Our Staff

Pauline S. Powers, M.D.

Director, USF Hope House for Eating Disorders
Professor of Psychiatry, University of South Florida

Dr. Pauline Powers is nationally recognized as an expert in the field of eating disorders. She was the Founding President of the Academy for Eating Disorders and is currently the director of the Psychosomatic Medicine Division within the Department of Psychiatry at the University of South Florida. She is the author of books about obesity and eating disorders and has written over 70 scientific Publications. She is a founding member of the Eating Disorders Research Society and is on the Editorial Boards of Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention, Obesity Surgery, and the Eating Disorders Review.

Dr. Powers is on the Scientific Board of Directors of the National Eating Disorders Screening Program. As an active board member for NEDA , she recently served as the President for 2005 and was awarded the Life Time achievement award in 2006. She is a member of the American Psychiatric Association Committee preparing Guidelines of the Treatment of Eating Disorders. Dr. Powers was recognized as the Outstanding Clinician in 2000, by the Academy for Eating Disorders. She is the immediate past president for the National Eating Disorders Association.

She also directs a new community project: USF Hope House for Eating Disorders. Hope House strives to provide the Tampa Bay community with extensive outreach and supportive intervention groups, free of charge, for people suffering from eating disorders and for their loved ones.

Giannina A. Rodriguez

Staff Assistant