B. Timothy Walsh

Bernard Timothy Walsh is an American psychiatrist, academic, author, and editor who specializes in eating disorders. He is the William and Joy Ruane Professor of Pediatric Psychopharmacology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University.

Early life

Walsh was born in 1946 in Washington, D.C He attended Princeton University and Harvard Medical School. He completed his residency in psychiatry at the Bronx Municipal Hospital Center in The Bronx, New York.

Career

In 1979, Walsh started the Eating Disorders Research Unit at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He was also the director of the Division of Clinical Therapeutics at New York State Psychiatric Institute.
He is the William and Joy Ruane Professor of Pediatric Psychopharmacology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University. His research covers the psychological and biological causes of abnormal eating behaviors. He has looked for pharmacological and psychological treatments for anorexia nevosa, binge eating disorder, and bulimia nervosa.
He is the author, editor, or co-editor of five books on adolescent health and eating disorders. He was the president of both the Academy for Eating Disorders and the Eating Disorders Research Society. He also chaired the Eating Disorders Work Group for both DSM-IV and DSM-5.
He has received awards from the Academy for Eating Disorders, American Psychiatric Association, the Association for Behavior and Cognitive Therapies, and the National Eating Disorders Association.

Selected publications

Books

Next to Nothing A Firsthand Account of One Teenager's Experience with an Eating Disorder. with Carrie Arnold.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Articles

Walsh, B. Timothy; Kaplan, Allan S., Attia, Evelyn; et al. "". JAMA vol. 295, no. 22 : 2605–12
Attia, Evelyn and Walsh, B. Timothy. "". The New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 360, no. 5 : 500–506
Walsh B. Timothy.". Physiology and Behavior, vol. 104, no. 4 : 525–529
Walsh, B. Timothy. "". American Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 170, no. 5 :477–484

Chapters

Walsh, B. T. and Attia, Evelyn. "Eating Disorders". in Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. Longo, D. L.; Fauci, A.S.; et al. New York: McGraw Hill, 2011.
"Eating Disorders". in Merck Manual. Rahway, NJ: Merck & Co., 2023.

As editor

Child Psychopharmacology. American Psychiatric Publishing Inc; 1998. Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders: What We Know and What We Don't Know. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005.Handbook of Assessment and Treatment of Eating Disorders. with Evelyn Attia, Robyn Sysko, and Deborah R. Glasofer, editors. American Psychiatric Publishing 2016. Eating Disorders and Obesity, Third Edition: A Comprehensive Handbook. with Kelly D. Brownell, ed. Guilford Press, 2017.