AngelaSarahGuardaMD

Summary

• Dr. Guarda is the Stephen and Jean Robinson Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Director of the Eating Disorders Program at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She obtained her medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and completed a residency in Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins including an externship in eating disorders at the Maudsley Hospital in London. She has been named annually in Castle Connolly’s “America’s Top Doctors” for eating disorders since 2009 and is a member of the Miller Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence. Her clinical research interests include improving rates of weight restoration and intensive treatment of anorexia nervosa and ARFID. Her translational research focus is on the pathophysiology of eating disorders including neuroimaging of opioid and cannabinoid receptors in bulimia nervosa and physiological alterations in gut peptides that may sustain disordered eating behavior. She has been the recipient of grant funding from both the Klarman Family Foundation and the NIH.

Angela Sarah Guarda, M.D.
Angela Sarah Guarda, M.D. - Dr. Guarda is the Stephen and Jean Robinson Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at The Johns Hopk...