate Scientific Director National Eating Disorders Screening 

Program, National Mental Illness Screening 

Project 

2005-2007 Co-Chair, Scientific Program 2007 International Conference on Eating 

Disorders, Baltimore 

Committee Service 

Local 

1997-1998 Admissions Committee Harvard Medical School 

1997-2002 Grand Rounds Committee Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts 

General Hospital 

1997-2002 Data Safety Monitoring Board Effects of rhIGF-I and Estrogen on Bone 

Density in Anorexia Nervosa, Boston, MA 

1999-2005 Faculty Council Harvard Medical School 

2002-2003 Docket Committee Member 

2003-2004 Screening Committee Member 

2003– Promotions Committee Department of Psychiatry, 


2003-2004 Planning Committee Member Division of International Psychiatry 


2004-2007 Advisory Board Psychiatry Academy, Massachusetts General 

Hospital 

2007-2008 Steering Committee of Psychiatric Research Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts 


2007-2008 Social Science and Global Health Advisory 

Group 

2008- Social Sciences MD-PhD Program 

Committee 

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2008– MD-PhD Committee of Advisors Harvard Medical School 

2010- MD-PhD Program Standing Committee 

2010– LCME Sub-committee on Research and 

Academic Environment 


Harvard Medical School

2010 Reviewer for the Rose Seegal Prize Harvard Medical School 

2010 Faculty Advisory Board, Harvard Global 

Medical Brigades 

2010 Subcommittee on Global Health of the 

Scholars in Medicine Task Force 

2010 

Regional 

Steering Committee [ For implementation of 

‘Developing a Strategic Planning Process’, 

and ‘Enhancing the People Model’ 

initiatives] 

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Harvard College 


Partners In Health 

2004 Panel member Blue Cross-Blue Shield of 

Massachusetts/Magellan Health Services 

Expert Panel on Eating Disorders 

National and International 

1995 Examiner, Part II Examination American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology 

2003-2006 Clinical and Scientific Advisory Council 

Member 

National Eating Disorders Association 

2005-2006 Professional and Patient Advisory Committee Bulimia Nervosa: Resource Guide for 

Families and Friends 

2007– DSM-5 Eating Disorders Work Group American Psychiatric Association 

2010– DSM-5 Subcommittee on Culture Bound 

Syndromes 

American Psychiatric Association 

2010– Programme Committee 10th International London Conference on 

Eating Disorders, 2011 

2010- Delphi Panel of the Grand Challenges in 

Global Mental Health Initiative 

Professional Societies 

1989– American Anthropological Association 

1989– Society for Medical Anthropology; 

U.S. National Institute of Mental 

Health (NIMH) and the Global Alliance for 

Chronic Diseases, in collaboration with the 

Wellcome Trust, the McLaughlin-Rotman 

Centre for Global Health, and the London 

School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

1989– Society for Psychological Anthropology 

1989– American Ethnological Society 

1996–2004 

World Psychiatric Association, Transcultural 

Psychiatry Section 

1996– Massachusetts Medical Society 

1996– Eating Disorders Research Society 

1996– Academy for Eating Disorders 

2003-2005 Scientific Program Committee 

2005-2007 Scientific Program Committee, Co-chair 

2006-2009 Teaching Days Committee 

2007-2009 Scientific Program Committee 

2007-2009 Director for Teaching Days 

2007– Board of Directors 

2008-2009 Print Media Committee 

2008-2009 Chair, Journal Advisory Committee 

2009– Fellow 

2009– Executive Committee 

2009–10 Finance Committee 

2009– Development Committee 

2009–10 Treasurer 

2010- Research Practice Committee 

2010– President-Elect 

1998– American Psychopathological Association 

2002– Massachusetts Psychiatric Society 

2002– American Psychiatric Association 

2006– Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry 

2006– Cultural Psychiatry Committee, member 

Grant Review Activities 

1996 Radcliffe Research Support Program Radcliffe Institute 

Ad hoc Reviewer 

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2002 Health and Body Image: Media’s Message to 

Youth Project 

2006 

National Research Service Award 

Institutional Training Grants (T32) 

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William T. Grant Foundation 


National Institute of Mental Health 


2006-2007 Milton Fund Harvard Medical School 

2005, 2009 

Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program 

Review Committee 

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study 


2009-2010 NIMH AED Travel Fellowships AED/NIMH Travel Fellowship Council 

Member and Reviewer 

2010 Cultural Anthropology Program National Science Foundation 

Editorial Activities 


Academic Psychiatry 

American Journal of Psychiatry 

Behaviour Research and Therapy 

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology 

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 

Ethnicity and Health 

International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research 

The Lancet 

Medical Anthropology Quarterly 

New England Journal of Medicine 

Psychological Medicine 

Psychosomatics 

Public Health Nutrition 

Transcultural Psychiatry 

Social Science & Medicine 

Ad hoc Reviewer

Other Editorial Roles 

1997-2007 Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 

Associate Editor (1997-2000) 

Co-Editor in Chief (2000-2007) 

Special issue editor, “New Global 

Perspectives on Eating Disorders” (2004) 

1998 Psychosomatic Medicine 

Guest Co-editor, special issue on 

“Sociosomatics: The Contributions of 

Anthropology to Psychosomatic Medicine,” 

Vol. 60, Number 4, 1998. 

2004- Anthropology & Medicine 

Editorial Board 

2005- Harvard Review of Psychiatry 

Column Co-Editor, Cross-Cultural 

Psychiatry (2005-2008) 

Column Editor, Cultural Psychiatry (2008– 

2006- International Journal of Eating Disorders 

Honors and Prizes 

Editorial Board (2006– 

Associate Editor (2008– 

1983 Summa cum laude Harvard College 

1983 Phi Beta Kappa Harvard College 

1983 Captain Jonathan Fay 

Prize 

1985-1990 MacArthur Fellowship 

for the M.D./Ph.D. joint 

degree program in the 

social sciences 

1988 Fulbright IIE 

Scholarship 

1994 Dupont-Warren 

Fellowship 

Radcliffe College Radcliffe’s highest 

undergraduate honor 


Harvard Consolidated Department 

of Psychiatry 

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1997 Irene Pollin Fellowship 

in memory of Cherry 

Adler 

2008-09 Elizabeth S. and 

Richard M. Cashin 

Fellow 

Funding Information 

Past 


Radcliffe Institute for Advanced 

Study 

1982 Cooperative relationships among indigenous Fijian women 

Josephine L. Murray Travelling Fellowship 

PI ($1000) 

The goal of this ethnographic study was to investigate characteristics and antecedents for 

solidarity in women's groups in rural western Fiji. This field-based research was the basis for 

my senior honors thesis in anthropology. 

1984 Obstetric care-seeking in Cité Simone, Haiti 

Harvard Medical School student summer research funding 

PI ($1500)** 

The goal of this study was to conduct an ethnographic study of choice of labor and delivery 

location (home versus hospital) for Haitian women living in Cité Simone (now Cité Soleil), 

Haiti. I conducted interviews with traditional birth attendants and developed a survey for 

recently delivered women to examine the reasons for suboptimal use of hospital services. 

1985-1990 MacArthur Fellowship for the M.D./Ph.D. joint degree program in the social sciences 

M.D.-Ph.D. Joint degree program in Social Sciences (Eisenberg) 

Pre-doctoral Fellow 

The goal of this grant was to support joint doctoral degree training in anthropology and 

medicine. This pre-doctoral fellowship, awarded at the end of my HMS II year, supported 

tuition and stipend through completion of a Ph.D. in anthropology and HMS years III and 

IV. It also partially supported field research post graduation. 

1988 The Anthropology of Nutrition, Obesity, and Body Image in Fiji 

Fulbright IIE Scholarship 

PI ($20,000)** 

The major goal of the study was to examine body experience, body image, and selfhood 

relative to cultural context through an ethnographic study in Fiji. 

1994-1995 Post-partum Illness in Fiji 

Dupont-Warren Fellowship, Harvard Consolidated Department of Psychiatry 

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PI ($30,000)** 

The major goals of this study were to investigate embodied experience during pregnancy in 

ethnic Fijian women through ethnographic and narrative data collection and to document 

prevalence, risk correlates, explanatory models, manifestations of an indigenous 

sociosomatic postpartum illness, na tadoka ni vasucu. 

1996-1997 Fluoxetine and Relapse Prevention in Bulimia Nervosa 

Eli Lilly & Company 

Site PI ($50,771)** 

This study aim was to investigate efficacy of fluoxetine for relapse prevention in patients 

with bulimia nervosa, one of the few long-term studies of a pharmacologic agent for this 

illness. My role as MGH site PI was to recruit and implement the protocol with study 

participants at this site. 

1996-1999 Chinese and Southeast Asian Fellowship and Exchange Program 

Freeman Foundation (Kleinman) 

Academic Director 

This training program provided intensive year-long social sciences research training for 

post-doctoral fellows from Southeast Asia and China. As academic director, I played a key 

role in developing, organizing, and implementing the curriculum and served as a mentor to 

the fellows. 

1997-1998 Ethnicity, Help-seeking, and Access to Care for Disordered Eating: Follow-up from the 

First National Eating Disorders Screening Program 

Binge Pattern Eating Among Ethnic Fijian Women 

The Effects of Televised Media on Dietary Patterns, Disordered Eating, and Body 

Satisfaction among Ethnic Fijian Schoolgirls 

Irene Pollin Fellowship in memory of Cherry Adler, Harvard Medical School Career 

development award 

PI ($25,000) 

This fellowship supported work across related studies that investigated the impact of 

culture and ethnicity on disordered eating among three populations: ethnic Fijian 

adolescent girls, ethnic Fijian adult women, and U.S. college-age women attending a 

national educational and screening program for eating disorders. 

1998 Primary Care Symposium: Assessment and Management of Eating Disorders in the Primary 

Care Setting 

Eli Lilly & Company: Unrestricted educational grant 

Project director ($25,000) 

This unrestricted educational grant to the Harvard Eating Disorders Center supported a ½ 

day symposium for over 100 health professionals on management of eating disorders. As 

project director, I oversaw the program content development and implementation. 

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1999-2000 Acculturation and the Development of Disordered Eating in a Traditional Society 

William F. Milton Fund, Harvard Medical School Career development award 

PI ($13,400)** 

The major goal of this study was to examine the impact of rapid social transition associated 

with the introduction of mass media to Fiji on the emergence of eating disorders in ethnic 

Fijian adolescent and adult females; absent from the indigenous nosology, these disorders 

had not previously been reported in this population. As PI of this study, I designed and 

executed data collection, analysis, and preparation of results. 

1999-2003 Chinese and Southeast Asian Fellowship and Exchange Program 

Freeman Foundation; FRE96KLE1100 (Kleinman) 

Co-director 

This training program provided intensive year-long social sciences research training for 

post-doctoral fellows from Southeast Asia and China. As program co-director, I wrote the 

grant for funding, developed and organized the curriculum, and served as a mentor to the 

fellows. 

2001-2006 The Establishment of a New Collaborative Training Program in International Mental Health, 

located jointly in the Department of Social Medicine (DSM), Harvard Medical School 

(HMS), and the Department of Psychiatry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK); 

International Clinical, Operational and Health Services Research and Training Award 

(ICOHRTA) of the Fogarty International Center; TWOO5809 (Good) 

Core Faculty (2001-03) 

Contributing Faculty (2003-06) 

This program supported post-doctoral training for Southeast and East Asian mental health 

clinical investigators. I served as faculty. 

