Bio
Stewart Agras obtained his M.D. from University College, London, England in 1955 and completed his residency and Fellowship in Psychiatry at McGill University in 1961. Since 1973 he has been a member of the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine. For much of his career his research interests have been in the investigation of behavior change in areas such as treatment compliance, essential hypertension and other cardiovascular risk factors, and anxiety disorders. In 1974 he began one of the first programs in Behavioral Medicine in the United States, a program that continues today at Stanford University. For the last 20-years the majority of his work has been in the area of eating disorders, with studies ranging from epidemiology, basic psychological mechanisms, and treatment.
Dr Agras has been Editor of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis and the Annals of Behavioral Medicine, and has served on a large number of Editorial Boards, in addition he has been President of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy (AABT) and was the first President of the Society for Behavioral Medicine. He has also spent two years at the Center for Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences and in addition was co-Director of one of the summer programs for promising young faculty at the Center.
He is presently Professor (Emeritus) of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, and is continuing his research program in eating disorders.
