
Shelly Bar, M.D.
Eating Disorder Specialist · Double Board Certified · Los Angeles
Dr. Bar is double board certified in Internal Medicine and Adolescent Medicine, with two decades of specialized experience caring for adolescents and adults with eating disorders. She completed her residency at Kaiser San Francisco and her fellowship in Adolescent Medicine at Stanford Children’s Health, where she also served as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Her boutique Century City practice provides discreet, individualized medical care — always in close collaboration with each patient’s therapist and dietitian. Dr. Bar practices from a Health At Every Size (HAES), non-dieting perspective and is a dedicated advocate for Family-Based Therapy (FBT) in adolescent recovery. She writes and medically reviews all of the educational content on this site.
Education & appointments
- Medical School
- Ben Gurion University, in collaboration with Columbia University
- Residency
- Internal Medicine, Kaiser San Francisco
- Fellowship
- Adolescent Medicine, Stanford Children's Health
- Undergraduate
- McGill University, Honors Physiology
- Academic
- Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
Board certifications
- Internal Medicine
- Adolescent Medicine
Areas of clinical focus include Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, ARFID, Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S), Adolescent Medicine, and Family-Based Therapy (FBT).
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Every article on this site is written and medically reviewed by Dr. Bar — evidence-based education for patients, families, and athletes navigating eating disorder recovery.
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