In Essence

Sylvia R. Karasu, MD is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine, an Attending Psychiatrist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, and a long-standing member of the Institutional Review Board of The Rockefeller University. Dr. Karasu is the author Of Epidemic Proportions: The Art and Science of Obesity (2019), a compilation of 101 scholarly blogs she wrote for psychologytoday.com. She is also the senior author of The Gravity of Weight: A Clinical Guide to Weight Loss and Maintenance (2010) and The Art of Marriage Maintenance (2005.) Dr. Karasu is a cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and has her MD degree from Einstein College of Medicine. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a graduate of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and an elected Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. She has been a contributor to the online medical humanities journal Hektoen International, and she has been writing monthly blogs for psychologytoday.com for over 14 years. She has a private psychiatric practice in New York City.