Margo D. Maine, Ph.D.
Co-Founder
Dr. Margo Maine, cofounder of the Maine & Weinstein Specialty Group, is a clinical psychologist who has specialized in the treatment of eating disorders for over 25 years, and is a clinical consultant at the Institute of Living in Hartford, Connecticut, and former director of their Eating Disorders Program. Her most recent book, co-authored with Joe Kelly, The Body Myth: The Pressure on Adult Women to Be Perfect, concerns adult eating disorders and body image concerns (John Wiley, 2005). Also author of Body Wars: Making Peace With Women’s Bodies (Gurze, 2000) and Father Hunger: Fathers, Daughters and the Pursuit of Thinness (Gurze, 2004), she is a senior editor of Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention and board member of the Eating Disorders Coalition for Research, Policy, and Action, and of Dads and Daughters. A Founding Member and Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders and a member of the Founder’s Council and past president of the National Eating Disorders Association, formerly Eating Disorders Awareness and Prevention, Dr. Maine serves on many advisory boards including the National Eating Disorder Screening Project. Dr. Maine served as an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Connecticut, Department of Psychiatry and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Hartford, Graduate Institute of Professional Psychology. She is a member of the psychiatry departments at the Institute of Living/Hartford Hospital’s Mental Health Network and at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. She has presented at numerous state, national and international conferences on a variety of topics related to the treatment and prevention of eating disorders, women’s health, and related issues.
