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Dr Walter Kaye
Dr. Walter Kaye attended Oberlin College and Ohio State College of Medicine and then completed neurology residency at Los Angeles County-USC, followed by a psychiatry residency at UCLA, and then a research fellowship at the NIMH Clinical Center in Bethesda Md. In addition, Dr. Kaye founded an eating disorders program at Dominion in Northern Virginia.
He was recruited to the UC San Diego faculty from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he was a professor of psychiatry and research director of the eating disorder program, and where he received a NIMH senior scientist award. Dr. Kaye was a Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and was the Founder and Executive Director of the UCSD Eating Disorders Research and Treatment Center.
Dr. Kaye recently retired from UCSD and is an Emeritus Distinguished Professor at UCSD. His research has focused on exploring the relationship between brain and behavior using brain imaging and genetics and developing and applying new treatments for anorexia and bulimia nervosa, such as Temperament Based-Treatment (TBT). He was the director and founder of the Price Foundation International Collaboration on the Genetics of Eating Disorders, the first large-scale international study of the genetic basis of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.
He has published over 450 papers and has been cited over 43,000 times. His h-index is 116 and he has numerous awards and honors. Recently, ScholarsGPS ranked Dr. Kaye as #3 in their list of the most highly ranked scholars in the field of anorexia nervosa and notes his publication record places him in the top 0.3% of psychiatrists.
Dr. Walter Kaye attended Oberlin College and Ohio State College of Medicine and then completed neurology residency at Los Angeles County-USC, followed by a psychiatry residency at UCLA, and then a research fellowship at the NIMH Clinical Center in Bethesda Md. In addition, Dr. Kaye founded an eating disorders program at Dominion in Northern Virginia.
He was recruited to the UC San Diego faculty from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he was a professor of psychiatry and research director of the eating disorder program, and where he received a NIMH senior scientist award. Dr. Kaye was a Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and was the Founder and Executive Director of the UCSD Eating Disorders Research and Treatment Center.
Dr. Kaye recently retired from UCSD and is an Emeritus Distinguished Professor at UCSD. His research has focused on exploring the relationship between brain and behavior using brain imaging and genetics and developing and applying new treatments for anorexia and bulimia nervosa, such as Temperament Based-Treatment (TBT). He was the director and founder of the Price Foundation International Collaboration on the Genetics of Eating Disorders, the first large-scale international study of the genetic basis of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.
He has published over 450 papers and has been cited over 43,000 times. His h-index is 116 and he has numerous awards and honors. Recently, ScholarsGPS ranked Dr. Kaye as #3 in their list of the most highly ranked scholars in the field of anorexia nervosa and notes his publication record places him in the top 0.3% of psychiatrists.
