Speaker
Dr. Andrea Goldschmidt
Licensed clinical psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Biography
Dr. Goldschmidt is a licensed clinical psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. For the past 20 years, she has been studying eating behaviors that are associated with adverse health outcomes across the lifespan, particularly during the transition from childhood to adolescence. Her primary line of research is aimed at understanding onset and maintenance mechanisms that drive binge and loss of control eating (both characterized by feeling unable to control what or how much one is eating) in youth, with a particular focus on neurocognitive and self-regulation mechanisms. She also maintains a secondary research line focused on optimizing the quality of care for eating disorders in children and adolescents across community health settings using implementation science. Her overall scientific missions is to reduce suffering associated with eating- and weight-related problems in youth via development of neurobiologically-informed early intervention programs.