Dr. Ted Weltzin

Dr. Weltzin is a member of the American Psychiatric Association. In his most recent position, he was assistant clinical profess or psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison. From 1988 to 1994, he was assistant professor of psychiatry and medical director of the Center for Overcoming Problem Eating, an inpatient program at the University of Pittsburgh. He then was the director of the Depression Treatment Program at the University of Wisconsin in 1994 and 1995.

Weltzin has researched factors that contribute to menstrual irregularities, characterizing nutritional aspects of recovery from bulimia and anorexia, and identifying predictors of recovery from anorexia. He also researched the relationship between eating disorders and impulsivity and obsessive-compulsive disorder He has lectured internationally and published over thirty research articles on a variety of eating disorders topics. He was an invited contributor to the initial American Psychiatric Association’s Eating Disorders Guidelines.