2001-2003 Is Mental Illness a Barrier to the Early Detection of Breast Cancer? 

Center of Excellence in Women’s Health, Harvard Medical School 

Career development award 

Co-PI ($13,863) 

The major goal of this mixed methods (narrative and statistical data) study was to examine 

the relation between mental illness and accessing appropriate preventive care for breast 

cancer. As co-PI, I supervised design of narrative data collection and analysis. 

2002-2004 Culture, the Media, and Eating Disorders: Developing a Culturally Sensitive Intervention 

for Fijian Youth 

Claneil Foundation: 

PI ($10,000) 

The major goal of this focus group discussion study was to examine community leaders’ 

and parents’ concerns about the impact of television on youth in Fiji and to explore their 

interest and ideas for understanding it further to develop preventive interventions, such as 

media literacy. As PI, I designed the study and conducted the interviews with 77 study 

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participants in Fiji; data were used to inform a subsequent epidemiologic study in this 

community. 

2003-2008 Social transition and risk for disordered eating 

NIMH: K23 MH068575 

Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award 

PI ($881,168) 

The major goal of this epidemiologic and narrative data-based study is to identify the 

impact of rapid economic and social transition on disordered eating and obesity-- as well 

as health risk behaviors such as suicide and violence—through survey data and over 300 

interviews in school-going ethnic Fijian adolescent girls (n=523). As PI of this mentored 

patient-oriented career development award, I designed and executed the study and am 

coordinating a cross-national team of consultants and collaborators to integrate 

epidemiologic, statistical, and narrative data analytic strategies. 

2005-2007 Latina Diabetics and Body Image 

2005-2008 

NCE to 

2009 

NIDDK: 5 R21 DK 069389-02 (Weitzman) 

Consultant 

The major goal of this study was to examine body image and self-care behaviors related to 

diabetes and other obesity related diseases in Latina women. My role was to consult on 

qualitative methods. 

How does culture make a difference? 

Russell Sage Foundation (Good) 

MGH Site PI 

The primary aim of this qualitative data based study is to examine how US-based 

Community Health Clinics (CHC’s) and clinical services respond to cultural difference, 

ethnicity, and citizenship status in the context of changing political ideologies and new 

forms of health care financing in the US and to contrast patient and clinician experience in 

culture-specific and generic health services. Having consulted during the design phase of 

the study, I became MGH site PI in 2009. 

2005-2009 Residential Treatment for Adolescents and Adults with Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa 

Klarman Family Foundation (Delinsky) 

Co-PI 

This study examined predictors for residential treatment outcomes for anorexia nervosa 

and bulimia nervosa. I was the senior supervisor for Dr. Delinsky’s work on this research, 

which was begun during her fellowship training. 

2007-2008 Association Between Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Bulimia Nervosa in an 

Eating Disorders Clinic 

Hilda & Preston Davis Foundation (Surman) 

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Co-Investigator 

The major goal of this study was to examine prevalence of co-morbid ADHD with bulimia 

nervosa in a clinical population and characterize clinical correlates of the co-morbid 

condition. As co-investigator, I consulted on assessment of bulimia nervosa and 

epidemiologic design. 

2007-2008 Training the Next Generation in Culture and Mental Health: Curricula for Psychiatry 

NY State DOH Cultural Competency Fund; American Psychiatric Association 

SAMHSA/APA grant (Trujillo; Hansen) 

Collaborating Investigator 

The major goal of this open-ended, semi-structured interview study was to examine 

successful strategies for and barriers to teaching psychiatry residents how to effectively 

and sensitively care for diverse populations of patients. As collaborating investigator, I 

designed the study protocol, consulted on qualitative data analysis, and mentored Dr. 

Helena Hansen, the SAMHSA/APA grant recipient. 

2008-2009 Navigating Body, Self, and Society in Adolescence 

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study/ Fellowship 

PI ($75,000) 

This fellowship supported work on a solo-authored book presenting integrated clinical, 

ethnographic, and epidemiologic analytic perspectives on the social context of prevalent 

suicide and eating pathology among ethnic Fijian adolescent girls in the setting of rapid 

economic change. 

2009-2010 The Neurobiology of Appetite Regulation in Anorexia Nervosa 

Current 

2005-2007 

2008-2010 

Harvard Catalyst Pilot Grant (Lawson and Holsen) 

Significant contributor 

The major goal of this study is to examine appetite regulation in anorexia nervosa. 

Klarman McLean/MGH Fellowship in Eating Disorders 

Klarman Family Foundation 

Site Director (MGH; $40,000 total to the MGH site) 

This funding supports post-doctoral fellowship training for research and clinical work in 

the field of eating disorders. It is currently in its second 2-year cycle. I developed the 

curriculum and proposal for this fellowship in collaboration with colleagues at McLean 

Hospital, oversee clinical supervision and training for fellowship activities at MGH, and 

have primary responsibility for fellows' research training. 

2006-2011 Training Program in International Mental Health 

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2007-2008 

(with NCE 

to 2010) 

International Clinical, Operational and Health Services Research and Training Award 

(ICOHRTA) of the Fogarty International Center; TWOO5809 (Good) 

Contributing Faculty (2006-09) 

Core Faculty (2009-2011) 

This program supports post-doctoral training for Southeast and East Asian mental health 

clinical investigators. I serve currently as core faculty. 

Social transition and risk for disordered eating 

Harvard University Research Enabling Grant/ Provost career development award 

PI ($65,279) 

This funding has supplemented the above-mentioned study funding, supported travel for 

my family so that I could continue to care for my three—then, pre-school and primary 

school-age—children during an extended period of field research in rural Fiji, and supports 

continued narrative and quantitative data analyses for a study on social antecedents of 

suicide and eating pathology in Fiji. 

2008-2013 Reducing Depressive Symptoms in Physically Ill Youth 

1 R01 MH77770-01A2 (Szigethy) 

Consultant 

The major goal of this study is to examine treatment outcome of a CBT approach to 

reducing depressive symptoms in children with IBD. My role is to consult on design and 

analysis for a qualitative data component addressing illness narratives of the participants. 

2010 Global Equity Option in Scholarship Abroad Program (GEO-Scholars Program) 

Harvard President's Innovation Fund for International Experiences (PIFIE): Planning Grant 

(Farmer) 

Supporting Faculty 

The goal of this planning grant is to develop the GEO-Scholars Program, which is a 

proposed undergraduate, semester-long program that fills a curricular gap by linking 

didactic coursework to experiential learning in the context of global health care delivery. 

My role is to collaborate in proposal development and, specifically, in articulation of the 

pedagogical approach for this program, which is to promote intellectual engagement with 

this topic (that is not easily achieved with a conventional didactics-only approach) by 

locating challenges inherent to overcoming global health inequities in a robust, transdisciplinary 

theoretical, and experiential framework. 

2010-2011 Pilot Feasibility Project in Nutritional Research; Harvard Clinical Nutrition Research 

Center The Genetics of Appetite-regulating Hormones in Anorexia Nervosa 

P30-DK040561 (Walker) 

Significant Contributor 

This study explores the genetics of appetite regulating hormones in anorexia nervosa. My 

role is to provide clinical expertise on eating disorders to inform study design and 

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interpretation of findings. 

2010-2015 Engaging Latino Families in Eating Disorders Treatment 

K23 MH087954-01A1 (Reyes) 

Consultant 

The goal of this study is to develop and evaluate a family-based intervention to augment 

cognitive behavioral treatment of eating disorders in Latino adults. My role will be to 

advise on the cultural adaptation of study materials. 

** Indicates an approximate or estimated figure because records are unavailable. NCE=no cost extension. 

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Report of Local Teaching and Training 

Teaching of Students in Courses 

Prior to start of current Harvard appointment 

1986 Science A-27 (Sound & Hearing) Harvard College 

Undergraduate students Teaching Fellow: Weekly sessions for one 

semester 

1987 Social Analysis 28 (“Culture, Illness and 

Healing”) 

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Undergraduate students Teaching Fellow: Weekly sessions for one 

semester 

1989-90 Social Analysis 28 (“Culture, Illness and 

Healing”) 


Undergraduate students Head Teaching Fellow: Supervised teaching 

fellows for a large lecture course; weekly 

sessions for one semester 

1992-1994 Social Analysis 28 (“Culture, Illness and 

Healing”) 

Harvard College: 

Undergraduate students 1-2 lectures/year 

1993 Sociology 162 (“Medical Sociology”) Harvard College 

Undergraduate students 1 lecture 

During current Harvard appointment 

1995-1996 Senior tutorial and thesis advisor in 

anthropology (Elizabeth Mayer) 


Undergraduate (senior honors) student Senior tutorial/September-March 

1995-1998 Social Analysis 28 (“Culture, Illness and Harvard College 

2002, 2010 

Healing”) 

Undergraduate students 1-2 lectures/year 

1995 Social Medicine 720 (“Women, Health and 

Medicine”) 


1st and 2nd year medical students Led one 2-hour seminar 

1996-2000, 

2002, 2004 

Nutrition 201b 

Harvard School of Public Health: 

HSPH students 1 lecture/year 

1998-2000 Matina S. Horner Summer Research Harvard Eating Disorders Center

1999, 2003- 

2004 

Fellowship 

Undergraduate and graduate students Developed summer research fellowship 

program for student research in the field of 

eating disorders 

Mentored eight students on research 

projects and led a weekly seminar on 

clinical and research issues in the field of 

eating disorders (summers) 

Intensive Elective Clerkship in Medical 

Anthropology 

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Medical and dental students 1 lecture/ year 

1999-2003 Psychiatry 700 Harvard Medical School 

Pre-clinical medical students 1-2 lectures/year 

2000-2002 Doctoral thesis reader for Eileen Anderson- 

Fye 

2002 M.D. Honors thesis review committee for 

Larissa Meyer 

2003-2004, 

2006, 2008– 

Epidemiologic Investigation of Social & 

Environmental Risks for Psychiatric 

Disorders 

Harvard Graduate School of Education: 

Thesis examiner for Ed.D. candidate 


Thesis reader for M.D. honors candidate 

Harvard School of Public Health 

1 lecture/year 

2004 HST 140/930 Harvard Medical School 

2 nd year medical students 1 lecture 

2005 Introduction to Psychiatric Anthropology Harvard College 

Undergraduate students 1 lecture: "The impact of modernization on 

risk for eating disorders: The view from Fiji" 

2007– Introduction to Social Medicine 750 Harvard Medical School 

1 st year medical and dental students 1 lecture/year: "Global Mental Health" 

2007 Psychopathology and Introduction to 

Clinical Psychiatry 


2 nd year medical and dental students 1 lecture: "Eating Disorders" 

2007 Psychology Doctoral Program La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia) 

Natasha Hepworth (PhD candidate in 

psychology) 

Doctoral thesis reader 

2008 MD Honors in a Special Field Harvard Medical School

Naana Jumah (HMS IV student) Reader/examiner for: “Acculturation, body 

image, and chronic disease: A study of urban 

Ghanaian women” 

2009 Principal Clinical Experience (PCE) Harvard Medical School 

3rd year medical students Invited case discussant: Complex patient 

who presented to the emergency ward with 

multiple medical problems and anorexia 

nervosa. 

