Industry Professionals On-Staff
As part of Rosewood's commitment to provide the highest care for eating disorders and co-occurring conditions we regularly partner with nationally-recognized industry professionals. These Industry professionals contribute to the development of our programs, resident and professional education and spearhead cutting-edge research projects at our centers.
Brad Lamm, BR-I, CAI
Brad Lamm is an author, teacher and interventionist best known for helping people make life-enhancing change on The Dr. OZ Show and The Today Show.
Brad is Founder and CEO of Intervention Specialists, a crisis intervention agency. He has popularized his “Invitational Intervention” whereby a resistant loved one accepts an offer of assistance after being invited to their own intervention.
In 2008 Brad founded Change Institute to help inform and inspire better, lighter lives through weight loss and smoking cessation programs. His “Blueprint to Quit: Smoking” launched at more than 4300 Walmart locations in November 2011. Change Institute sponsors WORLD INTERVENTION DAY the third Thursday each December.
Brad’s work is based on the belief that we are constantly changing, and remarkably resilient. He believes family and friends are uniquely poise to offer support, accountability and structure from a beginning point of love and honesty – no matter how broken-down or discouraged they may feel.
In recovery from his own eating disorder, in addition to alcohol, meth and nicotine, Brad’s teaching style is first-person, no-nonsense and accessible. Previously a network affiliate news anchor, his TV work today helps viewers make lifestyle interventions in their own lives, and the lives of their loved ones.
He is a Creator & Producer of the eight-part docu-series “Addicted to Food” on OWN (The Oprah Winfrey Network) and serves on the Board of Dr. Oz's HealthCorps. Brad speaks worldwide in association with The Rosewood Institute, highlighting intervention approaches to helping those suffering from eating disorders.
Brad lives in New York City with his family.
Timothy Brewerton, MD, DFAPA, FAED, DFAACAP
Medical Consultant
Dr. Brewerton is currently Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and is in private practice in the Charleston, SC area. He is also Consultant for the Rosewood Center for Eating Disorders. Dr. Brewerton retired as Professor (with tenure) of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at MUSC in 2002 where he founded the MUSC Eating Disorders Program in 1987 and served as its Director 1987-2001. He also served as Medical Consultant at the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center 1996-2001. Dr. Brewerton is triple board certified in general psychiatry, child/adolescent psychiatry and forensic psychiatry. He is a Distinguished Fellow of both the American Psychiatric Association (DFAPA) and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (FAACAP), as well as a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Eating Disorders (FAED). He is a Past-President of the Eating Disorders Research Society and the South Carolina Council for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and has served on the Board of Directors of the Academy of Eating Disorders, the American Psychiatric Association Council on Children, Adolescents and Their Families, and My Sister’s House, Inc., a shelter for women and children victims of domestic violence. He currently serves on the Assembly of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and is President-elect of the South Carolina Psychiatric Association. He completed the Grof Transpersonal Training in 2006, and has served on the Board of Directors and the Research Committee of the Association of Holotropic Breathwork International since 2008. Dr. Brewerton has published over 120 scientific articles and book chapters on various aspects of eating and related disorders, including their psychobiology, psychopharmacology, epidemiology, etiology and comorbidity, and he has presented over 300 lectures, papers and workshops all over the world on a variety of topics. He is the Editor of the textbook, “Clinical Handbook for Eating Disorders: An Integrated Approach.” Dr. Brewerton has been a reviewer for over three dozen scientific journals and is currently on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Eating Disorders, Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention, and Current Food and Nutrition Science. He also served on the Editorial Board of the Annals of Clinical Psychiatry for 15 years. He has received numerous awards recognizing his accomplishments, including Best Doctors in America, America’s Top Psychiatrists, the Patients’ Choice Award, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, and Outstanding Scientists of the 20th Century.
Dr. Brewerton attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge (1971-74) and Tulane University School of Medicine (1974-78) in New Orleans. He completed a psychiatric internship and residency at the University of California at San Francisco (1978-82), and then worked for the U.S. Public Health Service at Hawaii State Hospital (1982-84). He completed a clinical research-psychopharmacology fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in Bethesda, MD (1984-87), where he studied the role of serotonin in eating disorders, and later, a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at MUSC (1994-96).
