Joanna Steinglass, MD is a Professor of Psychiatry and the Director of Research in the Eating Disorders Clinic at the New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Dr. Steinglass graduated from Amherst College and Harvard Medical School. She completed her psychiatry training at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute and joined the Eating Disorders Research Clinic in 2003. Dr. Steinglass also serves as Training Co-Director of the Eating Disorders T32 Research Fellowship. Dr. Steinglass’ research investigates Anorexia Nervosa through study of the neural mechanisms of illness and the development of mechanism-based treatments. She conducts interdisciplinary research that uses tools from cognitive and computational neuroscience to apply the latest understanding of the healthy brain to research on Anorexia Nervosa. She applies these insights to the development of behavioral, neuromodulatory, and pharmacological interventions for the treatment of eating disorders.