Dr. Cortney S. Warren, Ph.D.

Raised traveling the world, Dr. Cortney S. Warren has a unique perspective on how culture influences eating norms, food rituals, and ideals of beauty. As such, the majority of Cortney's research explores eating pathology, addictions, self-deception, and the practice of psychotherapy from a cross-cultural perspective.

With more than 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and 8 book chapters, Cortney’s work appears in some the field's top journals, including the International Journal of Eating Disorders, Appetite, and Obesity. Cortney has won some of the most prestigious awards in her field, including the 2015 American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship Programs' Early Career Achievement Award; 2011 Theodore H. Blau Early Career Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Clinical Psychology (awarded jointly by the American Psychological Foundation and the American Psychological Association); and the 2010 Samuel M. Turner Early Career Award for Distinguished Contributions to Diversity in Clinical Psychology (from the American Psychological Association). She also delivered the TEDx talk Honest Liars: The Psychology of Self-Deception, writes a blog for Psychology Today and serves as a guest commentator for FOX5 Las Vegas.

Cortney is an Associate Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) and an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Nevada School of Medicine. She is also a member and leader in many professional psychology organizations, including the American Psychological Association, Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Eating Disorder Research Society, National Eating Disorder Association, and Academy for Eating Disorders.

After earning her bachelor’s degree at Macalester College in 2000, Cortney received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Texas A&M University in 2006 after completing her clinical internship at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School.

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