William Stewart Agras

William Stewart Agras is a research psychologist and Emeritus (Active) Professor of Psychiatry and of Behavioral Science at Stanford University. He normally goes by Stewart Agras. The principal theme of his research has been the understanding of human feeding and its disorders, namely: obesity, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. (See [http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/William_Agras Stanford University] )

Agras was an early developer of Behavioral Therapy. He came to Stanford in 1973. [ [http://bml.stanford.edu/resumes/agras_bio.html Research - Laboratory for the Study of Behavioral Medicine - Stanford University School of Medicine ] ]

Agras received his MD from the Middlesex Hospital Medical School of the University of London in 1955. He did a residency in psychiatry at McGill University in Quebec in 1960-1961.

From 1961-1969 Agras was a faculty member at the University of Vermont Medical College. He then served as Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi for the next four years. [ [http://www.bchealthguide.org/kbase/support/profiles/aa154058.htm W. Stewart Agras, MD, FRCP(C) - Psychiatry ] ]

Publications

* Agras WS, Hammer LD, McNicholas F, Kraemer HC "Risk factors for childhood overweight: a prospective study from birth to 9.5 years." J Pediatr 2004; 145: 1: 20-5
* Agras WS, Brandt HA, Bulik CM, Dolan-Sewell R, Fairburn CG, Halmi KA, Herzog DB, Jimerson DC, Kaplan AS, Kaye WH, le Grange D, Lock J, Mitchell JE, Rudorfer MV, Street LL, Striegel-Moore R, Vitousek KM, Walsh BT, Wilfley DE "Report of the National Institutes of Health workshop on overcoming barriers to treatment research in anorexia nervosa." Int J Eat Disord 2004; 35: 4: 509-21
* Duke RE, Bryson S, Hammer LD, Agras WS "The relationship between parental factors at infancy and parent-reported control over children's eating at age 7." Appetite 2004; 43: 3: 247-52
* Kraemer HC, Wilson GT, Fairburn CG, Agras WS "Mediators and moderators of treatment effects in randomized clinical trials." Arch Gen Psychiatry 2002; 59: 10: 877-83
* McDermott C, Agras WS, Crow SJ, Halmi K, Mitchell JE, Bryson S "Participant recruitment for an anorexia nervosa treatment study." Int J Eat Disord 2004; 35: 1: 33-41

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