Irina A. Vanzhula, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Louisville, where she is an Assistant Director of the Eating Anxiety Treatment (EAT) Laboratory. Dr. Vanzhula is a Presidential Research Scholar with the Louisville Center for Clinical and Translational Research Center. Her research focuses on developing and testing scalable, accessible, and personalized interventions for eating disorders, with particular emphasis on food restriction and mealtimes as critical targets for intervention. Dr. Vanzhula completed her doctoral training at the University of Louisville, her predoctoral internship at the University of Chicago, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She has so-authored 48 peer-reviewed publications and currently serves as Project Director on multiple NIH-funded clinical trials. Her work has been supported by National Institute of Mental Health and Jesse Wright Foundation. Dr. Vanzhula combines clinical expertise in evidence-based eating disorder treatment with methodological training in idiographic and longitudinal approaches, and she is co-author of the forthcoming personalized recovery workbook.
Irina A. Vanzhula, PhD
