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Timothy D. Brewerton, MD (he/him/his)

Affiliate Professor
Medical University of South Carolina
Isle Of Palms, South Carolina, United States

Dr. Brewerton is Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston, where he has a private practice and conducts research. He is currently Senior Clinical Research Consultant for SunCloud Health, Senior Clinical Advisor for Eating Recovery Center Pathlight Behavioral Health Centers, and Senior Research Consultant for Monte Nido & Affiliates. He is board certified in general, child/adolescent and forensic psychiatry, and addiction medicine. Dr. Brewerton received his Bachelors of Science degree from Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, LA) in 1974 and his Medical Doctor degree from Tulane University School of Medicine (New Orleans, LA) in 1978. He completed a psychiatry residency training at the University of California at San Francisco in 1982, a research fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health (Bethesda, MD) in 1987, and a child-adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina (Charleston, SC) in 1996. He is: Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association; Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry; Founding Fellow of the Academy of Eating Disorders; Founding member/former president of the Eating Disorders Research Society. He has authored >195 articles/book chapters, edited two books and presented over 450 scientific presentations at local, national and international conferences. Dr. Brewerton has been instrumental in exploring the overlaps between trauma, PTSD, dissociation, eating disorders, and substance use disorders, as well as promoting integrated treatment approaches for these potentially life-threatening disorders. He is also Executive Director of a documentary film about his first case of dissociative identity disorder and psychiatry’s (mis-)understanding of this devastating disorder and of the reality of child maltreatment (entitled, “Sylvia the Wood Nymph”). His research profile can be viewed at www.researchgate.net/profile/Timothy-Brewerton/research.

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