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Jennifer Derenne, MD, FAED

Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
Stanford University

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Jennifer Derenne MD is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and completed an internal medicine internship at Salem Hospital. She went on to pursue General Psychiatry residency and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship training at Harvard Medical School’s Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital Program. She has expertise in treating anxiety, depression, and eating disorders across the lifespan, with particular interest in treating college age students. In addition to her clinical practice, she is active in medical education and serves on the American Academy of  Child and Adolescent Psychiatry College Mental Health Committee.  She is currently the Psychiatric Director of the
Comprehensive Care Unit for Eating Disorders at Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, and has over fifteen years experience with the treatment of eating disorders.