Eating Disorders

Professor MA MD FRCP FRCPsych SFHEA Dr Robinson is Professor at University College London. He is also Consultant in Eating Disorders Psychiatry at The Orri-London clinic and Hon Teaching Fellow in Gastroenterology at University College London Hospital. He worked in eating disorders in the NHS for nearly 40 years. He has co-written or co-edited books on Community Treatment of Eating Disorders (2006), Severe and Enduring Eating Disorders (2009), Critical Care for Anorexia Nervosa (MARSIPAN) (2015) and Mentalization Based Therapy for Eating Disorders (MBT-ED) (2019). He is the principal author of the MARSIPAN guidance, now MEED guidance. In 2012 he launched an MSc degree course based in the UCL Division of Medicine in Eating Disorders and Clinical Nutrition, the only one of its kind. ¿ Professor Tracey Wade Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor Tracey Wade completed a Master of Clinical Psychology at the Australian National University (1992), and a PhD at Flinders University (1998). Since 2000 she has worked in the School of Psychology at Flinders University. She is currently a Senior Associate Editor for the International Journal of Eating Disorders. In 2015 she was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, in 2016 she was made an Inaugural Honorary Fellow of the Australian Association for Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy, and in 2019 she was the recipient of the Australia and New Zealand Academy of Eating Disorders Distinguished Achievement Award and appointed a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society. In 2023 she was awarded the Australian Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy Distinguished Career Award. She is the director of the Flinders University Services for Eating Disorders and conducts research across a range of clinical settings and schools, with almost 300 peer-reviewed publications. Her research is currently supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council Investigator Grant. ¿ Professor Beate Herpertz -Dahlmann Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann has specialized in paediatrics and child and adolescent psychiatry. Her Master thesis covered the association between eating disorders and depression.¿ Since 1997 she has been Chair and Clinical Director of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy at the Technical Excellence University of Aachen, Germany including a specialized eating disorder unit. For more than 30 years her research field has been the aetiology and treatment of adolescent and childhood AN. She is currently coordinating the third edition of the German guidelines for eating disorders and established the new treatment strategies "day patient treatment" and "home treatment" for children and adolescents with anorexia nervosa in Germany. Another research field is biological research in eating disorders, e.g. neuroimaging and the investigation of the gut-brain-axis. She has edited and written many international and German books and articles in the field. She is a member of the eating disorder research group of the European Brain Council. Previously she has been President of the German Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Board member of the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and of the German Society of Eating Disorders as well as a member of the expert council "Neurosciences" of the German Research Society (DFG). For many years she has been chief editor of the German Journal for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and is currently editor in chief of the Journal "European Eating Disorders Review" (EEDR). ¿ ¿ Professor Fernando Fernandez-Aranda Born in 1963 in Seville and since 2003 Fernando Fernandez-Aranda, Specialist in Clinical Psychology, has been the Director of the Eating Disorders (ED) Unit at the¿Dept. of Clinical Psychology¿(University Hospital Bellvitge-HUB) in Barcelona (Spain),¿Director of the Long-standing ED Unit (Sagrat Cor Hospital-HUB) in Martorell,¿F...