2009- Societies of the World 25: 

Health, Culture, Community: Case Studies in 

Global Health 

Undergraduate students (approx 220) + 

graduate students (6) 

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2010 Psychology Doctoral Program Tufts University 

Twice weekly lectures or discussions for 

semester long course; co-taught with 

Professors Arthur Kleinman, Paul Farmer, 

and Salmaan Keshavjee 

Kristen Fay (PhD candidate in psychology) Doctoral thesis committee 

2010 Maternal and Child Health Seminar Harvard School of Public Health 

Graduate students (approximately 25) 1 lecture: "Globalization and transnational 

risk for eating disorders: Body, self, and 

society in Fiji after television" 

Formal Teaching of Residents, Clinical Fellows and Research Fellows (post-docs) 

During current Harvard appointment 

1996-2003 Seminar in medical anthropology theory 

and practice 

Department of Social Medicine, Harvard 


Postdoctoral fellows Developed content, taught, and/or 

supervised weekly seminar for academic 

year 

1996-2003 Writing seminar for publishing on social 

sciences health research 



Postdoctoral fellows Supervised and/or led weekly writing 

seminar for academic year 

2000 Anorexia nervosa and hepatitis Residents’ Report, Department of Medicine, 


Medicine residents Case discussant (1 session) 

2002 Cross-cultural Issues in Psychiatry Massachusetts General Hospital

PGY-2 psychiatry residents 5 sessions (Developed, directed, and co-led 

seminar) 

2002–2008 Cultural Issues in Psychiatry Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean 

Hospital 

PGY-3 psychiatry residents Taught 5-6 session seminar annually 

2005 Social Environment, the Mass Media, and 

Eating Disorders [In: Psychiatry Residents’ 

Seminar] 

2005-2006 

2009 

Psychiatry residents 1 lecture 

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Cambridge Health Alliance 

Balancing Career & Family Seminar Massachusetts General Hospital 

Psychiatry residents and psychology interns 1 presentation/year 

2006 Is Psychiatric Diagnosis in the Eye of the 

Beholder?: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on 

Eating Disorders [In: International Mental 

Health Seminar Series] 

Post-doctoral fellows 1 lecture 

2006 Eating Disorders Case [In: Inpatient 

Psychiatry Service Med-Psych Conference] 




Psychiatry residents 1 session as case discussant 

2006-2008 Social Environment, the Mass Media, and 

Eating Disorders: The View from Fiji [In: 

Cross-cultural Psychiatry Seminar 

PGY-3 psychiatry residents 1 lecture/year 

Longwood Psychiatry Residency Program; 

2006-2007 Issues in Cross-cultural Psychiatry IMPACT/IMPACTO Program/ 


International psychiatry trainees and faculty 1 lecture every 4 months 

2006-2008 Eating disorders: Assessment and Therapies 

[In: Psychology Internship Proseminar] 

Psychology interns 1 lecture/ year 

2007-2008 Balancing Career and Family Life [In: 

Psychiatry Department Junior Faculty 

Career Development Lunch Meeting] 



Psychiatry residents 1 presentation/ year 

2007 Economic change, social opportunity, and 

suicide in Fiji: A mental health crisis [In: 

International Mental Health Seminar Series] 

Post-doctoral fellows 1 lecture 


Medical School

Clinical Supervisory and Training Responsibilities 

1992-1995; 

2008 

Clinical clerkship in psychiatry (3rd and 4th 

year medical students); HMS (at 

Massachusetts General Hospital) 

1996-2005 Psychotherapy and training supervisor for 

psychiatry residents/ Department of 

Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital 

2001– Supervise trainees and professional staff at 

weekly case conference on eating disorders/ 

Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts 


2005-07; 

2008– 

Supervise clinical and research fellow in 

eating disorders assessment and 

management/ Department of Psychiatry, 


2007– Director (2007-09) and supervisor (2007present), 

eating disorders module in PGY III 

Psychopharmacology Seminar/ Department 

of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General 

Hospital 

20 

1 hour bimonthly (didactic seminar) through 

1995; 1 hour in 2008 

Variable hours/year 

1 hour weekly 

2 hours/week 

Organize didactic and supervisory sessions 

for 2 two-week modules/year and supervise 

2-4 PGY III residents/year on diagnostic 

evaluation 

Formally Supervised Trainees 

1996-1997 Dr. Ma Guansheng (master degree in medicine)/ Head Research Associate, Dept. of 

School Nutrition, Institute of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, Beijing* 

Supervised one year research fellowship in social sciences and medicine (Freeman 

Fellowship) 

1996-1997 Sing Lee, M.B.B.S./ Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Psychiatry, The Chinese University of Hong 

Kong; Director, Hong Kong Mood Disorders Center 

Supervised one year post-doctoral research fellowship in social sciences and medicine 

(Freeman Fellowship) 

1996-1997 Manote Lotrakul, M.D./ Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, Mahidol University, Bangkok* 



1996 Tonny Sadjimin, MPH, MSc, PhD, DSAK/ (Deceased) Professor, Department of Child 

Health, University of Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 

Supervised 1/2 year postdoctoral research fellowship in social sciences and medicine 


1996-1997 Sri Suparyati Soenarto, M.D./ Professor and Chair, Department of Child Health in the 

Faculty of Medicine, University of Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Supervised ½ year post-doctoral research fellowship in social sciences and medicine 


1997-1998 Quentin Eichbaum, M.D. / Professional staff at MGH 

1997-1998 

1997-1998 

1997-1998 

Supervisor for Freeman Summer Travel Grant Program to Asia project 

Xu Yifeng, B.M., M.Sc. (Medicine)/ Associate Director, Shanghai Mental Health Center, 

Professor of Psychiatry, Shanghai Medical School of Fudan University, Shanghai, China* 


Fellowship) 

Yan Fei, M.D., M.P.H./ Professor and Deputy Director of the Department of Social 

Medicine, Shanghai Medical University, School of Public Health of Fudan University 



Subandi, Ph.D./ Associate Professor and Dean of Research and International 

Collaborations, Faculty of Psychology, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 


Fellowship) 

1997-1998 Dr. Tana Nilchaikovit/ Vice Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Director of the 

Consultation-Liaison Service, Department of Psychiatry, Ramathibodi Hospital, Bangkok, 

Thailand* 

1997-1999 

1998 

1998-1999 

1998-1999 



S. Bryn Austin, Sc.D., Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School 

Supervised summer research resulting in a publication; research mentorship; doctoral 

thesis committee 

Rebecca Burwell, M.Phil., Ph.D./ Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, 

Westfield State College 

Supervised summer field research; career mentorship resulting in her co-authorship of 

three publications 

Dr. Ji Jianlin/ Professor of Psychiatry and Chair, Department of Psychological Medicine, 

Zhonh-Shan Hospital of the Shanghai Medical School, Fudan University, Shanghai, 

China* 


(Freeman Fellowship) resulting in a published manuscript presenting an analysis of 

previously unpublished suicide data from China 

Tridjoko Hadianto, DTM&H, MKes./ Faculty of Medicine, Gadjah Mada University, 

Yogyakarta, Indonesia* 

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1998-1999 Rujinart Adthasit, B.Sc., M.A./ Head of herbal medicine and Thai traditional medicine in 

community sector, Office of Primary Health Care, Permanent Secretary Office, Ministry of 

Public Health, Thailand* 

1998-1999 He Yanling, M.D./ Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Shanghai Second 

Medical University, Shanghai, China* 



1999-2000 Yang Huaiyu, M.D./ PGY IV/Chief Resident in Psychiatry, Mass. General Hospital, 

Boston, MA* 



1999-2000 Dr. Sheng Li/ Faculty, Institute of Mental Health, Beijing Medical University, Beijing, 

China* 



1999-2000 Dominic Li, MBChB (Hons), MRCPsych/ Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Chinese 

University of Hong Kong* 



2000-2002 Eileen Anderson-Fye, Ed.D./ Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Associate Director, 

Schubert Center for Child Development, Case Western Reserve University 

2001 

(3 months) 

Doctoral thesis reader; supervised summer research internship; mentorship resulted in 

several publications including critical reviews of the impact of culture on eating disorders 

and contributed to receipt of the Condon Award from the Society for Psychological 

Anthropology (for a paper based on her doctoral thesis research) 

Lisa Rubin, Ph.D./ Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of Clinical Training, 

Department of Psychology, New School for Social Research, New York, NY 

Supervised summer research internship resulting in one publication in a scientific journal 

based on qualitative research. 

2001-2002 Dr. Fan Jiang/ Assistant Director, Department of Administration, Chinese Medical 

Association, China* 



2001-2002 Dr. Ming Li/ Director, Suzhou Psychiatric Hospital, China 



2001-2002 Laksono Trisnantoro, M.Sc., M.D., Ph.D./ Professor and Director, Center for Health 

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Service Management, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia 



2001-2002 Shuiyuan Xiao, M.D., Ph.D./ Vice Dean, School of Public Health; Director, Department of 

Social Medicine, Hunan Medical University, China* 



2002-2003 Bin Xie, M.D./ Chief Physician at the Shanghai Mental Health Center; Professor of 

Psychiatry at Shanghai Second Medical University* 



2002-2003 Carla Marchira, M.D./ Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Gadjah 

Mada Medical School, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 

2002-2003 



Mahar Agusno, M.D./ Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at Gadjah Mada 

Medical School, and Deputy Director of the Mental In-patient Installation at Sardjito 




2002– Jennifer J. Thomas, Ph.D./ Mclean/MGH Klarman Eating Disorders [Post-Doctoral] 

Fellow 2008-2010 

2002 (3 months), supervised summer research internship; 2002-present, ongoing 

mentorship; 

2008-present, fellowship mentor and supervisor; mentorship has resulted in her 

contributions to the DSM-5 Eating Disorders Work Group, co-authorship of 14 in print/in 

press manuscripts and additional manuscripts in preparation, presenting her research at 

several scientific meetings, and submitting a proposal for an NIMH K23 award (for which 

I will serve as co-mentor) 

2003-2004 Adair Look, M.D./ Staff psychiatrist, Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center* 

2003-2004 

2008- 

Janssen Research Scholar in Severe Mental Illness Program, Primary mentor; resulted in her 

publication of a review chapter in a major medical textbook (Scholarship sponsored by 

Janssen Pharmaceuticals) 

Amy Saltzman/ M.D., Ph.D. student, Harvard Medical School (HMS III; doctoral student 

in the Harvard GSAS Department of Anthropology) 

2003, supervised summer research internship; 2004, supervised thesis fieldwork; her senior 

thesis was awarded the Princeton University Department of Anthropology Senior Thesis First 

Prize as well as the Society for Medical Anthropology W.H.R. Rivers Prize in 2005; 

Currently M.D.-Ph.D. Program advisor 

2004- Kristen Fay/ Doctoral student, Department of Psychology, Tufts University 

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Supervised research assistantship; [currently member of doctoral thesis committee as noted 

elsewhere]; continued mentorship has resulted in 5 co-authored publications, presentations 

at scientific meetings, and her receipt of an NIMH/AED Student/Early Career Investigator 

Travel Fellowship and the Horton-Hallowell fellowship for graduate study from Wellesley 

College 

2005-2007 Sherrie Delinsky, Ph.D./ Licensed Clinical Psychologist; McLean Hospital 

Supervised fellowship training; continued mentorship has resulted in her presenting her 

research at international scientific meetings and in 6 co-authored publications 

2006– Asenaca Bainivualiku/ University of Victoria, Master’s degree candidate 

Master’s thesis committee; research mentor; co-authorship of 6 publications. 

