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received his bachelor of arts and bachelor of arts honours degrees from Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, and his PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1971. He is currently the Oscar K. Buros Professor of Psychology, director of clinical training, and director of the Eating Disorders Clinic at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
He has coauthored and edited several books, including Binge Eating: Nature, Assessment, and Treatment (with Chris Fairburn, MD) and Evaluation of Behavior Therapy: Issues, Evidence, and Research Strategies (with Alan Kazdin, PhD); published numerous scientific articles; and is the editor of Behaviour Research and Therapy, the leading international journal on cognitive–behavioral therapy.
A former president of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy (1980–81), he has received several honors and awards for distinguished contributions to clinical psychology, including the 1994 American Psychological Association Division 12 (Clinical Psychology) Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Clinical Psychology Award. He was twice a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in Stanford, California (1976–1977 and 1990–1991).
He has long been actively involved in funded clinical research on the evaluation of behavioral and cognitive therapies, and the analysis of mechanisms of change. Among numerous other professional activities, he was a member of the American Psychiatric Association's Work Group for Eating Disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual–IV, and a member of the National Institutes of Health National Task Force on the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity (1995–2002). Many of his former doctoral students have gone on to achieve national distinction in the field of clinical psychology.\
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