Dr. Brewerton is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, where he founded and directed the Eating Disorders Program (1987-2001) and was Medical Consultant at the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center (1996-2001). Dr. Brewerton is triple board certified in general psychiatry, child/adolescent psychiatry and forensic psychiatry. He is Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and Founding Fellow of the Academy of Eating Disorders (AED). He served on the AED Board of Directors and is Past-President of the Eating Disorders Research Society and the South Carolina Council for Child-Adolescent Psychiatry. He has published over 110 articles/chapters and is Editor of the text, Clinical Handbook of Eating Disorders: An Integrated Approach (2004). Dr. Brewerton is on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Eating Disorders, Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention, and Current Nutrition and Food Science.
Dr. Brewerton attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge (1971-74) and Tulane University School of Medicine (1974-78). He completed a psychiatric internship and residency at the University of California at San Francisco (1978-82), and then worked for the U.S. Public Health Service at Hawaii State Hospital (1982-84). He completed a clinical research-psychopharmacology fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in Bethesda, MD (1984-87), where he studied the role of serotonin in eating disorders, and later, a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at MUSC (1994-96).