2005– Lauren Richards/ Boston University, Department of Psychology, Doctoral degree 

candidate 

Research mentorship has resulted in co-authorship of five publications and in her receipt of 

an NIMH/AED Student/Early Career Investigator Travel Fellowship 

2007–2009 Aliyah Shivji/ Student, Harvard School of Dental Medicine 

Mentored field research in Fiji 

2008– J.J. Thompson-McCormick/ Medical Student, University of Southampton 

Mentored independent study: “Social risk correlates of overweight in ethnic Fijian 

adolescent girls”; he is first author on an in press manuscript we co-authored for this work. 

2008–2009 Amy Heberle/ Research assistant, MGH 

Mentored research in the Radcliffe Research Partners Program 

2008 - Jessica Agnew-Blais/ Harvard School of Public Health, doctoral candidate 

Mentored research resulting in poster presentation at 2010 APPA, two co-authored 

manuscripts in press, and several manuscripts in preparation. 

2009- April Opoliner/ Harvard School of Public Health, doctoral candidate 

Supervised independent study on suicide and social change (2009-); mentored research 

resulting in two co-authored manuscripts in preparation. 

* Reflects most recently updated information about title and position. 

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Formal Teaching of Peers (e.g., CME and other continuing education courses) 

Those presentations below sponsored by outside entities are so noted and the sponsors are identified. 

1996 National Eating Disorders Screening Program Single presentation 

Treatment of Obesity and Eating Disorders, New 

England Deaconess Hospital 

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Boston 

1997 Diagnosis and Management of Eating Disorders Single presentation 

Women and a Lifetime of Fitness, Harvard College Cambridge, MA 

1997-2006 Eating Disorders: Diagnosis and Management Single presentation/year 

Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Update and Board 

Review, Massachusetts General Hospital Department 

of Psychiatry 

1997-2008 Psychopharmacologic Management of Eating 

Disorders 

Psychopharmacology, Massachusetts General Hospital 

Department of Psychiatry 

1998 The Role of Psychopharmacology in the Management 

of Bulimia 

Effective Treatment for Bulimia Nervosa, McLean 

Hospital 

Boston, MA 

Single presentation/year 

Boston 

Single presentation 

Belmont 

1998 The Role of the Psychopharmacologist Single presentation 

Eating Disorders: Clinical Challenges and 

Connections, The Cambridge Hospital Department of 

Psychiatry 

Cambridge 

2000 Eating Disorders Workshop leader 

Primary Care of Women, Massachusetts General 

Hospital 

Boston 

2001 Role of Eating disorders in Obesity Management Workshop leader 

Comprehensive Strategies for the Management of 

Obesity, Harvard Medical School 

Cambridge, MA 

2002 Eating Disorders in Men and Women Single presentation 

The X and Y: Current Topics in Gender-Specific 

Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/ Harvard 


2003 Complementary and Alternative Therapy for Weight 

Reduction 

Natural Remedies for Psychiatric Disorders: 

Considering the Alternatives, Massachusetts General 

Boston 

Single presentation 

Boston

Hospital/ Harvard Medical School 

2007 Eating Disorders Single presentation 

Pri-Med East Conference and Exhibition: Current 

Clinical Issues in Primary Care, Harvard Medical 

School 

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Boston 

2008 Treatment of Eating Disorders Single presentation 

Psychopharmacology Updates: A Comprehensive 

Review of Evidence-Based Approaches, Mt. Sinai 

School of Medicine and Massachusetts General 

Hospital Psychiatry Academy (Reed Medical 

Education) 

New York, NY 

Local Invited Presentations 


1992 Dissociation and possession in cross-cultural context/ Lecture 

Psychosomatic Conference, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital 

1992 Body image and eating disorders: A cross-cultural perspective/ Lecture 


1992 Nurturing and negligence: Working on others' bodies in Fiji/ Seminar presentation 

Medical Anthropology Friday morning seminar, Harvard Medical School 

1995 The Cultural Mediation of Disordered Eating/ Grand rounds 

Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital 

1996 Postpartum Mood Disorders in Fiji/ Lecture 

Psychiatric Epidemiology Colloquium; Harvard School of Public Health 

1998 Psychopharmacologic management 

Harvard Eating Disorders Center Primary Care Symposium: Detection and management of 

eating disorders in the primary care setting; Massachusetts General Hospital (Eli Lilly & Co) 

1998 Psychopharmacology of Eating Disorders/ Lecture 

Advanced Psychopharmacology Seminar, The Cambridge Health Alliance 

1999 Television, Social Change, and Eating Disorders: The View from Fiji/ Grand rounds 

Harvard/Longwood Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School 

1999 The Cultural Context of Eating Disorders in Fiji/ Lecture 

Center for Psychoanalytic Studies; Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General 

Hospital

1999 Television, Social Change, and Eating Disorders in Fiji/ Lecture 

Psychopharmacology Conference Series: Women’s Health and Psychiatry, Massachusetts 


2000 Eating disorders, cultural and ethnic considerations/ Lecture 

Pediatric Endocrine Didactic Conference, Massachusetts General Hospital 

2000 Culture, the Media and Eating Disorders: The View from Fiji/ Lecture 

Program in Urban Health Seminar Series, Harvard Medical School 

2001 Evaluation and management of eating disorders in primary care settings/ Lecture 

An Integrated Approach to Eating and Weight Disorders: A Primer; Symposium at 

Massachusetts General Hospital (Co-sponsored by the MGH Weight Center, the 

Neuroendocrine Unit at MGH, and the Harvard Eating Disorders Center) 

2001 Chief of Service Rounds Case Discussant 

Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital 

2001 Postpartum Illness in Fiji: A Sociosomatic Perspective 

In: Psychopathology among Women: A Cross-Cultural Perspective/ Lecture 

Colloquium of the Harvard Training Program in Psychiatric Epidemiology and 

Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health 

2001 “Culture” in Mental Health Services Research: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges 

In: International Mental Health Session/ Discussant 

Conference of the NIMH Post-doctoral Fellows of the NIMH Training Program in Culture 

and Mental Health Services Research; Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical 

School (NIMH/HMS) 

2001 Eating disorders: Evaluation and management/ Grand rounds 

Gastrointestinal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital 

2002 Eating disorders in children and adults/ Lecture 

Partners Physicians Day; Boston, MA (Partners Healthcare) 

2002 Culture, the Media, and Eating Disorders: The View from Fiji/ Grand rounds 

Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Hospital 

2002 Case Conference Discussant 

Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital 

2002 Eating Disorders/ Lecture 

Department of Psychiatry, Addictions Services staff meeting, Massachusetts General Hospital 

2003 Social transition, cultural change and eating disorders: The view from Fiji/ Lecture 

Harvard Children’s Initiative, Children’s Global Mental Health Working Group lecture 

series; Cambridge, MA (HMS) 

2003 Social Transition, Television, and Eating Disorders: The View from Fiji/ Lecture 

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Psychopharmacology Spring Lecture Series, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts 


2003 Management of eating disorders/ Grand rounds 

Medical Grand Rounds; Harvard University Health Services 

2003 Culture, the Media, and Eating Disorders: The View from Fiji/ Lecture 

Marguerite A. Conrad Seminar Day; McLean Hospital 

2004 The role of ethnicity and culture in the development of eating disorders/ Discussant 


2004 Eating Disorders in Adults/ Lecture 

Partners Physician Day; Boston (Partners HealthCare) 

2004 Television, Social Change, and Eating and Weight Disorders: The View from Fiji/ Lecture 

Longwood Area Diabetes/Metabolism Research Seminar Series, Harvard Medical School 

2004 Social change, the media, and body image: The view from Fiji/ Lecture 

Women, Gender, and Health; Harvard School of Public Health 

2005 Challenging clinical situations/ Lecture 

Behavioral Medicine & Eating Disorders In-service; Newton-Wellesley Hospital 

2005 Anorexia Nervosa: Thinspiration/ Discussant 

Psychosomatic Conference; Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital 

2006 Social Environment, the Mass Media, and Eating Disorders: The View from Fiji/ Lecture 

Student Psychiatry Interest Group, Harvard Medical School 

2006 Is Psychiatric Diagnosis in the Eye of the Beholder?: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Eating 

Disorders/ Lecture 

Social Medicine Commons, Harvard Medical School 

2006 Social Change and Youth Health: The View from Fiji 

Medical Anthropology Seminar, Harvard Medical School 

2006-2007 Eating Disorders in College Students/ Lecture (1/year) 

Senior Common Room, Currier House, Harvard College 

2007 Eating disorders: Evaluation and management of the Adult Patient/ Grand rounds 

Gastrointestinal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital 

2007 Social Change, Eating Disorders, and Youth Risk Behaviors: The View from Fiji/ Grand 

rounds 

McLean Hospital 

2008 Discussion of Race and Female Body Image/ Discussant 

Conference on “Race and Female Body Image” (The Harvard Foundation) 

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2008 Eating Disorders: Evaluation and Management of the Adult Patient/ Grand rounds 

Department of Medicine, Mount Auburn Hospital 

2009 Navigating Body, Self, and Society across Adolescence: A Mental Health Crisis in Fiji/ 

Public lecture 

Fellows’ Presentation Series, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study 

2009 Developments in Psychiatric Nosology: Lessons from DSM-5 in Progress/ Lecture 

Colloquium of the Harvard Training Program in Psychiatric Epidemiology and 

Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health (Harvard Institute of Psychiatric 

Epidemiology and Genetics) 

2009 DSM-5 in process: Lessons from the Neurocognitive and Eating Disorders Workgroups/ 

Grand rounds [co-presented with Deborah Blacker, M.D., Sc.D.] 

Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital 

2010 New conceptual frames for incorporating culture into DSM-5/ Seminar presentation 

"The New Cultural Psychiatry and DSM V," [Harvard Medical Anthropology] Friday 

Morning Seminar Workshop 

2010 The Role of Education and Training in Addressing Global Health Challenges/Panelist 

Harvard Initiative for Global Health Annual Leadership Meeting, Harvard University 

2010 "Eating pathology: Evidence of social and cultural mediation of phenomenology and risk"/ 

Lecture 

Psychiatric Genetics and Translational Research Seminar, Massachusetts General Hospital 

2010 "A career perspective on global mental health"/ Presentation 

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF); Harvard Institute for Global Health 

Report of Regional, National and International Invited Teaching and 

Presentations 

Invited Presentations and Courses 


Regional 

1995 Ethical and Practical Issues in Research with Adolescents Who Have Eating Disorders/ Comoderator 

for panel discussion 

Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R): "Ethical and Policy Issues in 

Research with Children and Adolescents," Boston 

1996 National Eating Disorders Screening Program/Lecture presentation 

Boston Researchers on Eating Disorders, Boston 

1997 The Cultural Mediation of Disordered Eating/Lecture 

Department of Psychology, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 

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1998 Culture, Ethnicity, and Disordered Eating/Lecture 

Eastern Psychological Association: "Issues in the Treatment of Anorexia and Bulimia 

Nervosa," Boston, MA 

1999 Culture, Acculturation, Body Image and Disordered Eating: The View from Fiji/Lecture 

Massachusetts Psychiatric Society, Committee on Women; Massachusetts Psychiatric 

Society; Waltham, MA 

1999 The Introduction of Television and Rapid Social Change in Fiji: The Impact on Prevalence of 

Eating Disorders Symptoms/Lecture 

Boston Researchers on Eating Disorders; Boston 

2000 Culture, the Media and Eating Disorders: The View from Fiji/ Plenary lecture 

Massachusetts Dietetic Association Fall Conference; Framingham, MA 

2001 Psychopharmacology of Eating Disorders in Primary Care/ Symposium lecture 

Massachusetts Medical Society; Waltham, MA 

2001 Postpartum Illness in Fiji: A Sociosomatic Perspective/ Lecture 

University of Connecticut; Storrs, CT 

2002 Eating disorders: Evaluation and management of the adult patient/ Lecture 

Passamaquoddy Indian Township Tribal Health Center (via videoconference from Mass. 

