Diane Klein, MD
Research Psychiatrist

Dr. Diane Klein is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, and a clinical research psychiatrist with the Eating Disorders Research Unit at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Klein received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from Harvard University and her medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She completed residency training in Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and a Research Fellowship in Affective, Anxiety and Related Disorders at Columbia University, which was conducted with the Eating Disorders Research Unit. Dr. Klein's research consists of translational studies in eating disorders. Her current funding includes a grant from NARSAD to study exercise behavior and depressive symptoms in Anorexia Nervosa, and a K23 grant award from the NIMH to apply paradigms used in addictions and feeding neuroscience, to the study of eating behavior in eating disorders.


Selected Publications:
Klein DA & Walsh BT. Eating disorders. International Review of Psychiatry. 2003 Aug;15(3):205-16.

Klein DA & Walsh BT. Eating disorders: clinical features and pathophysiology. Physiology and Behavior. 2004 Apr;81(2):359-74.

Klein DA, Bennett AS, Schebendach JS, Foltin RW, Devlin MJ, & Walsh BT. Exercise "addiction" in anorexia nervosa: model development and pilot data. CNS Spectrums. 2004 Jul;9(7):531-7.