Daniel Le Grange, PhD

Daniel Le Grange, PhD, is a professor of children’s health at UCSF Benioff. He’s also the Eating Disorders Director at the University of California’s Department of Psychiatry. He is also Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at The University of Chicago Medicine. He received his doctorate at the Institute of Psychiatry at the University of London and trained in family-based treatment (FBT) for adolescent anorexia nervosa (AN) at the Maudsley Hospital in London. He went on to conduct the first randomized controlled study that compared two forms of FBT for adolescent AN. He introduced FBT to his colleagues in the United States during a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine (1994-1995).

After completing this fellowship, Dr. Le Grange was research assistant professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook before joining The University of Chicago as assistant professor. His primary research and clinical interests are treatment studies for pediatric eating disorders. He has devoted his career to the development and dissemination of psychosocial treatments for this patient population.