Laurel Mellin, MA, RD

Associate Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Pediatrics, School of Medicine, and Director, Emotional Brain Training Center of Excellence, Center for Health and Community, UCSF

Laurel Mellin, MA, RD is an Associate Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Pediatrics at UCSF. She is the founder of emotional brain training (EBT) a method of treating obesity and stress symptoms that equips individuals with tools based on an integration of neuroscience and developmental theory to decrease the frequency and duration of the stress response and to favor high-level well-being. The goal of the intervention is to alleviate the whole range of stress symptoms and promote high-level well-being.

Emotional brain training has been applied to pediatric obesity prevention and treatment and to adults to improve psychological, metabolic and physical contributors to stress and a range of health-related indices. Comprehensive programs for adults are available for depression, obesity and chemical dependency as well as short courses for stress management. The EBT Center of Excellence is a national coordinating center for research on the method.

She has been involved in a variety of obesity research and teaching roles, including faculty member in adolescent health training program, field faculty in public health (University of California, Berkeley), director of the Center for Child and Adolescent Obesity, associate director of the Tung Nutrition Center and the director of the Institute for Health Solutions. She is a New York Times best selling author of The Pathway and she wrote the National Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Pediatric Obesity. Her research interests include stress, addictions, obesity, depression and public health methods for the prevention and treatment of stress-related conditions, with particular emphasis on the underserved.

Contact Information

Ph: 415-476-3751/415-457-0905
Fax: 415-457-4551
Email: mellinl@fcm.ucsf.edu
Web Sites:www.ebt.org  and www.childobesity.com