Dr. Cheri Levinson is Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Louisville and Director of the Eating Anxiety Treatment (EAT) lab. She is also the Founder of the Louisville Center for Eating Disorders. Currently, she is Vice Chair of the KY Eating Disorder Council, which is a state sponsored council charged with improving eating disorder treatment and access to treatment in KY.

Before moving home to Louisville, Dr. Levinson was a post-doctoral fellow at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, where she developed technology based treatments for eating disorders. She completed her clinical internship at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. She received her Master’s and Doctoral degrees in the psychology department at Washington University in St. Louis. She completed her undergraduate degree in psychology and history at the University of Kentucky.

Dr. Levinson’s clinical works focuses on the treatment of adults, adolescents, and children with eating disorders. She specializes in the treatment of comorbid disorders (eating disorders, OCD and anxiety disorders) using empirically supported cognitive-behavioral techniques. Her research focuses on building new treatments for eating disorders, primarily using new technologies. To do this work she uses advanced analytics and technologies, such as individual network analysis, ecological momentary assessment, and wearable sensor technologies. She has published more than 180 peer-reviewed manuscripts and chapters and has been the primary investigator on several national grants and awards.