She is the Founder and Director of the American Eating Disorders Center of Long Island, is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Adelphi University in Garden City, author of A Starving Madness, and is Editor of “The Therapist’s Voice” in Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention. She has lectured at numerous national and international conferences, co-hosted a weekly radio show, and has appeared on Oprah and other television shows.