Alsana Appoints Dr. Nicole Garber as Chief Medical Officer

ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nicole Garber, MD, who holds a specialty in psychiatry, has joined Alsana, an eating disorder recovery community and treatment provider, as its new medical director.

Dr. Garber has cared for those in recovery from eating disorders for more than a decade. She most recently served as Chief of Psychiatry and medical director at The Meadows Ranch, an eating disorder program for women and girls in Arizona, and vice president of Psychiatric Services for parent organization Meadows Behavioral Health. Dr. Garber was also medical director with Arizona Children’s Association, a mental and behavioral health non-profit focused on children and adolescents that qualify for Medicaid.

“It’s exciting to be joining Alsana’s innovative leadership team and to be working with such dedicated medical professionals,” said Dr. Garber. “Continuing to develop the compassion-focused therapy approach to treatment will be a key focus of mine and our team’s in the coming months because we see it is proven to lead to better outcomes, enabling people to improve their overall quality of life.”

Dr. Garber received her medical degree from the Saint Louis School of Medicine. She then joined the Baylor College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry as a child and adolescent fellow and was named Chief Resident in 2012. She has also held Child and Adolescent Psychiatry professorships at the University of Texas Houston and the Baylor College of Medicine.

She was awarded the American Psychiatric Association Fellow Status in 2015 and is a member of the Journal of Child Psychiatry and Human Development editorial board. Dr. Garber regularly lectures about eating disorders at seminars and workshops for worldwide organizations, including the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals, the American Academy of Children and Adolescent Psychiatry, the National Eating Disorder Organization, the Obesity Medicine Association, among others.

“Dr. Garber’s wealth of clinical experience will help our staff further refine our innovative treatments,” said Gayle Devin, CEO of Alsana. “She shares Alsana’s mission of treating the person, not the disease, supporting the total health and well-being of those in recovery.”

About Alsana

Alsana is an eating recovery community and treatment provider with in-person Residential and PHP/IOP programs in Alabama (Birmingham and Huntsville), California (Monterey, Santa Barbara, Westlake Village, and Thousand Oaks), and Missouri (St. Louis), and Virtual PHP/IOP offerings across the United States. Their approach to eating disorder treatment is compassionate, evidence-based, and designed in alignment with the Adaptive Care Model®. This holistic method seeks to address healing in all areas of clients’ lives by integrating medical, nutritional, and therapeutic care with movement and relational therapies. Alsana serves adult clients of all genders and sexual identities struggling with a broad spectrum of eating, feeding, and co-occurring disorders. Alsana’s programs accommodate the unique needs of vegan clients and clients struggling with ED-DMT1, also known as “diabulimia.” For additional information, visit www.alsana.com.