Mindy Solomon

Board Member - isad

Mindy Solomon, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, Denver.  She is currently the Clinical Program Director for the Eating Disorders Program at Children’s Hospital Colorado and has specialized in child/adolescent and family assessment and treatment since 2000.  Mindy became a Member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Study of Advanced Development in 2010, and has ongoing collaboration with the Gifted Development Center. Her article, “Are Individuals with Eating Disorders More Likely to be Gifted?” written for The GDC Newsletter in March, 2014, received a great deal of interest.  She has experience and expertise in the areas of assessment of gifted abilities, gifted development, program development, multi-family group treatment, family-focused therapy for eating disorders, body image, motivation enhancement and cognitive-behavioral interventions.  Research includes family correlates and outcomes in eating disorder treatment as well as novel treatments for adolescents with eating disorders.