Kathleen Eldredge

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Dr. Eldredge received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Behavioral Medicine with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences with Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Eldredge was the recipient of the Marion Johnson Fellowship and the Graduate Scholars Award, both from Rutgers. She served as a psychologist in the Behavioral Medicine Program in the Stanford University School of Medicine from 1991 to 2003. While there, Dr. Eldredge served as a therapist on a multi-center treatment outcome study with bulimia nervosa. Dr. Eldredge also served as a Psychologist with the Pain Management Service with the Stanford School of Medicine, as well as providing clinical supervision to pre-doctoral and post-doctoral psychology interns at the Stanford Drug and Alcohol Program. She has written numerous publications and has made several presentations on eating disorders, including the use of cognitive behavioral therapy in treatment, the use of interpersonal therapy in treatment, the relationship of perceived weight and treatment outcome, the instability of restraint among binge eaters, emotional determinants of pretreatment weight fluctuation, and an internet delivered program for the prevention of binge eating disorders for at risk high school and college women. Dr. Eldredge has also served as an ad hoc review for the Journal of Behavioral Medicine, and Cognitive Therapy and Research. Dr. Eldredge is currently a Clinical Instructor in the Psychiatry Department at Stanford. She has a private practice in Palo Alto, in addition to providing clinical supervision to post-doctoral fellows from Stanford.