Mary Ellen Trunko, M.D.,
Assistant Clinical Professor
UCSD, Eating Disorders Program
Department of Psychiatry
e-mail: mtrunko@ucsd.edu
T:  (858) 534-8052
F:  (858) 534-6727

Dr. Mary Ellen Trunko has spent the past several years training in and treating patients with eating disorders.  She has worked with the UCSD Program for Eating Disorders Treatment and Research since its inception, being involved in planning and development of services, delivery of patient care and supervision of junior staff members.  With the Intensive Outpatient Program, Dr. Trunko performs comprehensive psychiatric evaluations, handles medication management, and leads a psychotherapy group.  She also runs an outpatient practice that involves medication management and individual psychotherapy, working with patients with eating disorders as well as those with general psychiatric needs.

Dr. Trunko received her M.D. degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Medicine, and completed separate residencies in both internal medicine and psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego.  Board certified in internal medicine, she has helped educate primary care providers on the care of eating-disordered patients through presentations and consultation.  She serves as the study physician on a number of our clinical trials, where she conducts physical examinations as well as psychiatric evaluations and psychological assessments with study subjects.  She has worked with Dr. Kaye on a review paper updating management of bulimia nervosa, and a clinical case series of atypical antipsychotic use in anorexia nervosa.

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