INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
(partial list)

UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, Psychiatry Residency Lecture Series.   2024.  "Evaluation and Management of Disordered Eating Behaviors."

UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience, Psychiatry Residency Didactic Curriculum.   2017-2023.  "Introduction to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Eating Disorders."
 
UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience, Psychiatry Residency Didactic Curriculum.   2019-2023.  "Understanding Eating Disorder Complexities: from Explanatory Theories of Dysfunctional Thoughts/Behaviors to Individualized Treatment Strategies to Advanced Medication Management. 

University of Southern California, Psychiatry Residency Training Program. 2014-2020. "Identifying and Treating Eating Behavior Dysregulation."
 
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Gastroenterology Service Grand Rounds.  April, 2016.  "Recognizing and Treating Disordered Eating and Underlying Psychopathology in Patients with Gastrointestinal Complaints."
 
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Outpatient Morning Report.  February, 2014.  "UCLA Internal Medicine Case Conference on Eating Disorders."
 
St. John's Medical Center Eating Disorders Conference, Santa Monica, CA.  December, 2011.  "Out-of-Control Eating Behavior:  Some New Thoughts on Treating an Old Problem."
 
University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, UCLA-SFV Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Los Angeles, CA. February, 2010. "Exploring the Link between Eating Behavior Dyscontrol and Mental Illness."
 
California Institute of Food and Agricultural Research (CIFAR) Conference XVII.  St. Helena, CA.  May, 2003. "Dodging Unhealthy Weight Gain in Today's Obesogenic Food Environment."
 
Western Human Nutrition Research Center Workshop:  "Exploring the Link between Obesity and Food Insecurity."  Davis, CA.  April, 2003.  "Satiety, Satisfaction, and Reports of Food Insecurity in the U.S."
 
National Foods Laboratory, Inc. Chemical Senses Day XIX.  Livermore, CA.  February, 2003.  "Sensory and Cognitive Influences over Human Eating Behavior."
 
USDA Western Human Nutrition Research Center.  Davis, CA.  November, 2001.  "Conflicting Influences Over Human Eating Behavior:  Do Cognitive Cues Trump Metabolic Signals?"
 
Keystone Symposium:  Obesity and the Regulation of Energy Homeostasis, Taos, New Mexico, 2001.  "Modeling Physiological Mechanisms Contributing to Energy Homeostasis Using Entelos Physio-Lab." 

8th Annual Congress on Women’s Health and Gender-Based Medicine, Hilton Head, South Carolina.  June, 2000.  "Fat Substitutes and Fat-Modified Foods:  Realistic Expectations for Palatability, Satiety, and Weight Control."
 
Entelos, Inc.,  Menlo Park, CA.  April, 2000.  "Understanding Human Eating Behavior - How do Internal and External Signals Compete to Drive Food Choices?"
 
Seventh Benjamin Franklin/Lafayette Seminar, La Napoule-Mandelieu, France.  June, 1999.  "Examining the Relative Importance of External vs. Internal Cues Influencing Food Intake Behaviors in Response to Fat-Modified Foods."
 
King’s College, London, Department of Nutrition, London, United Kingdom.  November, 1999.  "The Influence of Fat-Modified Foods on Present-Day Eating Behavior."
 
University of Surrey, Department of Nutrition, Guildford, United Kingdom.  November, 1999.  "How Fat-Modified Foods can Influence Daily Eating Behavior."
 
Nutrition Department Colloquium Series, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.  October, 1998.  "Using Sensory Evaluation to Study Human Ingestive Behavior."
 
Seminaire Hivernal des Neurosciences Européenes, Serre Chevalier, France.  March, 1996.  "Serotonergic Turnover in the Hypothalamus and Brown Adipose  Tissue Norepinephrine Turnover in Response to Polycose vs. a Mixed Meal."
 
Nestlé Research Center,  Vers-chez-les-Blanc, Switzerland.  June, 1995.  "Metabolic and Neural Responsiveness to Diet-Related Stimuli are Blunted in the Genetically Obese (fa/fa) Zucker Rat:  Evidence for a Central Defect."
 
University of California, Davis, Nutrition Department course on Nutrition and Disease.  April, 1993-1995.  "Nutrition-Related Complications of HIV Disease and AIDS" (lecture series).