Our Team

UCSF Team

Principal Investigator: Dr. Erin Reilly 

   Dr. Erin Reilly (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She received her B.A. in Psychology and Spanish from the University of Notre Dame in 2012 and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University at Albany, SUNY in 2017. Dr. Reilly completed her APA-accredited pre-doctoral internship at the UCSD School of Medicine/VA San Diego and post-doctoral fellowship at the UCSD Eating Disorders Center, where she received extensive training in the assessment and treatment of eating disorders. Directly prior to UCSF, Dr. Reilly was a faculty member in the clinical psychology Ph.D. program at Hofstra University from 2019-2021. Her clinical interests focus on the provision of evidence-based treatments for individuals with eating disorders and their families across the lifespan. Her research interests include better characterizing maintenance mechanisms and shared features of anxiety and eating disorders, and using this knowledge to adapt behavioral treatments to meet the needs of non-responders. Her secondary lines of work focus on characterizing barriers to (a) the implementation of evidence-based treatments in real-life clinical settings and (b) the use of best practice assessment and statistical techniques in applied research settings. She is currently involved in leadership roles in the Early Career Special Interest Group within the Academy for Eating Disorders, the Eating Disorder and Eating Behavior SIG within the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, and the Coalition for the Advancement and Application of Psychological Science.

 
Research Coordinator: Kianna Zucker, B.A.

  Kianna Zucker (she/her/hers) graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, MO in 2023 with a B.A. in Cognitive Neuroscience. As an undergraduate, Kianna served as a research assistant with the Center for Healthy Weight and Wellness at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. She researched the effectiveness of a mobile intervention in improving clinical outcomes for patients with anorexia. With the UCSF Eating Disorders Program, Kianna will be assisting with an NIMH-funded K23-awarded project on understanding the neural correlates of reinforcement learning for individuals with the compulsive exercise subtype of anorexia, and another NIMH-funded K23-awarded project exploring how reinforcement learning predicts response to family-based treatment. She will also be assisting as a study coordinator for an R34-funded study examining the feasibility of a web-based training for private practice clinicians. Kianna hopes to pursue a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and continue her interests in eating disorder research and using novel interventions to promote equitable eating disorder treatment.

 

Our Collaborators

Hofstra University

  • Emily Barkley-Levenson, Ph.D.
  • Phyllis Ohr, Ph.D.

University of California, San Diego

  • Christina Wierenga, Ph.D.
  • Amanda Bischoff-Grethe, Ph.D.
  • Walt Kaye, M.D.