He has presented extensively to professional organizations within Rhode Island in the areas of juvenile firesetting, early
childhood feeding disorders, attachment disorders and day treatment for young children.
In the years leading up to 2013, clinicians were seeing a group of preteen and adolescent patients who shared a number of food - related symptoms, such as extreme pickiness or very low caloric intake, but who were too old to be diagnosed with a
feeding disorder of infancy or early
childhood.