Dr. Wendy Oliver-Pyatt completed her training as a psychiatrist at NYU-Bellevue Hospital, where she served as a Chief Resident. Her training and experiences involve direct patient care and leadership across multiple levels of care and treatment modalities, including inpatient psychiatry, residential addiction programs (where she served as a medical director), forming PACT PROGRAMS (Programs for Assertive Community Treatment), emergency room psychiatry, public outpatient care, and private outpatient care. In 2001, she became the State of Nevada Division of Mental Health and Disability Services Medical Director, overseeing all aspects of mental health treatment in Nevada, for which she received Senatorial Recognition. She was the first woman and youngest person ever to assume this role. In 2003, Dr. Oliver-Pyatt founded her first Residential Eating Disorder Treatment program, the Center for Hope of the Sierras. This program expanded to add Partial Hospitalization Care and Transitional Living. Later, in 2008, Dr. Oliver-Pyatt went on to found Oliver-Pyatt Centers and Clementine, both nationally and internationally recognized as top programs in the field of eating disorders.