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Episode: Hypothalamic Obesity
Description: Dr. Eugenie Hsu is a clinical psychologist by profession and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two children. In 2011 when her son was 8, he was diagnosed and treated for a craniopharyngioma brain tumor: Grateful for his survival but distressed by the many challenges he suffered in the aftermath of the tumor and surgery, Eugenie became focused upon finding solutions and treatments to improve his and other survivors’ quality of life. [One particular condition, hypothalamic obesity, was especially daunting and she was compelled to figure out a treatment for this difficult-to-treat co...