Professor Daniel Le Grange

Daniel Le Grange, Ph.D., is Benioff UCSF Professor in Children’s Health, and Eating Disorders Director, Department of Psychiatry, at the University of California, San Francisco. He also is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at The University of Chicago Medicine. Daniel is a world-leading clinician in treating adolescents with anorexia nervosa, having developed and pioneered Family Based Therapy (FBT), now regarded as the first-line outpatient therapy for medically stable patients.

In collaboration with a colleague at Stanford University, Daniel developed a clinician’s guide for adolescent AN: Treatment manual for anorexia nervosa: A family-based approach (Guilford Press, 2nd Ed, 2013). This manual is now utilised extensively at a global level. He has also contributed to over 400 journal articles, books, book chapters and abstracts.