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Anne E. Becker, M.D., Ph.D. received her medical training at Harvard Medical School and completed her psychiatric residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She also received a doctoral degree in anthropology from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Dr. Becker is Assistant Professor of Medical Anthropology and of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Becker's research in medical anthropology has focused on the cultural mediation of disordered eating and body image and postpartum illness. Her book, Body, Self, and Society: The View from Fiji, explores body image and its cultural context. Her most recent research has documented a dramatic increase in eating disorders symptoms among ethnic Fijian schoolgirls in the setting of rapid social change and following television exposure. Dr. Becker now has a K23 award through the NIMH to further investigate the impact of social transition on disordered eating on Fijian girls and women in Fiji and also in mainland Puerto Rican girls and women in Boston. Dr. Becker is co-editor in chief of Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry.
Dr. Becker is also the Director of the Adult Eating and Weight Disorders Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and is clinically active in this field, seeing patients for consultation, evaluation, psychotherapy, and psychopharmacologic management. She has authored and co-authored numerous scientific papers and reviews on eating disorders.
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