Dr Angela Guarda is the Stephen and Jean Robinson Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Director of the Eating Disorders Program at Johns Hopkins Hospital in the U.S. She obtained her medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and completed residency in Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins including an externship in eating disorders at the Maudsley Hospital in London. She is an active clinician, educator and researcher. Her clinical research interests include improving meal-based weight restoration outcomes for anorexia nervosa as well as clinical and ethical issues surrounding coercive interventions in the treatment of patients with extreme anorexia nervosa. Dr Guarda has received grant funding from both the National Institutes of Health and the Klarman Family Foundation. Her current translational research examines neural mechanisms of appetite dysregulation that may contribute to the driven nature of anorexia nervosa. Dr Guarda is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and was a member of the guideline writing group for the fourth edition of the American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Patients with Eating Disorders. She is an inducted member of the Miller Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence and has been named yearly since 2009 in Castle Connolly’s “America’s Top Doctors” for eating disorders.