General Hospital); Indian Township Reservation, Maine 

2003 Social Change, Television, and Eating Disorders: The View from Fiji/ Lecture 

Positive Youth Development and Mental Health in the Multi-Cultural Society; Tufts New 

England Medical Center/ Boston lecture series of Norwegian professionals organized by 

the Norwegian Council of Mental Health, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, the 

Norwegian Trade Council’s Department in Boston 

2005 What, When, and How am I Eating?: Some Weighty Issues and Answers/ Grand rounds 

Women and Infants’ Hospital, Providence, RI 


Women and Infants’ Hospital; Providence, RI 


Mental Health Services, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA 

2006 Socio-cultural issues in Eating Disorders/ Symposium lecture 

Hilda & Preston Davis Foundation; Greenwich, CT 

2008 Cultural diversity identified with the EDE-Q in an ethnic Fijian population/ Lecture 

Eating Disorders Research Working Group Meeting (Boston-based research programs in 

eating disorders); Boston, MA 

2010 Social and Cultural Mediation of Eating Pathology: An Update from Fiji 

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Boston University Clinical Psychology Department 2010 Spring Semester Colloquium 

Series; Boston, MA 

2010 Globalization as a mental health hazard: The view from Fiji/ Lecture 

Global Health Ethics, Politics, and Economics Seminar Series; Whitney and Betty 

MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University; New Haven, CT 

National 

1990 Nurturing and negligence: Working on others' bodies in Fiji/ Scientific paper (abstract) 

American Ethnological Society 112th Annual Spring Meeting, Atlanta 

1995 Pregnant bodies and interpersonal boundaries in Fiji/ Scientific paper (abstract) 

American Anthropological Association 94th Annual Meeting, Washington DC 

1996 Culture and resilience to eating disorders in Fiji/ Symposium paper presentation in 

"Resilience and recovery with eating disorders" (abstract) 

American Psychiatric Association 149th Annual Meeting, New York 

1997 A national screening program for eating disorders: Ethnicity, gender and reported symptoms/ 

Symposium paper presentation in: "Women's mental health in the 1990s: Toward an 

integrated approach" (abstract) 

American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, San Diego (Eli Lilly and Company) 

1997 Social support as a risk modulator of postpartum mood disturbance in Fiji/ Symposium paper 

presentation in: "Women's mental health in the 1990s: Toward an integrated approach" 

(abstract) 

American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, San Diego (Eli Lilly and Company) 

1997 Diagnosis and Management of Eating Disorders/ Symposium lecture 

"Psychiatric Disorders Across the Life Cycle of Women: Toward Enhanced Recognition and 

Treatment," Las Vegas, NV (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas; Eli 

Lilly and Company) 

1997 Cultural Mediation of Postpartum Illness in Fiji/ Plenary lecture 

American Psychopathological Association Annual Meeting; New York, NY 

2000 Eating Disorders: Evaluation and Management/ Lecture 

The Alabama Regional Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Birmingham, AL (Eli 

Lilly and Company 

2001 Detection and Management of Eating Disorders in Primary Care/ Lecture 

NPACE Newport National Women’s Health Care Conference; Newport, RI 

2001 The association of television exposure with disordered eating among ethnic Fijian 

adolescent girls/ Symposium paper presentation in "Feeding, eating, and eating disorders: 

The development of disordered eating" (abstract) 

American Psychiatric Association 2001 Annual Meeting, New Orleans 

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2003 Binge eating in Fiji, a small-scale indigenous society/ Scientific and clinical report session 

paper presentation (abstract) 

American Psychiatric Association 2003 Annual Meeting, San Francisco 

2003 Social transition, television, and disordered eating: The view from Fiji/ Session Chair and 

Session paper presentation: Globalization, gender, and well-being in adolescents (abstract) 

American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago 

2003 Social transition and eating disorders: A proposed approach to understanding health 

disparities (General session presentation) 

Cultural Diversity and Health Care Institutions Conference, 

New York, NY (Russell Sage Foundation) 

2003 Culture, the Media, and Eating Disorders: The View from Fiji/ General session 

presentation 

National Eating Disorders Association Conference; Chicago, IL 

2004 Management of eating disorders/ Expert discussant 

Meet the Experts Booth at American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, New York, 

NY (Primedia Healthcare) 

2004 Television, Social Change, and Eating Disorders: The View from Fiji/ Grand rounds 

Tulane University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Neurology; New 

Orleans, LA 

2005 What, When, and How Am I Eating?: Some Weighty Issues and Answers/ General session 

lecture 

North American Society of Psychosocial OB-GYN Annual Meeting; Coronado, California 

2005 Television, Body Image and Eating Disorders: The View from Fiji/ F. Jackson Stoddard 

Memorial Lecture 

Milwaukee Gynecological Society; Milwaukee, WI 

2005 Eating Disorders: Evaluation and Management of the Adult Patient/ Grand rounds 

Columbia - St. Mary’s Hospital, OB-GYN Department; Milwaukee, WI 

2005 Social Environment, the Mass Media, and Eating Disorders: The View from Fiji/ Grand 

rounds 

University of Florida, Department of Psychiatry; Gainesville, FL 

2005 Eating Disorders: Evaluation and Management of the Adult Patient/ General session 

lecture 

“A Day in the Gut XIV” at Montefiore Medical Center, New York, NY 

2006 Culture, media, and eating disorders in Fiji/ Lecture delivered on videotape in electronic 

archives 

University of Florida, Department of Psychiatry; Gainesville, FL 

2006 Social change, eating disorders, and youth health risk behaviors: The view from Fiji/ 

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Seminar presentation 

Columbia University School of Public Health Psychiatric Epidemiology Training Program 

Seminar; New York, NY 

2006 Eating Disorders: Diagnosis and Management of the Adult Patient/ Lecture 

Food and Mood: Co-morbidity with Eating Disorders and Addiction; Fort Myers, FL (Ten 

Broeck Healthcare Foundation and Wekiva Springs Center for Women) 


Food and Mood: Co-morbidity with Eating Disorders and Addiction; Tampa, FL (Ten 



Food and Mood: Co-morbidity with Eating Disorders and Addiction; Orlando, FL (Ten 


2006 Epidemiology of eating disorders/ Discussant 

NIMH Workshop on the Classification of Eating Disorders; Bethesda, MD (NIMH) 

2007 Culture, social transition and risk for eating disorders, In: Eating Disorders in Adolescents: 

Translational Research from Bench to Bedside/ Symposium lecture (abstract) 

American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 54th Annual Meeting, Boston 

2007 Rock, Scissors, Paper: Hierarchy, Circularity, and Boundaries in Cross-Disciplinary 

Scholarship/ Keynote speaker 

Rethinking Health, Culture, and Society: Physician-Scholars in the Social Sciences and 

Medical Humanities; Chicago, IL (University of Chicago) 

2007 Socio-Cultural and Behavioral Genetic Perspectives on Eating Disorders: Implications for 

Theory, Treatment, and Recovery/ Keynote panel speaker 

17 th Annual Renfrew Center Foundation Conference for Professionals; Exploring Eating 

Disorders Recovery, Philadelphia, PA (Renfrew Center Foundation) 

2009 Impact of Culture on Eating Disorder Classification/ Session moderator 

The Classification and Diagnosis of Eating Disorders; Arlington, VA (National Institute of 

Mental Health (R13 MH081447) 

2009 The Utility of DSM-IV Criteria to Classify Disordered Eating in an Ethnic Fijian Population: 

A Latent Profile Analysis/ General session (co-)presentation 

The Classification and Diagnosis of Eating Disorders; Arlington, VA (National Institute of 

Mental Health (R13 MH081447) 

2010 Unfamiliar presentations of familiar symptoms in ethnic Fijian adolescent girls: 

Implications for the cultural moderation of eating pathology/ Plenary lecture 

4th FPR-UCLA Interdisciplinary Conference: "Cultural and Biological Contexts of 

Psychiatric Disorder: 

Implications for Diagnosis and Treatment;" Los Angeles, CA (Foundation for 

Psychocultural Research-UCLA) 

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2010 Cultural and biological contexts of bipolar disorder: Roundtable discussion/ Plenary 

roundtable discussant 

4th FPR-UCLA Interdisciplinary Conference: "Cultural and Biological Contexts of 

Psychiatric Disorder: 

Implications for Diagnosis and Treatment;" Los Angeles, CA (Foundation for 

Psychocultural Research-UCLA) 

2010 Cultural diversity in eating disorders: Implications for the clinical utility of DSM V across 

diverse social contexts/ Invited symposium presentation 

Association for Psychological Science; 22nd Annual Convention; Boston, MA 

2010 Mentorship and Career Development/General session presentation 

"Research Careers in Global Mental Health"; National Institute of Mental Health; 

Bethesda, MD (National Institute of Mental Health) 

International 

1996 The National Eating Disorders Screening Program/ Workshop presentation (abstract) 

Seventh New York International Conference on Eating Disorders; New York, NY 

(Academy for Eating Disorders and Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of 

Medicine) 

1998 Broadening Access to Care for Eating Disordered Patients/ Workshop presentation and 

organizer (abstract) 

Eighth New York International Conference on Eating Disorders; New York, NY 

(Academy for Eating Disorders and Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of 

Medicine) 

1999 Introduction of Television and Rapid Social Change in Fiji: Effects on Eating Disorders 

Symptoms and Body Image of Ethnic Fijian Women/ Lecture and expert consultation 

The Impact of Globalization on the Images of Older Women: an International Symposium; 

United Nations, New York, NY (Co-sponsored by AARP and Nederlands platform 

Ouderen en Europa, in collaboration with the United Nations Department of Economic 

and Social Affairs) 

2000 Media Exposure and Eating Disorders: Current Knowledge and Implications for Prevention/ 

Workshop presentation and organizer (abstract) 

Ninth New York International Conference on Eating Disorders; New York, NY (Academy 

for Eating Disorders and Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine) 

2000 The impact of television on disordered eating in Fiji/ Scientific paper session presentation 

(abstract) 

9th International Conference on Eating Disorders, New York 

2000 Postpartum Illness in Fiji/ General session lecture 

Postpartum Dysphoria and Depression—Anthropological, Ethnopsychiatric, and 

Evolutionary Dimensions; Bad Homburg, Germany (Reimers Stiftung [foundation]) 

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2002 Culture, the Media, and Eating Disorders: The View from Fiji/ Plenary lecture 

International Conference on Eating Disorders; Boston, MA (Academy for Eating 

Disorders) 

2002 Important Considerations in the Development of a Research Culture/ Lecture delivered in 

absentia 

Consultation on the Development of Research Culture and Capacity for Mental Health in 

the Western Pacific Region; Manila, Philippines (World Health Organization, Western 

Pacific Regional Office) 

2003 Television, Social Change, and Eating Disorders: The View from Fiji/ Plenary lecture 

Wiener Essstorungsenquete, Korperbild, Schonheit, Medien [Body Image, Beauty, Media]; 

Vienna, Austria 

2004 Cross-cultural Symposium/ Plenary symposium co-chair and moderator 

Eating Disorders Research Society Meeting; Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

2004 Television, social change, and eating disorders: The view from Fiji, In: Emerging Mental 

Health Issues in Transitional Societies/ Symposium lecture (abstract) 

International Federation of Psychiatric Epidemiology (IFPE) biennial congress, Bristol, 

UK 

2005 Is Diagnosis in the Eye of the Beholder? A Cross-Cultural Perspective/ Plenary lecture 

7th London International Eating Disorders Conference; London, U.K. 

