Seda Ebrahimi, Ph.D.
Founder and Director of the Cambridge Eating Disorder Center (CEDC)
Seda Ebrahimi, Ph.D. has been working in the field of eating disorders since 1986. She began her career as a pre-doctoral intern at Brown University’s internship consortium and continued on to become an assistant clinical professor after a year of postdoctoral fellowship in the field of eating disorders. Subsequently, she worked as the Director of the Eating Disorders Research Program at Butler Hospital, the Director of the Eating Disorders Treatment Program at McLean Hospital, and has been an Instructor of Psychiatry at Harvard University. She continues to provide clinical education to professionals at conferences and trainings locally and nationally.
Dr. Ebrahimi is a member of the Academy for Eating Disorders, International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals and American Psychological Association. She is also involved in patient advocacy on a local and national level.
Iva Jandova, MD
Medical Director
Iva Jandova, M.D., a psychiatrist with more than two decades of experience working with children, adolescents and adults, has joined CEDC as Medical Director.
Dr. Jandova is double board-certified in child and adolescent psychiatry. She did her postdoctoral training in child and adolescent psychiatry at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, where she was chief resident. She has been an Instructor in Psychiatry at Havard Medical School and Dartmouth Medical School.
Her experience has always been working at acute care hospitals such as Boston Children’s Hospital where she worked on an inpatient unit where many patients were diagnosed with eating disorders. Once they were medically stable, patients were stepping down to acute residential treatment centers such as CEDC, or, being referred to BCH from lower levels of care for additional medical treatment.
“I enjoyed learning about children and adolescents in my training and then I enjoyed helping them overcome the many challenges they have to deal with through their developmental stages,” Dr. Jandova said. “When you treat a population at an earlier age, such as for eating disorders, you have better outcomes for adulthood. So, I became interested in making a difference in the lives of children and adolescents.”
While Dr. Jandova has spent her career working at hospitals, she is enjoying her role leading the medical team at CEDC where she interacts with a multidisciplinary team including nurses, social workers, psychologists, licensed mental health clinicians, registered dietitians, and residential counselors, all supporting clients on their road to recovery.
“I really like the people who work here,” Dr. Jandova said. “We have such a dedicated team, and the leaders are knowledgeable and committed to customizing solutions for our clients and their families,” Dr. Jandova said. “We treat patient with all kinds of eating disorders, from anorexia and bulimia to binge eating disorder and ARFID, and the scale of CEDC makes for a homey, college dorm-type environment where clients feel safe to do the hard work of recovery.”
Laura Brien
LICSW, Program Director, CEDC of NH
Laura Brien, LICSW, a clinical psychotherapist with 20 years of experience in behavioral health, holds licenses in three states. For more than a decade, Laura has specialized in the treatment of eating disorders at all levels of care, serving all ages and genders. She earned her master’s degree in clinical social work and her bachelor’s degree in psychology and women’s studies at the University of New Hampshire.
Her graduate-level internship at an eating disorder treatment center in Bedford, NH resulted in her running their Intensive Outpatient Program. She has dedicated her career to treating clients with eating disorders in several non-profit, community health agencies and recently worked as the assistant director for a large eating disorder treatment facility in Boston.
Laura has completed training to become a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist and is a member of the International Academy of Eating Disorder Professionals and the Academy for Eating Disorders. As a skilled and dedicated clinician, Laura experiences personal and professional satisfaction from helping clients recover from their eating disorder. She is passionate about access to care for all and helping fellow clinicians identify, triage and find treatment for those in need.
Cambridge Eating Disorder Center
Move from surviving to thriving.
The Cambridge Eating Disorder Center provides individuals suffering with eating disorders a comprehensive continuum of support services focused on their recovery. Our treatment programs focus on reducing the eating disorder symptoms while promoting the development of a healthy self that encompasses both emotional and physical well-being.
