B. Timothy Walsh, MD

Bernard Timothy Walsh (born 1946) is an American psychiatrist, academic, author, and editor who specializes in eating disorders. He is the William and Joy Ruane Professor of Pediatric Psychopharmacology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University.

Early life Walsh was born in 1946 in Washington, D.C He attended Princeton University and Harvard Medical School. He was also the director of the Division of Clinical Therapeutics at New York State Psychiatric Institute. He also chaired the Eating Disorders Work Group for both DSM-IV and DSM-5.

He has received awards from the Academy for Eating Disorders, American Psychiatric Association, the Association for Behavior and Cognitive Therapies, and the National Eating Disorders Association.

Selected publications

Books Next to Nothing A Firsthand Account of One Teenager's Experience with an Eating Disorder. with Carrie Arnold.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Articles Walsh, B. Timothy; Kaplan, Allan S., Attia, Evelyn; et al. "Fluoxetine after weight restoration in anorexia nervosa: a randomized controlled trial". JAMA vol. 295, no. 22 (June 14, 2006): 2605–12 Attia, Evelyn and Walsh, B. Timothy. "The Behavioral Management of Anorexia Nervosa". The New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 360, no. 5 (January 29, 2009): 500–506 Walsh B. Timothy."The importance of eating behavior in eating disorders". Physiology and Behavior, vol. 104, no. 4 (September 26, 2011): 525–529 Walsh, B. Timothy. "The Enigmatic Persistence of Anorexia Nervosa". American Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 170, no. 5 (May 2013):477–484

Chapters

Walsh, B. T. and Attia, Evelyn. "Eating Disorders". in Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (18th edition). Longo, D. L.; Fauci, A.S.; et al (eds). New York: McGraw Hill, 2011. "Eating Disorders". in Merck Manual (Consudmer Version). Rahway, NJ: Merck & Co., 2023.

As editor Child Psychopharmacology. American Psychiatric Publishing Inc; 1998. Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders: What We Know and What We Don't Know. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005. Handbook of Assessment and Treatment of Eating Disorders. with Evelyn Attia, Robyn Sysko, and Deborah R. Glasofer, editors. American Psychiatric Publishing 2016. Eating Disorders and Obesity, Third Edition: A Comprehensive Handbook. with Kelly D. Brownell, ed. Guilford Press, 2017.