2005 Weight Management Across the Spectrum of Eating Disorders/ Plenary chair and 

moderator 

International Conference on Eating Disorders; Montreal, Canada 

2005 Social Transition, the Media, and Eating Disorders: The View from Fiji/ Lecture 

University of the South Pacific; Suva, Fiji 

2007 Conference Welcome and Goals/ Conference introduction and introduction of keynote 

speaker, Dr. Tom Insel, Director, NIMH 

International Conference on Eating Disorders; Baltimore, MD (Academy for Eating 

Disorders) 

2007 Eating Disorders: Evaluation and Management of the Adult Patient/ In-service lecture 

Sigatoka District Hospital; Sigatoka, Fiji 

2007 The Transformation of the Moral Valence of Being Large in Fiji/ General session lecture 

Bodies of Evidence: Fat Across Disciplines; Newnham College, University of Cambridge; 

Cambridge, United Kingdom (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and 

Humanities) 

2008 Cultural diversity in disordered eating identified with the EDE-Q in an ethnic Fijian 

population/ Scientific paper session (abstract) 

International Conference on Eating Disorders, Seattle 

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2008 “Social environment and eating disorders: Unfamiliar presentations of familiar symptoms, 

risk correlates, and resilience in ethnic Fijian adolescent girls;” In: Environmental 

Influences in the Eating Disorders/ Plenary symposium speaker 

Eating Disorders Research Society annual meeting; Montreal, Canada 

2009 Eating Disorders: A Global Perspective/ Keynote speaker 

Eating Disorders Institute: Royal College of Psychiatrists Annual Meeting; Liverpool, UK 

(Royal College of Psychiatrists) 

2009 “Cognitive Criteria & Non-fat-phobic AN” In: Eating Disorders and DSM-5: Current 

Status/ Plenary symposium speaker 

Eating Disorders Research Society annual meeting; Brooklyn, NY 

2010 "Anorexia Nervosa" In: Eating Disorders in DSM-V/ Workshop co-presenter (abstract) 

2010 International Conference on Eating Disorders; Salzburg, Austria; June 11, 2010. 

2010 “Cultural Issues in Research: Methods, Theory, and Ethics”/ Invited lecture 

Combined INTACT Workshop and NIMH/AED Research Teaching Day at the 

International Conference on Eating Disorders; Salzburg, Austria; June 8, 2010 (Sponsored 

by NIMH funding.) 

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Report of Clinical Activities and Innovations 

Current Licensure and Certification 

1991 Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners 

1992 Massachusetts Medical License 

1995 Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology 

2005 Recertification, Diplomate in the Specialty of Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and 

Neurology 

Practice Activities 

1994 - 

1996 

Outpatient 

psychopharmacology with 

evaluation and management of 

adult patients in an ethnically 

diverse (primarily Latino) 

socio-economically 

disadvantaged population. 

1995- Outpatient evaluation, 

consultation, psychotherapy, 

and psychopharmacologic 

management of patients with 

anorexia nervosa, bulimia 

nervosa, binge-eating disorder, 

and atypical eating disorders. 

2001- Pro bono team consultation to 

community clinicians 

Chelsea-Massachusetts 

General Hospital Mental 

Health Center 

Department of Psychiatry, 

Massachusetts General 

Hospital 

Department of Psychiatry, 

Massachusetts General 

Hospital 

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8-10 clinical hours weekly 

8-9 clinical hours weekly 

through 2003; then reduced to 

2-4 clinical hours weekly. 

Arranged ad hoc 

Report of Education of Patients and Service to the Community 

Activities 

No educational materials below were sponsored by outside entities. 

Local 

1997 Harvard Eating Disorders Center/ Lecturer: “Eating disorders and their cultural milieu” 

Lecture at a public forum: “Culture, the Media & Eating Disorders” attended by 

approximately 200 laypersons 

1997 Harvard Eating Disorders Center/ Lecturer: “What parents need to know about treatment 

approaches” 

Lecture at a public forum: “Eating disorders: What you, your family & friends need to

know” 

1998 Harvard Eating Disorders Center/ Clinical Discussant 

Discussant at a Public Forum: “Culture, the Media & Eating Disorders: The Challenge of 

Promoting Self-Acceptance” attended by approximately 150 laypersons 

2004 Vincent Club Symposium; Boston, MA/ Lecture: "How exposure to television increases 

eating disorders in adolescent girls" 

2006 Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital/ Lecturer: “Eating Disorders” 

Lunch and discussion on mental illness and treatment held in Palm Beach, Florida 

2006 Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital/ Presenter: “Eating 

Disorders” 

Presentation on eating disorders at: "Healing Patients, Healing Families Luncheon and 

Forum" held in Palm Beach, Florida attended by approximately 75 laypersons 

2008 Harvard College Alumni Association/ Symposium moderator 

International 

Organized and moderated a Harvard College 25 th Reunion Symposium for the Class of ’83: 

"Searching for Wellness: Exploring the Frontiers of Health Care and Well-Being in the 

21st Century." 

1988 Rotary Club of Sigatoka, Fiji/ Guest speaker: “Body image in Fiji” 

Lectured at a meeting attended by Fijian citizen-members of the Sigatoka Rotary Club 

1989 Methodist Youth Fellowship Sigatoka Village, Fiji/ Guest speaker: “Protection from 

sexually transmitted diseases” 

Lectured at a meeting attended by approximately 40 young adults. 

1994-1995 Sub-Divisional District Hospital 

Sigatoka, Fiji/ Consultant Psychiatrist (volunteer) 

Provided psychiatric evaluation and consultation at a sub-divisional regional hospital in 

Sigatoka, Fiji during January – April, 1994 and February – May, 1995 under a temporary 

certificate of permission to “practise medicine” issued by the Fiji Medical Council. 

2007 Community meeting; Nadroga, Fiji/ Co-Presenter and Translator: “I vei kodaki mo 

qwaravia vavina mu uto?” (“Heart Health”) 

Community meeting attended by approximately 50 adults and children 

2008 7 th Annual Sheena’s Place Awareness Breakfast; Toronto, Canada/ Keynote speaker: 

“Body, Self, and Society: The View from Fiji” 

Keynote speaker at annual charity fundraiser for eating disorders program attended by 

approximately 200 laypersons 

2008 7 th Annual Open Forum, Sheena’s Place; Toronto, Canada/ Keynote speaker: “Culture, 

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the Media, and Eating Disorders” 

Keynote speaker at a live public forum also filmed for television audience in Toronto. 

Educational Material for Patients and the Lay Community 

No educational materials below were sponsored by outside entities. 

Books, monographs, articles and presentations in other media 

1981 Crimson Key Guide 

Book 

Co-editor Fine SN, Pomeranz HD, Becker AE, eds. Crimson 

Key Guide Book, 1981 Edition. Cambridge: Harvard 

University, 1981; pp.1-312. 

1985 A Tale of Two Cités Author Becker AE. Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin. 

Spring, 1985; pp. 28-30. 

1985 Becoming a doctor Author Becker AE. Radcliffe Quarterly. June, 1985; pp. 8-9. 

Recognition 

1999 Top Doctors in Boston (Psychiatry) Boston Magazine 



2007-2008 Best Doctors in America (Psychiatry) Best Doctors, Inc. 

2009-2010 Best Doctors in America (Psychiatry) Best Doctors, Inc. 

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Report of Scholarship 

Publications 

• Peer reviewed publications in print or other media 

o Research investigations published in scientific journals 

1. Becker AE. Pregnant bodies and interpersonal boundaries in Fiji. Domodomo, Fiji Museum 

Quarterly 1997; 11: 25-32. 

2. Becker AE. Postpartum illness in Fiji: A sociosomatic perspective. Psychosomatic Medicine 1998; 

60:431-38. 

3. Blais MA, Becker AE, Burwell RA, Flores AT, Nussbaum KM, Greenwood DN, Ekeblad ER, 

Herzog DB. Pregnancy: Outcome and impact on symptomatology in a cohort of eating disordered 

women. International Journal of Eating Disorders 2000; 27:140-9. 

4. Franko DF, Blais MA, Becker AE, Selwyn S, Greenwood DN, Flores AT, Ekeblad ER, Eddy K, 

Herzog DB. Pregnancy complications and neonatal outcome in women with eating disorders. 

American Journal of Psychiatry 2001; 158:1461-6. 

5. Steiner-Adair C, Sjostrom L, Franko D, Pai S, Tucker R, Becker AE, Herzog DB. Primary 

prevention of eating disorders in adolescent girls: Learning from practice. International Journal of 

Eating Disorders 2002; 32:401-11. 

6. Becker AE, Burwell RA, Gilman SE, Herzog DB, Hamburg P. Eating behaviours and attitudes 

following prolonged television exposure among ethnic Fijian adolescent girls. The British 

Journal of Psychiatry 2002; 180: 509-14. 

7. Becker AE, Franko D, Speck A, Herzog DB. Ethnicity and differential access to care for eating 

disorder symptoms. International Journal of Eating Disorders 2003; 33:205-12. 

8. Rubin LR, Fitts ML, Becker AE. ‘Whatever feels good in my soul’: Body Ethics and Aesthetics 

among African American and Latina Women. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 2003; 27: 49- 

75. 

9. Becker AE, Burwell RA, Navara K, Gilman SE. Binge-eating and binge-eating disorder in a 

small-scale indigenous society: The view from Fiji. International Journal of Eating Disorders 

2003; 34:423-431. 

10. Lasser KE, Zeytinoglu H, Miller E, Becker AE, Hermann RC, Bor DH. Do women who screen 

positive for mental disorders in primary care have lower mammography rates? General Hospital 

Psychiatry 2003; 25:214-16. 

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11. Becker AE, Franko DL, Nussbaum K, Herzog DB. Secondary prevention for eating disorders: The 

impact of education, screening, and referral in a college population. International Journal of Eating 

Disorders 2004; 36:157-62. 

12. Becker AE. Television, disordered eating, and young women in Fiji: Negotiating body image and 

identity during rapid social change. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 2004; 28:533-59. 

13. Becker AE, Thomas JJ, Franko DL, Herzog DB. Interpretation and use of weight information in 

the evaluation of eating disorders: Counselor response to weight information in a national eating 

disorders educational and screening program. International Journal of Eating Disorders 2005; 

37:38-43. 

14. Becker AE, Thomas JJ, Franko DL, Herzog DB. Disclosure patterns of eating and 

weight concerns to clinicians, educational professionals, family, and peers. International Journal 

of Eating Disorders 2005; 38:18-23. 

15. Becker AE, Gilman SE, Burwell RA. Changes in prevalence of overweight and in body image 

among Fijian women between 1989 and 1998. Obesity Research 2005; 13:110-7. 

16. Becker AE, Fay, K, Gilman SE, Striegel-Moore, R. Facets of acculturation and their diverse 

relations to body concern in Fiji. International Journal of Eating Disorders 2007; 40:42-50. 

