Big Ideas In Eating Disorders

Dr. Pamela Keel is Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at Florida State University. Dr. Keel has served as president of the Academy of Eating Disorders and the Eating Disorder Research Society and has contributed widely to the field of eating disorders. Here we discuss how Dr. Keel’s work on purging disorder stemmed from her earlier clinical work on bulimia nervosa and how our existing diagnostic system fails to describe...

Professor Yael Latzer is former Dean of the School of Social Work at the Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences at Haifa University in Israel. She is also the founder and former director of the Eating Disorders Institution in the Psychiatric Division in Rambam, Health Care Campus. Dr. Latzer is also one of the founders of the Israeli Association for Eating Disorders and served for several years as its president. In this epis...

In this episode of Big Ideas In Eating Disorders, Dr. Jenny Thomas shares with us how her personal history as an aspiring ballerina put her at risk for developing an eating disorder, her good fortune in getting evidence-based therapy, and how this propelled her into becoming a pioneer in the study and treatment of ARFID.

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Dr. Michael J. Devlin is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and where he is also a member of the Eating Disorders Research Unit at New York State Psychiatric Institute. He has served as President of the Academy for Eating Disorders and was a pioneer in the development of behavioral treatments for individuals with Binge Eating Disorder. In this episode, Dr. Devlin urges us to f...

Dr. Glenn Waller is a clinical psychologist and professor at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is a past-president of the Academy for Eating Disorders, and is currently president of the Eating Disorders Research Society. Dr. Waller has decades of experience as a clinical researcher evaluating and evolving cognitive behavioral treatments for individuals with eating disorders. In this episode, he challenges therapists to refrain fr...

Dr. Hans Hoek is clinical psychiatrist at the Eating Disorders Program in the Hague and Professor of Psychiatry at University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He also holds a faculty appointment at Columbia University in New York City. For many years, Dr. Hoek served as director of the psychiatric residency program and dean of Parnassia Psychiatric Institute, The Hague, a large mental health institute with branches across the Nethe...

Dr. Marsha Marcus, Professor Emerita at The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, has devoted a significant part of her career to the study of binge eating and the development of treatments for people with binge eating disorder. She started out with a focus on obesity treatment. During the course of her work, she noticed that a significant percentage of people seeking weight-loss treatment also described patterns of binge ea...

Dr. Eva Trujillo is the founder and executive director of Comenzar de Nuevo, a nonprofit organization recognized throughout Latin America that supports the prevention, teaching, research, advocacy, and treatment of eating disorders at all levels of care. Dr. Trujillo’s treatment program receives an average of 400 first-time patients annually from 11 countries and 27 states of Mexico and serves as a model for other Latin American co...

Donna Friedman, M.S., is the founder of the Friedman Center for Eating Disorders at the Medical University of South Carolina. Ms. Friedman has personal lived experience with eating disorders, as both someone who has had anorexia nervosa and a parent of a son with an eating disorder. In this episode, Ms. Friedman reflects on her personal and professional journey of treatment and recovery. Donna talks with Kathy about her varied expe...

Dr. Craig Johnson is the Senior Clinical Advisor at the Eating Recover Center in Denver, Colorado and the Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Oklahoma Medical School. Dr. Johnson talks about how his academic career in psychology led him to the field of eating disorders and how his study in schizophrenia was the foundation to his early understanding of the field. They discuss the road and bridges that were essentia...

Dr. Paul Garfinkel is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and a Staff Psychiatrist at Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Dr. Garfinkel talks about how he got into medicine, psychiatry and then into eating disorders. They discuss the influences Hilde Bruch and Herb Weiner had on Dr. Garfinkel, prioritizing prevention strategies and messages about authenticity and not running away from hard t...

Dr. Stewart Agras is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, research psychiatrist and Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stanford University. Dr. Agras gives the backstory on how he began studying Agoraphobia and how that eventually led into the field of eating disorders. They discuss Dr. Agras’ experiences studying medicine in England right after war, measuring behavior change and his big idea of making treatm...

Dr. Ruth Weissman is the Walter A. Crowell Professor of Social Science and professor of psychology emerita at Wesleyan University and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Eating Disorders. Dr. Weissman shares how she got her start researching eating and weight disorders at a psychophysiology lab at Max-Planck-Institute for Psychiatry in Munich, Germany. Dr. Weissman highlights the work she did with Drs. Judith Rodin and ...

Dr. Chris Fairburn is a British psychiatrist and researcher, an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford and he is known for his research on the development, evaluation and dissemination of psychological treatments, especially for eating disorders. Dr. Fairburn starts from the beginning and how it all stemmed from how he just wanted to see the world be a different place. They discuss the circumstances behind the...

Dr. Kelly Vitousek is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa where she also serves as Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and is the Director of the Eating Disorders Program.  Dr. Vitousek talks about her journey toward studying eating disorders and starting out with a publication in Psychological Bulletin as a college graduate. They discuss focusing of the distinguishing f...

Timothy Walsh, MD, FAED, is the William and Joy Ruane Professor of Pediatric Psychopharmacology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University and the author, editor, and co-editor of five books on adolescent health and eating disorders. Dr. Walsh talks about how he got interested in medicine, psychiatry and eating disorders and how he learned the value in knowing what people are eating and not just what they tell you they ...

In this series, “Big Ideas in Eating Disorders,” join host, Dr. Kathy Pike, clinical psychologist and professor at Columbia University, as she talks with leaders in the field of eating disorders. We hear from researchers, clinicians, and people who have personally experienced an eating disorder. In each episode, guests share one big idea that they believe is crucial to improving the lives of people at risk for developing or current...