Dr. Carlos Grilo

Biography

Carlos Grilo is an internationally-recognized expert in eating disorders and obesity, with a focus on the manifestations of disordered eating. His secondary research interests include psychopathology, personality disorders, addictions, and the sociocultural contexts of functioning. Currently, Grilo's work involves conducting controlled treatment studies that test behavioral and cognitive-behavioral treatments, guided self-help scalable treatments, and pharmacological interventions for eating and weight disorders across diverse patient groups and settings, including bariatric surgery. His ongoing randomized controlled trials utilize adaptive, "SMART" stepped-care designs for binge-eating disorder and obesity. Grilo's collaborative work is interdisciplinary, integrating laboratory and neurobiological methods, with a growing emphasis on epidemiological longitudinal outcome studies and health disparities. He has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for 30 years, serving as the Principal Investigator on 20 NIH grants. Grilo has received the K24 Mid-Career Investigator Award for his work in Eating and Weight Disorders, reflecting his commitment to training and mentoring in clinical research. He has been actively involved in psychology training programs at Yale since 1993, including coordinating pre-doctoral and postdoctoral training programs.

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