Anna Tanner, MD, FAAP, FSAHM, CEDS-S

Dr. Anna B. Tanner is a board-certified Pediatrician who has specialized in the care of complicated adolescent patients, in particular patients with eating disorders, for the past 25 years. Dr. Tanner completed medical school and residency at Vanderbilt University, and then remained there to serve on the Pediatrics faculty in the Division of Young Adult and Adolescent Medicine until moving to Georgia in 1999. Dr. Tanner has been very involved in advocacy and education efforts for patients with eating disorders and serves on national and international committees for eating disorders education. She speaks frequently across the United States on the medical complications of eating disorders, especially as they affect children and young adolescents, and contributed a book chapter on that topic in the 4th edition of Dr. Philip S. Mehler’s Eating Disorders: A Comprehensive Guide to Medical Care and Complications. Dr. Tanner currently serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pediatrics for Emory University School of Medicine and Morehouse School of Medicine. She is co-chair of the Academy of Eating Disorders (AED) Medical Care Standards Committee and was an author on the 4th edition of the AED Medical Care Standards “Purple Book”. Dr. Tanner is a Fellow in the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM), a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist and a Certified Eating Disorders Supervisor. She has been named by Atlanta magazine as a “Top Doctor” every year from 2013 to 2024 and named by Castle Connelly as an Exceptional Woman in Medicine and one of America’s Most Honored Doctors.