Dr. Guarda is the Stephen and Jean Robinson Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Director of the Eating Disorders Program at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She obtained her medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and completed a residency in Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins including an externship in eating disorders at the Maudsley Hospital in London. She has been named annually in Castle Connolly’s “America’s Top Doctors” for eating disorders since 2009. Her clinical research interests include refeeding in anorexia nervosa and ARFID and treatment resistance. She is involved in an NIH-sponsored multi-site medication treatment trial for anorexia nervosa and in translational research examining the pathophysiology of eating disorders including neuroimaging of opioid and cannabinoid receptors in bulimia nervosa and physiological alterations in gut peptides that may sustain disordered eating behavior.

Education

Degrees

• MD; Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine (1991)

Residencies

• Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Psychiatry (1995)

Activities & Honors

Honors

• Featured physician on ABCs 24/7 documentary about Johns Hopkins Hospital and on the one-hour ABC News Production for the Discovery Channel Thin at Any Cost, 2000
• Best Mental Health Practitioner for the treatment of Eating Disorders, Baltimore Magazine, 2001
• Top Therapists: Eating Disorders, Washingtonian Magazine The Best of Issue, 2009
• Top Doctors: Eating Disorders, Baltimore Magazine, 2009
• Top Doctors: Eating Disorders, Baltimore Magazine, 2011
• Top Doctors in America, Castle Connollys, 2009 - 2015

Memberships

• Academy for Eating Disorders
• American Psychiatric Association
  Fellow
• Eating Disorders Research Society 
• Maryland Psychiatric Society