17. Franko DL, Becker AE, Thomas JJ, Herzog DB. Cross-ethnic differences in eating disorder 

symptoms and related distress. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 2007; 40:156-64. 

18. Miller E, Lasser KE, Becker AE. Breast and cervical cancer screening for women with mental 

illness: Patient and provider perspectives on improving linkages between primary care and 

mental health. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 2007; 10:189-97. 

19. Becker AE, Arrindell AH, Perloe A, Fay K, Striegel-Moore RH. A Qualitative study of 

perceived social barriers to care for eating disorders: Perspectives from ethnically diverse health 

care consumers. International Journal of Eating Disorders; Published online: 2009; DOI: 

10.1002/eat.20755. 

20. Becker AE, Thomas JJ, Bainivualiku A, Richards L, Navara K, Roberts A, Gilman SE, Striegel- 

Moore R, for the HEALTHY Fiji Study Group. Validity and reliability of a Fijian translation and 

adaptation of the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire. International Journal of Eating 

Disorders 2010; 43:171-178. 

21. Becker AE, Thomas JJ, Bainivualiku A, Richards L, Navara K, Roberts A, Gilman SE, Striegel- 

Moore R, for the HEALTHY Fiji Study Group. Adaptation and evaluation of the Clinical 

Impairment Assessment to assess disordered eating related distress in an adolescent female 

ethnic Fijian population. International Journal of Eating Disorders 2010; 43:179-186. 

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22. Becker AE, Roberts AL, Perloe A, Bainivualiku A, Richards LK, Gilman SE, Striegel-Moore 

RH. Youth health risk behavior assessment in Fiji: The reliability of Global School-based 

Student Health Survey content adapted for ethnic Fijian girls. Ethnicity & Health 2010; 15: 181- 

197. 

23. Thomas JJ, Crosby RD, Wonderlich SA, Striegel-Moore RH, Becker AE. A latent profile 

analysis of the typology of bulimic symptoms in an indigenous Pacific population: Evidence of 

cross-cultural variation in phenomenology. Psychological Medicine; in press. [DOI: 

10.1017/S0033291710000255; published online March 29, 2010]. 

24. Becker AE, Perloe A, Richards L, Roberts AL, Bainivualiku A, Khan AN, Navara K, Gilman 

SE, Aalbersberg W, Striegel-Moore RH for the HEALTHY Fiji Study Group. Prevalence and 

socio-demographic correlates of cigarette smoking, alcohol use, and unsafe sexual behavior 

among ethnic Fijian secondary schoolgirls. Fiji Medical Journal; in press. 

25. Becker AE, Fay K, Agnew-Blais J, Guarnaccia PM, Striegel-Moore RH, Gilman SE. 

Development of a measure of ‘acculturation’ for ethnic Fijians: Methodologic and conceptual 

considerations for application to eating disorders research. Transcultural Psychiatry; in press. 

26. Marques L, Alegria M, Becker AE, Chen C-N, Fang A, Chosak A, Diniz JB. Prevalence, 

correlates of impairment, and service utilization for ethnic minorities with eating disorders 

compared to non-Latino whites: Implications for reducing ethnic disparities in health care access 

for eating disorders. International Journal of Eating Disorders; in press [10.1002/eat.20787; 

published online July 27, 2010]. 

27. Delinsky SS, St. Germain SA, Thomas JJ, Craigen KE, Fagley WH, Weigel TJ, Levendusky P, 

Becker AE. Naturalistic study of residential treatment outcomes for female adolescents with 

eating disorders. Eating and Weight Disorders; in press. 

28. Delinsky SS, Thomas JJ, Sarah A. St. Germain SA, Craigen KE, Weigel TJ, Levendusky PG, 

Becker AE. Motivation to change among residential treatment patients with an eating disorder: 

Assessment of the multi-dimensionality of motivation and its relation to treatment outcome. 

International Journal of Eating Disorders; in press. [DOI: 10.1002/eat.20809; published online 

April 2, 1010]. 

29. Thomas JJ, Delinsky SS, St. Germain SA, Weigel TJ, Levendusky PG, Becker AE. How do 

eating disorder specialist clinicians apply DSM-IV diagnostic criteria in routine clinical 

practice? Implications for DSM-5. Psychiatry Research 2010; 178:511-17. 

30. Becker AE, Bainivualiku A, Khan AN, Aalbersberg W, Geraghty P, Gilman SE, Roberts AL, 

Navara K, Richards L, Perloe A, Beresin EV, Striegel-Moore RH. Feasibility of a school-based 

study of health risk behaviors in ethnic Fijian female adolescents in Fiji: The HEALTHY Fiji 

Study. Fiji Medical Journal; in press. 

31. Thompson-McCormick JJ, Thomas JJ, Bainivualiku A, Khan AN, Becker AE. Breakfast 

skipping as a risk correlate for overweight and obesity in schoolgoing ethnic Fijian adolescent 

girls. Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition; in press. 

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32. Striegel-Moore RH, Rosselli F, Holtzman N, Dierker L, Becker AE, Swaney G. Behavioral 

symptoms of eating disorders in Native Americans: Results from the Add Health Survey Wave 

III. International Journal of Eating Disorders; in press. 

33. Becker AE, Fay K, Agnew-Blais J, Khan N, Striegel-Moore RH, Gilman SE. Social network 

media exposure and adolescent eating pathology in Fiji. The British Journal of Psychiatry; in 

press. 

o Original research published as a book 

34. Becker AE. Body, Self, and Society: The View from Fiji. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania 

Press; 1995. [pp. 1-206] 

o Original research published in book chapters 

35. Becker AE. Nurturing and negligence: Working on others' bodies in Fiji. In: Csordas T, ed. 

Embodiment and Experience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1994. pp. 100-15. 

36. Becker AE, Lee DTS. Indigenous models for attenuation of postpartum depression: Case studies 

from Fiji and Hong Kong. In: The World Mental Health Casebook. Cohen A, Kleinman A, 

Saraceno B, eds. New York: Kluwer/Academic Publishers. 2002; Pp. 221-236. 

** ** 

37. Becker AE, Ferguson L, Iron-Segev S, Kennedy M, Beard B, Kozek L, Scheick E, 

Gortmaker SL. Dysregulated Eating Patterns Among Graduate Students: Scale Development and 

Predictors" In: JN Fuchs, ed. Eating Disorders in Adult Women. New York: Nova Science 

Publishers; 2008. 

38. Becker AE. Nurturing and negligence: Working on others’ bodies in Fiji. [Shortened 

republication of the peer-reviewed original research cited above with the same title]. In: 

Malacrida C, Low J, eds. Sociology of the Body: A Reader. Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford 

University Press; 2008; pp. 65-72. 

39. Thomas JJ, Crosby RD, Wonderlich SA, Striegel-Moore RH, Becker AE. A latent profile 

analysis of the typology of bulimic symptoms in an indigenous Pacific population: Evidence of 

cross-cultural variation in phenomenology. [Republication of peer-reviewed original research 

paper listed above.] In: Striegel-Moore RH, Wonderlich SA, Walsh BT, Mitchell JE, eds. 

Developing an Evidence-Based Classification of Eating Disorders. Arlington, VA: American 

Psychiatric Press, Inc.; In press. 

o Other peer-reviewed publications 

40. Becker AE, Hamburg, P. Culture, the media, and eating disorders. Harvard Review of 

Psychiatry 1996; 4:163-7. 

** First authorship is shared equally for this publication. 

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41. Kleinman A, Becker AE. “Sociosomatics”: The contributions of anthropology to psychosomatic 

medicine [Editorial]. Psychosomatic Medicine 1998; 60:389-93. 

42. Becker AE, Grinspoon SK, Klibanski A, Herzog DB. Eating disorders. New England Journal of 

Medicine 1999; 340:1092-8. 

43. Jianlin J, Kleinman A, Becker AE. Suicide in contemporary China: A review of China’s 

distinctive suicide demographics in their sociocultural context. Harvard Review of Psychiatry 

2001; 9:1-12. 

44. Holt DJ, Phillips KA, Shapiro, ER, Becker AE. “My face is my fate:” Biological and psychosocial 

approaches to the treatment of a woman with obsessions and delusions. Harvard Review of 

Psychiatry, 2003; 11:142-154. 

45. Becker AE, Keel P, Anderson-Fye EP, Thomas JJ. Genes (and/)or jeans? Genetic and sociocultural 

contributions to risk for eating disorders. Journal of Addictive Diseases 2004; 23:81-103. 

46. Good M-JD, James C, Good BJ, Becker AE. The Culture of Medicine and Racial, Ethnic and 

Class Disparities in Health Care. [Re-publication.] In: Romero M, Margolis E, eds. The 

Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, Ltd. 2005. Pp. 

396-423. 

47. Wiseman CV, Sunday SR, Becker AE. Impact of the media on adolescent body image. Child 

and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinics of North America 2005; 14: 453-71. 

48. Becker AE. Culture and eating disorders classification. International Journal of Eating Disorders 

2007; 40 Suppl:S111-6. 

49. Alarcón RD, Becker AE, Lewis-Fernández RL, Like RC, Desai P, Foulks E, Gonzalez J, 

Hansen H, Kopelowicz A, Lu F, Oquendo MA, Primm A. of the Cultural Psychiatry Committee 

of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. Issues for DSM-V: The role of culture in 

psychiatric diagnosis. [Editorial]. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 2009; 197: 559-660. 

50. Becker AE, Perloe A, Eddy K. Clarifying criteria for cognitive signs and symptoms for eating 

disorders in DSM-V. International Journal of Eating Disorders 2009; 42:611-618. 

51. Becker AE, Thomas JJ, Pike K. Should Non-Fat-Phobic Anorexia Nervosa Be Included in 

DSM-V? International Journal of Eating Disorders 2009; 42:620-635. 

52. Becker AE, Thomas JJ, Pike K. Should Non-Fat-Phobic Anorexia Nervosa Be Included in 

DSM-V? [Republication of the peer-reviewed meta-analysis paper listed above.] In: Striegel- 

Moore RH, Wonderlich SA, Walsh BT, Mitchell JE, eds. Developing an Evidence-Based 

Classification of Eating Disorders. Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Press, Inc. In press. 

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53. Becker AE. Culture and eating disorders classification. [Republication of the peer-reviewed paper 

listed above.] In: Striegel-Moore RH, Wonderlich SA, Walsh BT, Mitchell JE, eds. Developing 

an Evidence-Based Classification of Eating Disorders. Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric 

Press, Inc. In press. 

54. Striegel-Moore RH, Lynch W, Levin O, Becker AE. Eating disorders in Native American 

populations. In: Striegel-Moore RH, Wonderlich SA, Walsh BT, Mitchell JE, eds. Developing 

an Evidence-Based Classification of Eating Disorders. Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric 

Press, Inc. In press. 

o Research publications without named authorship 

55. Romano SJ, Halmi KA, Sarkar NP, Koke SC, Lee JS.* A Placebo-Controlled Study of 

Fluoxetine in Continued Treatment of Bulimia Nervosa after Successful Acute Fluoxetine 

Treatment, American Journal of Psychiatry 2002; 159:96-102. (*member of the investigative 

team cited in acknowledgements of the manuscript). 

