Dr. Michael Strober is the Resnick Endowed Chair in Eating Disorders, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Senior Consultant to the Youth Bipolar Illness Research and Treatment Program, and Director of the Eating Disorders Program, at the Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital, and David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles.

Dr. Strober joined the faculty of the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences in 1975. Over the past 44 years he has accumulated extensive experience in the clinical and scientific study of eating disorders and mood disorders, as well as their treatment. His accomplishments in research, service, and teaching have been recognized by the National Eating Disorders Association (he is the 2005 recipient of the Award for Excellence in Research), and the Academy for Eating Disorders (he is the 2005 recipient of the Award for Excellence in Teaching and Education, and is the recipient of the 2012 Award for Distinguished Service).

Dr. Strober has authored more than 250 scientific papers, articles, and book chapters, covering research on the medical treatment, genetics, and long-term outcome of mood and eating disorders. His research activities have been funded continuously by the National Institute of Mental Health, industry, and philanthropy for over 30 years. In addition, Dr. Strober has 11 Visiting Professorships, serves as ad hoc reviewer for 27 peer-review journals, and is one of the awardees of the 2012 Klingenstein Third Generation Award for Best Paper on Depression and Suicide, published in Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He has also served as consultant to the National Institute of Mental Health on research priorities in eating disorders and pediatric bipolar illness, and is Editor Emeritus of the International Journal of Eating Disorders.In recognition of his pioneering research on the nature of bipolar illness in youths, he is one of only two clinical psychologists invited to join the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology as a Founding Fellow. Dr. Strober is also a founding member and past President of the Eating Disorders Research Society, and a Founding Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders.