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Anne Edith Becker is an American medical anthropologist, epidemiologist, and physician. She is currently the Dean for Clinical and Academic Affairs, Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She was formerly the vice chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the founding director of the Eating Disorders Clinical and Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. She served as president of the Academy for Eating Disorders from 2011–2012.

Personal life and education
Becker was born and raised in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin. Her mother was a nurse and her father was a physician. She has three older brothers, Daniel, Terrence, and Thomas, each of whom moved to California to attend Stanford University and all practice psychiatry.

Becker attended Harvard College, graduating summa cum laude in 1983. She remained at Harvard University through 1990, receiving her MD from Harvard Medical School and her PhD in anthropology from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1990. She later received her Master of Science (SM) degree in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2005. She was also the Elizabeth S. and Richard M. Cashin Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in 2008–2009.

Becker completed her residency in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in 1994 and has remained at MGH in the Department of Psychiatry since then.

Becker is married to Eric Michael Isselbacher, an American cardiologist and healthcare innovator who both co-founded and co-directs the Thoracic Aortic Center and founded and directs the Healthcare Transformation Lab at MGH. Isselbacher is a world-renowned aortic specialist. They have three children together.

Biography
Anne Edith Becker, MD, PhD, SM. Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.