It is with decidedly mixed emotions that we announce our founder and chief medical officer, Julie O'Toole MD, MPH, will retire at the end of this year. First I'd like…

We just graduated an 11 year old boy from the Kartini Clinic and on his way out, proudly, he showed me a project he had been working on. He was…

When patients graduate from the Kartini Clinic I am often asked by the anxious/happy parents how they are to deal with any eating disorder symptoms going forward.  What if they…

We had a therapy dog at Kartini Clinic for many years, and when the honorable Cleo, a black standard poodle, died it left a hole in our hearts. I’ll never…

It’s lunchtime at Kartini Clinic, and patients in our partial hospitalization program are settling in for their midday meal. Joining them at the table is Nutrition Counselor Annastacia Weiss. Annastacia…

In the treatment of children and adolescents with eating disorders, depression is a not uncommon finding. Sometimes we identify it on admission to Kartini Clinic, sometimes it has already been…

Mood is a hard thing to measure, a chimera at times, hard to grasp, hard to define. Good mood, while often eluding exact definition, is obvious to the observer: the…

For many years I have been saddened by our inability to help families with a child with selective eating. This condition is described here and here.  And since, for the most…

This video shows an 11 year old boy who has struggled with classic anorexia nervosa, including fear of fat, self-denial, increased and compulsive exercise, weight loss and intrusive thoughts of…