James Lock

Clinical Focus

• Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
• Psychiatry
• Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent

Administrative Appointments

• Director, Stanford Child and Adolescent Eating Disorder Program, Divsion of Child Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (2002 - present)
• Director, Comprehensive Pediatric Care Unit, Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital (1993 - 2002)

Honors and Awards

• Mid-Career Award, National Institutes of Health (2005-2010)
• Career Development Award, National Institutes Of Health (1998-2003)
• Member, Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society (1987)
• Member, Eating Disorder Research Society (1999)
• Junior Faculty Development Award, Association of Academic Psychiatrists (1998)

Professional Education

• Board Certification: Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (1994)
• Board Certification: Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (1993)
• Fellowship: UC Davis, CA (1993)
• Residency: UCLA Medical Center, CA (1991)
• Internship: UCLA Medical Center, CA (1988)

Postdoctoral Advisees

Alison Darcy

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Health Services Research
• Psychiatry and Behavioral Science

Community & International Work

• Does Hospital-Based Weight Restoration Prior to Outpatient Family Therapy Improve Outcomes for Child and Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa?, Sydney, Australia 

Research Interests

For the past 15 years I have been developing a research program for eating disorders in children and adolescents. I am an established scientist with over 200 publications including original peer reviewed articles, professional articles, book chapters, and books in the field. I have completed several NIH funded treatment studies and am currently involved as PI or Co-PI on three additonal awards all focused on treatment interventions for eating disorders. Despite the relative frequency of anorexia nervosa (prevalence estimated at 0.48-0.7% among adolescents)and bulimia nervosa (estimated prevalence 3% in adolescents), little systematic research has been conducted in effective treatments for these disorders. My work is beginning to remedy this through the development of systematic studies of these disorders, particularly for youth.

Publications

• Classification of child and adolescent eating disturbances. Workgroup for Classification of Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents (WCEDCA). Bravender T, Bryant-Waugh R, Herzog D, Katzman D, Kreipe RD, Lask B, Le Grange D, Lock J, Loeb K, Madden S, Nicholls D, O'Toole J, Pinhas L, Rome E, Sokol-Burger M, Wallen U, Zucker N "Int J Eat Disord" 2007 : (40 Suppl) : S117-22
• Comparison of long-term outcomes in adolescents with anorexia nervosa treated with family therapy. Lock J, Couturier J, Agras WS "J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry" 2006 ; 6 (45) : 666-72
• The relationship between perfectionism, eating disorders and athletes: a review. Forsberg S, Lock J "Minerva Pediatr" 2006 ; 6 (58) : 525-36
• How do children with eating disorders differ from adolescents with eating disorders at initial evaluation? Peebles R, Wilson JL, Lock JD "J Adolesc Health" 2006 ; 6 (39) : 800-5
• Is family therapy useful for treating children with anorexia nervosa? Results of a case series. Lock J, le Grange D, Forsberg S, Hewell K "J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry" 2006 ; 11 (45) : 1323-8