Elisabet Wentz
University of Gothenburg ,Sweden
Biography
Elisabet Wentz is the manager of Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre, university lecturer (the Birgit Olsson lectureship), Associate Professor of child and adolescent psychiatry, University Hospital senior consultant at Child Neuropsychiatry Clinic, Queen Silvia Children´s University Hospital, and licensed as a specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychiatry. Her PhD thesis from 2000 was titled "Ten-year outcome of anorexia nervosa with teenage onset". Her current research includes, but is not limited to, longitudinal follow-up studies of anorexia nervosa, the correlation between obesity, neuropsychiatry and eating disorders, eating disorders within the autism spectrum, non-pharmacological interventions (including IT interventions) in cases of neuropsychiatric disabilities, as well as neuropsychiatric comorbidity in cases of various syndromes. She has had post doc position at St. George’s Hospital Medical School, London. Elisabet has published around 50 peer-reviewed scientific works as well as several book chapters. She supervises PhD students at University of Gothenburg, and at Lund University.
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