Angela S. Guarda, MD

Professional Titles

• The Stephen and Jean Robinson Professor of Eating Disorders
• Director, Johns Hopkins Eating Disorders Program

Primary Academic Title

Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Background

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https://twitter.com/JohnsHopkins_ED

Clinical Trial Keywords

anorexia nervosa

Videos

• #TomorrowsDiscoveries: Understanding Anorexia Nervosa

• How We Treat Eating Disorders at Johns Hopkins Medicine

• Thinking About Eating Disorders | Johns Hopkins Experts Answer Key Questions

Recent News Articles and Media Coverage

• Should patients be allowed to die from anorexia? Treatment wasn’t helping her anorexia, so doctors allowed her to stop – No matter the consequences. But is a “palliative” approach to mental illness really ethical? New York Times (1/3/24)

• Intermittent fasting diet trend linked to disordered eating. Medscape (11/21/22)  

• I didn’t believe I had an eating disorder. But the threat of forced feeding saved my life, Stat (1/18/2017)

• Centers to Treat Eating Disorders Are Growing, and Raising Concerns, New York Times (3/14/2016)

  What to Look For in an Eating Disorder Treatment Center, New York Times (3/14/2016)

  A Daughter’s Anorexia And Her Mother’s Fight To Save Her, The Diane Rehm Show (5/20/2015)

Contact for Research Inquiries

600 N. Wolfe Street
Meyer 101
Baltimore, MD 21287

Phone: (410) 955-3863
aguarda@jhmi.edu

Research Interests

Anorexia nervosa, avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder and eating disorders

Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=vXgnf2MAAAAJ

PubMed

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=guarda+as

Selected Publications

• Guarda AS, Cooper M, Pletch A, Laddaran L, Redgrave G, Schreyer C. Acceptability and tolerability of a meal-based, rapid refeeding, behavioral weight restoration protocol for anorexia nervosa. Int J Eat Disord. 2020;Oct 7. doi: 10.1002/eat.23386. PMID: 33026118

• Guarda AS, Marinilli Pinto A, Couglin J, Hussain S, Haug NA, Heinberg LJ. Perceived coercion and change in perceived need for admission in hospitalized eating disorder patients.  Am J Psychiatry, 2007:164(1):108–114. PMID: 17202551

• Attia E, Blackwood KL, Guarda AS, Marcus MD, Rothman DJ. Marketing Residential Treatment Programs for Eating Disorders: A Call for Transparency.  Psychiatr Serv. 2016 Mar 14:appips201500338. Volume 67 Issue 6, June 01, 2016, pp. 664-666. PMID: 26974513

• Makhzoumi SH, Schreyer CC, Hansen JL, Laddaran LA, Redgrave GW, Guarda AS. Hospital course of underweight youth with ARFID treated with a meal-based behavioral protocol in an inpatient-partial hospitalization program for eating disorders. Int J Eat Disord. 2019 Apr;52(4):428-434. doi: 10.1002/eat.23049. Epub 2019 Feb 19. PMID: 30779365

• Redgrave GW, Coughlin JW, Schreyer CC, Martin LM, Leonpacher AK, Seide M, Verdi AM, Pletch A, Guarda AS. Refeeding and weight restoration outcomes in anorexia nervosa: Challenging current guidelines.  Int J Eat Disord. 2015 Jan 27. doi: 10.1002/eat.22390. PMID: 25625572

Honors

• Named annually "Top Doctor, Eating Disorders" in Baltimore Magazine since 2018
• Top Doctors: Eating Disorders, Baltimore Magazine, 11/1/18
• Inducted member - Miller Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence, Johns Hopkins Medicine, 1/1/18
• Named annually in Castle Connolly Medical LTD "Exceptional Women in Medicine" since 2017, Castle Connolly Medical LTD., 1/1/17
• Named annually in Castle Connolly's "Top Doctors" since 2009, 1/1/09

Memberships

• Fellow Academy of Eating Disorders
• Distinguished Life Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
• Eating Disorders Research Society
• Maryland Psychiatric Society