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Wendy Oliver-Pyatt, M.D. completed her psychiatry training at New York University, where she was the Chief Resident of the Bellevue Hospital Outpatient Service. She has held faculty positions at NYU, Albert Einstein School of Medicine, and she is currently an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Nevada School of Medicine. She is a member of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, and the Academy for Eating Disorders.

Dr. Oliver-Pyatt has taught courses on the subject of food and body preoccupation to medical students, psychiatry residents, social workers, and other health care providers, and she has been actively involved in medical student education in psychiatry. She has been interviewed on television and radio, and by numerous publications such as Fitness, and Child. Features from her book will also be included in upcoming issues of Family Circle, Marie Claire, and Women's Health and Fitness.

She is a practicing psychiatrist in Santa Barbara, California, and Reno, Nevada, and is Board Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in both General and Addiction Psychiatry. She also served as the Medical Director for the State of Nevada, Division of Mental Health and Disability Services and has a particular interest also in the treatment of the severely mentally ill. In addition to other awards, she has been recognized as a "Champion" in the fight to decriminalize the severely mentally ill by the Human Potential Institute and she recently received Senatorial Recognition for her commitment to the Mental Health Community from United States Senator John Ensign.

She is married and is the mother of two daughters, Mikaela and Jada.



Contact Wendy

You can contact Wendy by sending email to:
woliver@oliverpyattcenters.com
or calling Mindful Eaters at 866.511.HEAL (4325)