About the Authors
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Dr. Pamela Carlton
is a physician in the Division of Adolescent Medicine at Stanford University
School of Medicine. She specializes in the treatment of adolescents with
eating disorders and has helped hundreds of her patient’s parents take
charge of their children’s eating disorders.
Dr. Carlton developed and directs the Adolescent Eating Disorder Parent Education and Support Program at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University. She is invited to speak at major eating disorder conferences and also consults with eating disorder programs across the country, conducting parent education seminars and assisting them in the development of parent education programs. Dr. Carlton graduated from the University of Southern California School of Medicine and did her pediatric and adolescent medicine training at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Currently she lives in Northern California with her husband, Mike, and sons Noah and Alex. |
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Deborah Ashin is a journalist and marketing communications consultant, who primarily writes about healthcare, technology, and parenting issues. A former radio producer and on-air host, she is the author of Inside Art:A Guidebook to Museums and Galleries in Southern California (Chronicle Books) and The Herb in Antiquity for the Getty Museum. A graduate of UCLA, with a master's degree in journalism and a bachelor's degree in anthropology, Deborah lives in Mercer Island, Washington with her husband, Daniel, and two children, Lauren and Evan. |