Timothy D. Brewerton, MD is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, where he founded and directed the Eating Disorders Program (1987-2001) and was Medical Consultant at the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center (1996-2001). Dr. Brewerton is triple board certified in general psychiatry, child/adolescent psychiatry and forensic psychiatry. He is Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and Founding Fellow of the Academy of Eating Disorders (AED). He served on the AED Board of Directors and is Past-President of the Eating Disorders Research Society and the South Carolina Council for Child-Adolescent Psychiatry. He has published over 100 articles/chapters and is Editor of the text, Clinical Handbook of Eating Disorders: An Integrated Approach (2004). He has particular expertise in the fields of eating and related disorders, child abuse and trauma related disorders, such as PTSD and dissociative disorders, as well as psychopharmacology.
