Christina Wierenga, Ph.D., is a Professor and Clinical Neuropsychologist in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego. She is a Fellow of Division 40 (Neuropsychology) of the American Psychological Association (APA), a Fellow of the Academy of Eating Disorders and a Member of the Eating Disorders Research Society. She is an expert in the neurobiology of eating disorders and is the Director of the Research at the UC San Diego Eating Disorders Center for Treatment and Research, where she investigates cognitive, behavioral and brain mechanisms underlying symptom expression in eating disorders, utilizing neuropsychological, neuroimaging and computational neuroscience approaches, to guide development of neurobiologically-informed treatments. This has led to the co-development of Temperament Based Therapy with Support (TBT-S). She also leads a research program evaluating eating disorder treatment outcomes at higher level of care. She has published numerous journal articles and two books, including the Handbook of the Neurobiology of Eating Disorders. She has received grants from multiple agencies including the National Institutes of Health, National Eating Disorders Association, and the Department of Veterans Affairs, and has served in leadership roles across several international organizations, including the Academy of Eating Disorders. As a CA licensed clinical psychologist she has been working with adolescents and adults with eating disorders for over a decade. She also teaches and supervises graduate students, interns, and postdoctoral fellows and is Co-Director of the UCSD/VA Psychology Internship Training Program.