Team

Since recovering from anorexia as a teenager, Kristina has been on a mission to ensure that all families have access to high quality treatment. Kristina co-founded and is an active board member of Project HEAL, an Ashoka Fellow, a Forbes 30 under 30 social entrepreneur, and a Facebook Community Leadership Fellow, and graduated from Harvard College with a bachelors degree in psychology in 2014. 

Erin is a clinical psychologist, researcher, and a former director at the leading UC San Diego Eating Disorder Center. She has 15+ years experience with adolescents and adults in inpatient, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient settings and opened the first pediatric ED program. She’s led dozens of national and international trainings in evidence-based ED treatment and is passionate about improving access to quality care.

JD Ouellette is an educator turned Family Mentor whose youngest child developed anorexia in 2012; they received cutting edge, evidence-based treatment at UC San Diego, igniting JD’s passion to ensure all families have access to evidence-based care. She became active in online family support communities, writing, and began attending and speaking at conferences.  She is a board member for FEAST.

Dr. Tana Luo is a clinical psychologist with a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. She completed her predoctoral and postdoctoral training at the UC San Diego Eating Disorders Center and has experience working with children, adolescents, and adults across different levels of care. During her fellowship, she received specialized training in treating pediatric eating disorders.

Dr. Megan Hellner, DrPH, MPH, RD, has been a clinician in the eating disorder space since 2003, and holds a dual specialty in eating disorders and sports nutrition. In addition to earning her Master's in Public Health (Epidemiology), she completed her Doctorate in Public Health (Preventive Care) in 2013. Her doctoral research involved looking at the influence of dietary intake patterns on emotion regulation. 

After recovering from anorexia as a teenager, Maris became passionate about harnessing her lived experience to support others suffering from eating disorders.Maris shared her story in the documentary I Am Maris, available on Netflix, to spread the message that full recovery is possible and destigmatize talking openly about mental health challenges. Maris studied psychology at UC Santa Cruz.

Samuel Kolander graduated with distinction in research from Albert Einstein College of Medicine.  He received the Service and Research Scholarship and Dean’s Recognition Award.  He then began his psychiatry residency at Columbia University where he treated patients with eating disorders in multiple settings.  He was selected for the APA’s Leadership Fellowship and to be a chief resident.

Dr. Katherine Hill is a board-certified pediatrician who completed her undergraduate, MD degree, and pediatric residency at Stanford. Prior to Equip, she was a Clinical Assistant Professor of Adolescent Medicine at Stanford, caring for adolescents with eating disorders in the inpatient and outpatient settings. A former collegiate swimmer, her research has focused on eating disorders in athletes.  

Following residency training at Harvard Medical School and a fellowship at Stanford University, Sean honed his expertise as an attending physician for The Outlook, an inpatient eating disorders program at Weill Cornell and New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Kerrigan is a nationally recognized author and clinical educator in eating disorders. He currently resides with his family in Austin, TX

Evelyn Attia, MD is the Director of the Center for Eating Disorders at New York Presbyterian Hospital, an integrated clinical research program at Columbia and Weill Cornell Medical Schools. Dr. Attia is Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Weill Cornell College of Medicine. Dr. Attia’s research has focused on the psychobiology of eating disorders and novel treatment development for individuals with anorexia nervosa.  

Daniel Le Grange, PhD, is the co-developer of Family Based Treatment.  He holds a Distinguished Professorship at The University of California, San Francisco, where he is Benioff UCSF Professor in Children’s Health in the Department of Psychiatry, and Director of the Eating Disorders Program. Dr. Le Grange also is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at The University of Chicago. Dr. Le Grange’s research interests focuses primarily on treatment trials for adolescents with eating disorders.

Cara is a clinical psychologist with over 15 years of experience in eating disorders. She was awarded an Early Career Investigator Award from the Academy of Eating Disorders, and her research is funded by the NIMH and published in top-tier journals. Prior to Equip, she was faculty at Stanford University.