Mary Sanders
Academic Appointments
- Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Child Psychiatry
Contact Information
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Clinical Offices
Child & Adolescent Psychology Clinic 401 Quarry Rd MC 5719 Stanford, CA 94305 Tel Work (650) 723-5527 Fax (650) 723-5531Practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
- Academic Offices
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Professional Snapshot
Clinical Focus
- Child Abuse
- Eating Disorders
- Eating Disorders, Pediatric
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
Professional Education
| Internship: | VA Medical Center, CA USA |
| Fellowship: | Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, CA (1991) |
| Doctorate Degree: | Memphis State University, TN (1985) |
| Ph.D.: | University of Memphis, Clinical Psychology (1985) |
Scientific Focus
Current Research Interests
Dr. Sanders is the Program Director of the Comprehensive Care Unit at Stanford where she teaches and works with inpatients with eating disorders. She has specialized in the treatment of eating disorders for the past 20 years at Stanford. She also works in the outpatient clinic at Stanford and is a therapist in an on-going treatment outcome study through Stanford Child Psychiatry. She has written extensively and presented nationally on the subject of the evaluation and treatment of eating disorders and also in the field of child abuse, specifically in the area of Munchausen by proxy.
Publications
- Forensic assessment of illness falsification, Munchausen by proxy, and factitious disorder, NOS. Child Maltreat. 2002; (2): 112-24
- Body dissatisfaction and dieting in young children. Int J Eat Disord. 2000; (1): 74-82
- A model for managing clinical and personnel issues in C-L psychiatry. The Department of Pediatric Psychiatry at Children's Hospital at Stanford. Psychosomatics. 1994 Jan-Feb; (1): 73-9
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