About the Author

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Lenore McKnight is a physician with many years of specialized experience in child psychiatry. After earning her medical degree from the University of California San Francisco Medical School, Dr. McKnight completed a pediatric internship at Children's Hospital in San Francisco, and an adult psychiatry residency and child psychiatry fellowship at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, UCSF. She is board certified in both adult, and child and adolescent psychiatry. Dr. McKnight is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. After over a decade in private outpatient practice in Northern California, Dr. McKnight began inpatient work at CPC Walnut Creek Psychiatric Hospital, where she served as medical director for three years. She then moved to Kaiser Permanente, where she established an inpatient adolescent eating disorders program for Kaiser patients at a San Francisco Bay Area hospital. She enriched the program by writing a comprehensive workbook for patients with eating disorders. Dr. McKnight is now retired after spending twenty-two years treating Kaiser inpatients with eating disorders.