Suzanne Straebler, PhD
Suzanne Straebler, Ph.D. - For over a decade Suzanne worked as a Senior Research Clinician at the Centre for Eating Disorders at Oxford (CREDO) under Christopher Fairburn and Zafra Cooper. While there she helped to further develop CBT-E and investigate ways to improve access to CBT-E through investigating and increasing clinician training. In 2015 Suzanne completed her doctorate focused on this entitled: Towards Scalable Training: Narrowing the Research-Practice Gap in the Treatment of Eating Disorders.
Currently Suzanne serves as the Director of the Center for Eating Disorders Partial Hospital Program and Outpatient Specialty Clinic, Weill Cornell Medicine New York-Presbyterian Hospital. The main goal of her work is to provide and research day program treatment and intensive outpatient treatment centered on CBT-E. Suzanne has modelled the program based on the work of Riccardo Dalle Grave. In addition, she provides expert training and supervision in CBT-E and hosts an online peer support supervision group. Together with Rebecca Murphy, Suzanne founded and co-chairs the CBT for eating disorders special interest group for the Academy of Eating Disorders.
