Carlos Grilo PhD

Dr. Grilo is an internationally-recognized expert on eating disorders, obesity, and manifestations of disordered eating. His secondary clinical-research interests include psychopathology, personality disorders, addictions, and sociocultural contexts of functioning. Dr. Grilo’s current work focuses on performing controlled treatment studies testing behavioral, cognitive-behavioral, guided-self-help scalable treatments, and pharmacotherapy interventions for eating/weight disorders in diverse patient groups/settings, including bariatric surgery. Dr. Grilo’s current RCTs include adaptive “SMART” stepped-care designs. His current collaborative work is interdisciplinary, integrating laboratory and neurobiological methods, extending across diverse settings and patient groups, and includes epidemiological and longitudinal outcome studies, with an increasing emphasis on health disparities and stigma.

Dr. Grilo has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for 25 years and has served as Principal Investigator on 17 NIH grants. Dr. Grilo received two K24 Mid-Career Investigator Awards in Eating/Weight Disorders from the NIH/NIDDK, which reflect his longstanding commitment to training and mentoring and in collaborative clinical-research activities. Dr. Grilo’s involvement with the psychology training program dates back to 1993-2000 when he coordinated the pre-doctoral internship and postdoctoral training programs at the Yale Psychiatric Institute while serving as Director of Psychology.