Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft, PhD, FAED, LP

Dr. Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft an Associate Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences and Psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis and is a licensed psychologist. Dr. Fitzsimmons-Craft has established programmatic lines of research centering on the use of technology for eating disorder prevention and treatment, eating disorder screening, sociocultural etiological and maintenance factors for eating disorders, eating disorder recovery, and college mental health. Ultimately her work aims to disseminate evidence-based interventions from research to practice as well as extend treatments in ways that will reach the large number of people in need of care for mental health problems but who are not receiving services. Dr. Fitzsimmons-Craft is passionate about increasing access to scalable, evidence-based mental health services, collaborating with numerous industry partners, non-profit organizations, and statewide groups in the U.S. in order to do so. Her work has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Eating Disorders Association, the Klingenstein Third Generation, and the Office on Women’s Health in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, amongst others. She has authored more than 160 peer-reviewed publications, and her work has been featured in high-profile media outlets including the New York Times, 60 Minutes, NPR, Wired, Forbes, and Scientific American.