• Non-peer reviewed scientific or medical publications/materials in print or other media 

o Proceedings of meetings or other non-peer reviewed research publications 

1. Becker AE. Introduction of television and rapid social change in Fiji: Effects on eating disorders 

symptoms and body image of ethnic Fijian women. In: Proceedings of The Impact of 

Globalization on the Images of Older Women, an International Symposium co-sponsored by 

AARP and Nederlands platform Ouderen en Europa In collaboration with the United Nations 

Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 1999. 

o Reviews, chapters, monographs and editorials 

2. Becker AE. The New Our Bodies, Ourselves by the Boston Women's Book Collective. [Book 

review]. Radcliffe Quarterly 1986; Mar:46. 

3. Becker AE. Suicide in the South Pacific. Working paper for and excerpted in: Desjarlais R, 

Eisenberg L, Good B, Kleinman A, eds. World Mental Health: Problems and Priorities in Low- 

Income Countries. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 1995. pp. 72-73. 

4. Becker AE. Deviant Bodies, Terry J, Urla J, eds. [Book review]. American Anthropologist 1997; 

99:7-8. 

5. Becker AE, Kaplan L. Approach to the obese patient. In: Stern T, Herman J, Slavin P, eds. The 

MGH Guide to Psychiatry in Primary Care. New York: McGraw Hill; 1998. pp. 371-84. 

6. Becker AE, Hamburg P, Herzog DB. The role of psychopharmacologic management in the 

treatment of eating disorders. In: Dunner DL, Rosenbaum JF, eds. Psychiatric Clinics of North 

America: Annual of Drug Therapy. Philadelphia: WB Saunders Company; 1998. pp.17-51. 

7. Herzog DB, Becker AE. Eating disorders. In: Nicholi AM, ed. The New Harvard Guide to 

Psychiatry. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; 1999. pp. 400-411. 

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8. Becker AE, Kleinman A. Anthropology and psychiatry. In: Kaplan HI, Sadock BJ, eds. 

Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins; 2000. Pp. 463-476. 

9. Becker AE. Eating disorders. In: Stern T, Herman J, eds. Psychiatry Update and Board 

Preparation. New York: McGraw Hill; 2000. 

10. Becker AE. Ethics, Culture, and Psychiatry: International Perspectives. Okasha A, Arboleda- 

Florez J, Sartorius N, eds. [Book review]. New England Journal of Medicine 2001; 344:1405-6. 

11. Pearson KH, Becker AE. Eating Disorders: Socio-cultural Dimensions in their Pathogenesis and 

Phenomenology. In: Pearson KH, Sonawalla S, Rosenbaum J, eds. Women’s Health in Psychiatry. 

Baltimore: Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins. 2002; pp. 41-55. 

12. Good MJD, James C, Good BJ, Becker AE. The Culture of Medicine and Racial, Ethnic and Class 

Disparities in Health Care. In: Smedley BD, Stith AY, and Nelson AR, Eds. Unequal Treatment: 

Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. Washington, DC: National Academy 

Press. 2002; pp. 594-625. 

13. Becker AE, Kaplan L. Approach to the obese patient. In: Stern T, Herman J, Slavin P, eds. The 

MGH Guide to Primary Care Psychiatry, 2 nd edition. New York: McGraw Hill. 2003; pp. 451-67. 

14. Anderson-Fye E, Becker AE. Eating disorders across cultures. Handbook of Eating Disorders and 

Obesity. Thompson JK, ed. Wiley. 2003; pp. 565-89. 

15. Becker AE. Update on the outpatient management of eating disorders in adults. Current Women’s 

Health Reports 2003; 3:221-29. 

16. Becker AE. Pharmacologic management of anorexia nervosa: Finally, some good news. Curbside 

Consultant. Boston: Massachusetts General Hospital 2003; 2:1,4. 

17. Becker AE. Eating disorders and social transition. Primary Psychiatry 2003, 10:75-79. 

18. Becker AE, Israel E. Patients with eating disorders. In: Stern TS, Fricchione G, Cassem NH, 

Jellinek MS, Rosenbaum JF, eds. Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry, Fifth edition. 

Philadelphia: Mosby. 2004; pp. 613-639. 

19. Becker AE. Eating disorders. In: Stern T, Herman J, eds. Psychiatry Update and Board 

Preparation, 2 nd Edition. New York: McGraw Hill. 2004; pp. 165-172. 

20. Becker AE, Keel P, Anderson-Fye EP, Thomas JJ. Genes (and/)or Jeans? Genetic and sociocultural 

contributions to risk for eating disorders. In: Gold MS, ed. Eating Disorders, Overeating, 

and Pathological Attachment to Food: Independent or Addictive Disorders? [Simultaneous 

publication with the above referenced paper.] Hayworth Press, Inc. 2004; 81-203. 

21. Becker AE. New global perspectives on eating disorders. [Editorial]. Culture, Medicine and 

Psychiatry 2004; 28:433-37. 

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22. Becker AE. Important Considerations in Fostering Growth of a Research Culture in the 

Developing World. In: Georgiopoulos A, Rosenbaum J, eds. Perspectives in Cross-Cultural 

Psychiatry. Philadelphia: Lippincott. 2005; pp. 291-302 

23. Georgiopoulos A, Saltzman A, Becker AE. Postpartum Mood Disturbance in Cross-Cultural 

Perspective. In: Georgiopoulos A, Rosenbaum J, eds. Perspectives in Cross-Cultural 

Psychiatry. Philadelphia: Lippincott. 2005; 105-134. 

24. Delinsky SS, Becker AE. Binge Eating Disorder: A Wealth of Treatment Options. Curbside 

Consultant. Boston: Massachusetts General Hospital; 2005/2006; 4:1,3. 

25. Becker AE, Fay K. Socio-cultural Issues and Eating Disorders. In: Wonderlich S, de Zwaan 

M, Steiger H, Mitchell J, eds. Annual Review of Eating Disorders. Chicago, IL: Academy for 

Eating Disorders. 2006; pp. 35-63. 

26. Becker AE, Look A. Eating Disorders. In: Feldman M, Friedman LS, Brandt LJ, eds. 

Sleisinger and Fordtran’s Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease, 8 th Edition. Philadelphia: 

Elsevier Inc. 2006; pp. 383-407. 

27. Becker AE. Eating Disorders. In: World Book Encyclopedia. Chicago, IL: World Book 

Publishing. 2006; p. 48. 

28. Judge AM, Thomas JJ, Becker AE. Ethnic Disparities in Overweight and Obesity in the U.S.: 

A Review of Socio-Cultural Contributions. In: Ditmier LF, ed., New Developments in Obesity 

Research. New York: Nova Science Publishers. 2006; Pp. 85-119. 

29. Becker AE, Guarnaccia PG, Dumit J, Lewis-Fernandez R. End of an era. [Editorial.] Culture, 

Medicine and Psychiatry 2007; 31:127-129. 

30. Delinsky SS, Derenne J, Becker AE. Eating Disorders. In Quah S, Heggenhougen K, eds. 

Encyclopedia of Public Health. Philadelphia: Elsevier Inc. 2008. 

31. Becker AE, Mickley DW, Derenne J, Klibanski A. Eating Disorders: Evaluation and 

Management. In Stern TA, Rosenbaum JF, Fava M, Rauch S, Biederman J. Comprehensive 

Clinical Psychiatry. Philadelphia: Mosby/Elsevier. 2008; pp. 499-518. 

32. Becker AE, Perloe A, Nyquist K, Kaplan LM. Complementary and Alternative Therapy for 

Weight Management. In Mischoulon D, Rosenbaum JF, eds. Natural Medications for 

Psychiatric Disorders: Considering the Alternatives. Baltimore, MD: Lippincott Williams & 

Wilkins. 2008; pp. 245-280. 

33. Derenne J, Baker CW, Delinsky SS, Becker AE. Clinical Ratings Scales and Assessment in 

Eating Disorders. In: Blais M, Baer L, eds. Handbook of Clinical Rating Scales and 

Assessment in Psychiatry and Mental Health. Humana Press. 2010; Pp. 145-74. 

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34. Becker AE. Commentary: Maria – Cultural change and posttraumatic stress in the life of a 

Belizean adolescent girl. In Worthman CM, Plotsky PM, Schechter DS, Cummings CA, eds. 

Formative experiences: The interaction of caregiving, culture, and developmental 

psychobiology. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2010; Pp. 344-350. 

35. Becker AE, Baker CW. Eating Disorders. In: Feldman M, Friedman LS, Brandt LJ, eds. 

Sleisinger and Fordtran’s Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease, 9 th Edition. Philadelphia: 

Elsevier Inc. in press. 

36. Becker AE, Thomas JJ, Russell KS, Israel EJ. Patients with an Eating Disorder. In: Stern TA, 

Fricchione GL, Cassem NH, Jellinek MS, Rosenbaum JF (eds). The Massachusetts General 

Hospital Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry 6/e. Philadelphia: Mosby/Elsevier. 2010; 

Pp. 189-210. 

o Letters to the Editor 

37. Becker AE, Grinspoon SK, Klibanski A, Herzog DB. Eating Disorders. New England Journal of 

Medicine 1999; 341:615-16. 

38. Franko DL, Blais MA, Becker AE, Delinsky SS, Greenwood DN, Flores AT, Ekeblad ER, Eddy 

KT, Herzog DB. Pregnancy in women with eating disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry 

2002; 159:1250. 

Professional Educational Materials or Reports, in print or other media 

1. Jacobs DG, Kopans BS, Herzog DB, Becker AE. Procedure Manual, Volume II- Screening 

Component, National Eating Disorders Screening Program, 1996: [A manual developed to train 

college counselors to screen and make referral decisions for eating disorder symptoms. Distributed 

in print to over 400 college campuses around the nation for use during the 1996 National Eating 

Disorders Screening Program. I developed, drafted, and edited the majority of the content.] 

2. Becker AE, ed. Syllabus. Primary Care Symposium: Assessment and Management of Eating 

Disorders in the Primary Care Setting. [Developed and edited the syllabus with contributions from 

clinicians in medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and psychiatry. The symposium was 

attended by over 100 clinicians from around New England.] 

3. Yager J, Becker AE, Zerbe K. Eating disorders: Update 2002. Psychiatric UPDATE (audiotape and 

pamphlet); New York: Medical Information Systems. 2002. [Intended for a national audience of 

health professionals.] 

4. Gold MS, Becker AE, Wang G-J. Overeating, binge eating & other eating disorders. Psychiatric 

UPDATE (audiotape and pamphlet); New York: Medical Information Systems. 2003; 23:1-9. 

[Intended for a national audience of health professionals.] 

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5. Becker AE, Hamburg P. Members Speak: Treatment of comorbid eating disorders and substance 

abuse. Clinical Community Forum; Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Academy. 

http://www.mghcme.org/?page=clinical/facultyspeak. 2006. [Intended for a national audience of 

mental health professionals.] 

6. Becker AE. Update on Eating Disorders. In: Gold MS, Addiction and Psychiatry: A Publication 

of the University of Florida College of Medicine-Division of Addiction Medicine. Gainesville, 

FL: University of Florida. 2007. [Intended for a national audience of health professionals.] 

7. Becker AE. Members Speak: Criteria for hospitalization for an eating disorder. Clinical 

Community Forum; Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Academy 



8. Becker AE. Members Speak: Efficacy of atypical antipsychotic agents in anorexia nervosa. 

Clinical Community Forum; Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Academy. 



Theses 

1. Becker AE. Women’s Group Formation and Maintenance in Rural, Western Fiji. Senior honors 

thesis in Anthropology at Harvard College, 1983. 

2. Becker AE. The Self in the Body and in the Community in Fiji. Doctoral thesis in Anthropology 

at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, 1990. 

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