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Meet the Experts

Dr. Adele LaFrance

Pyschologist: Clinical Scientist Author Psychedelic Institute

DR. Adele Lafrance

Dr. Adele Lafrance is a clinical psychologist, research scientist, and certified eating disorder specialist and supervisor. She is a leader in the research and practice of psychedelic medicine in the context of eating disorders, with a focus on ayahuasca, MDMA, and psilocybin.

Currently, Dr. Lafrance is the clinical investigator and strategy lead for the MAPS-sponsored MDMA-assisted psychotherapy study for eating disorders, and a collaborator on the Imperial College study for psilocybin and anorexia nervosa. She is also co-developer of Emotion-Focused Ketamine-assisted Psychotherapy and Emotion-Focused Family Therapy for Eating Disorders.

Dr. Lafrance has a particular interest in mechanisms and models of healing, including spirituality, emotion processing, and the application of psychedelic medicine in the context of couples and family therapy. A frequent speaker at professional conferences, She has published extensively in the field of emotion and health, including a clinical manual and expert training video published by the American Psychological Association.

Professor Janet Treasure

Professor King's College London

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Professor Janet Tresure

Professor Janet Treasure is a world-leading clinical and academic psychiatrist in eating disorders. To date, Professor Janet Treasure has 44,626 citations with h-index of 115. Professor Tresure has been a principal investigators on several multi-centre studies in eating disorders and a coinvestigator on many international studies. She has mentored over 60 PhD students and numerous clinicians. She has been a member of the NICE committee for the guidelines of eating disorders twice (2004,2017) and is on the member of the committee for MARSIPAN guidelines. She is leading a European project on the value of treatment. She has written numerous books on eating disorder in particular she has cowritten books and other materials with people with lived experience. She has pioneered a collaborative approach of working with patients and their families.

Dr. Reid Robison

Medical Director Cedar Psychiatry Center for Change

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Dr. Reid Robison

Dr. Reid Robison, MD MBA, is a board-certified psychiatrist who has led over 100 clinical trials in neuropsychiatry. Reid is co-founder at Cedar Psychiatry, and serves as Medical Director of Center for Change, a top Eating Disorder program.

He is currently the coordinating investigator for the MAPS MDMA-assisted Psychotherapy study of Eating Disorders. As an early adopter and researcher of Ketamine in psychiatry, Reid obtained his first grant to study ketamine in 2011. He also led the Utah site for the pivotal ketamine study for TRMDD by Janssen, leading up to the company’s recent FDA-approval of Spravato. To date, Reid has guided thousands of ketamine therapy journeys and hundreds of Spravato dosing sessions.

As a social entrepreneur, Reid has built a number of purpose-driven companies including Tute Genomics, a venture-backed personalized medicine startup that was acquired in 2016. Reid is adjunct faculty at the University of Utah, founder of the Polizzi Free Clinic, and provides medical support and psychedelic therapy at plant medicine retreats abroad.

Dr. Carol Kan

Clinical Lecturer King's College London

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Dr. Carol Kan

Dr Kan graduated in medicine from University of Cambridge and Imperial College London. After completing her core psychiatric training at South London & Maudsley Trust, she was a BRC preparatory clinical fellow and then a Novo Nordisk UK Research Foundation clinical research fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. After completing her PhD on the genetic overlap between depression and diabetes, she is now a NIHR clinical lecturer at King’s College London. Her academic interests include psychedelics, mood and eating disorders.

Dr. Michael Levine

Professor Emeritus of Psychology Kenyon College

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Moderator Dr. Michael Levine

Michael P. Levine, Ph.D., FAED, is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where he taught for 33 years (1979-2012). In the field of eating disorders his commitment to research, writing, and advocacy focuses on the intersection between sociocultural risk factors, prevention, community psychology, and developmental psychology. In the area of prevention he has authored three books and three curriculum guides, and he has co-edited three books on prevention, as well as a two-volume Handbook of Eating Disorders (Wiley & Sons Publishing). In addition, he has authored or co-authored approximately 110 articles and book chapters, and he has presented his work throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, England, Spain, Austria, and Australia. Anyone interested in joining or learning more about the free Levine Prevention/Sociocultural Factors TinyLetter email Group is welcome to contact him at levine@kenyon.edu.