The EDRS, Inc.'s 2013 Conference was a Success!
We'll have the 2013 talks and workshops for sale soon. Until then, take a look at the talks and workshops from our 2012 conference.
2012 EDRS Conference Videos
Coming Soon! :)
EDRS Conference 2013
The EDRS Board from the 2011 Conference
Schedule and Registration
Download the conference brochure to see what we offered this past February.
Conference Location: Sheraton Sonoma County, Petaluma
745 Baywood Drive, Petaluma, CA 94954
707.283.2888
To book a room at the Petaluma Sheraton at a discounted group rate before January 6th, please use this link.
Conference Theme: "Advances in Clinical Practice and Activism: Treatment and Prevention of Eating Disorders."
Each year we put on a conference during Eating Disorder Awareness Week for eating disorder recovery professionals and community members.
Our Conference Is a Fundraiser:
The proceeds from our conference ticket sales go to the EDRS Treatment Fund, which provides eating disorder treatment scholarships to residents of California.
We are thrilled to report that our 2012 fundraising conference was a great success! Not only did we make wonderful new relationships, but we also raised $27,000 for the EDRS Treatment Fund that allowed us to award 24 treatment scholarships in 2012. The board and the fund awardees are very grateful for your contributions!
To make a tax-deductible donation to our treatment fund, visit our donation page. And to register for the EDRS Conference, download the registration from here.
Volunteer:
If you are interested in volunteering, please contact us - we are very much looking forward to coming together again in 2013!
Download the conference brochure to see what we offered this past February.
Conference Location: Sheraton Sonoma County, Petaluma
745 Baywood Drive, Petaluma, CA 94954
707.283.2888
To book a room at the Petaluma Sheraton at a discounted group rate before January 6th, please use this link.
Conference Theme: "Advances in Clinical Practice and Activism: Treatment and Prevention of Eating Disorders."
Each year we put on a conference during Eating Disorder Awareness Week for eating disorder recovery professionals and community members.
Our Conference Is a Fundraiser:
The proceeds from our conference ticket sales go to the EDRS Treatment Fund, which provides eating disorder treatment scholarships to residents of California.
We are thrilled to report that our 2012 fundraising conference was a great success! Not only did we make wonderful new relationships, but we also raised $27,000 for the EDRS Treatment Fund that allowed us to award 24 treatment scholarships in 2012. The board and the fund awardees are very grateful for your contributions!
To make a tax-deductible donation to our treatment fund, visit our donation page. And to register for the EDRS Conference, download the registration from here.
Volunteer:
If you are interested in volunteering, please contact us - we are very much looking forward to coming together again in 2013!
Presentation Breakdown
Thursday, February 7th
Anita Johnson, Ph.D.: Keynote Address, Using Ancient Wisdom and Modern Neuroscience to Treat Eating Disorders
Kathleen Kara Fitapatrick, Ph.D.: Eating Disorder Diagnoses in the DSM-5
Alix Timko, Ph.D.: The Use of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in the Treatment of Eating Disorders
Stephanie Knatz, Ph.D. & Kerri Boutelle, Ph.D.: Treating in a Short-Term Intensive Multifamily Format
Jennifer Gaudiani, MD: Medical Complications of Severe Restricting and Purging
Ronnie Benjamin, RD, MPH: Seeking Recovery: How Food, Nutrition, and the Nutrition Therapist Help in the Healing Process
Friday, February 8th
Walter Kaye, MD: Keynote Address, New Insights into Temperament in Anorexia Nervosa and Implications for Improving Treatment
Jamie Feusner, MD: The Body Image Disturbance Continuum: Where Anorexia and Body Dysmorphic Disorder Interface
Doris Smeltzer, MA: Vital Missing Ingredients in Clinical Practice: Through the Lessons Learned from a Daugther
Ovidio Bermudez, MD: Diabulimia and PCOS
Rebecka Peebles, MD: Links Between Eating Disorders and Obesity
Barbara Birsinger, RD & Ellyn Herb, Ph.D.: From Unintentional Harm to Supportive Activist: Responding to Weight vs. Health Messages as Clinicians and Treatment Teams to Empower Clients, Families, and Community
Buck Runyan, LMFT, LPC, CEDS: Insights to the Sensitive Temperaments and Complex Personalities of those whose Struggle with Eating Disorders
Jenni Schaefer: Goodbye ED, Hello Me
Saturday, February 9th
Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh, MS: Keynote Address, Parentectomy to Partnership: What Parents Have to Offer the Eating Disorders Community
Lisa Kantor, Esq. and Kitty Westin, LP: The Time is Now: Latest Strategies by Insurance Companies to Deny Eating Disorder Care and What We Can Do About It, Part II
Adrienne Ressler, LMSW: Experiential Techniques for Healing Body Image Disturbance
Elizabeth Scott, LCSW: The Body Positive: This is Beauty!
Joe Kelly and Kitty Westin, LP: Men in Families: Mobilzing & Utilizing Male Loved Ones to Support Treatment and Recovery
Michelle Minero, LMFT: Self-Love: A Radical Activist Practice
Ed Tyson, MD: Is Everything OK? How Physicians and Non-Physicians Can Use AED's New Guide to Medical Assessment to Better Manage Eating Disorders
Andrew Walen, LCSW: The Real Face of Men with Eating Disorders: Profiles from Anorexics to Bingers and How to Prevent the Development of Disorders
Carol Normandi, LMFT and Laurelee Roark, MA, CCHT: The Playful Side of Healing: Body Love Cards
Carolyn Costin, MA, M.Ed., MFT: Inside the Session: A View of Therapist/Client Interactions that Facilitate Change
Thursday, February 7th
Anita Johnson, Ph.D.: Keynote Address, Using Ancient Wisdom and Modern Neuroscience to Treat Eating Disorders
Kathleen Kara Fitapatrick, Ph.D.: Eating Disorder Diagnoses in the DSM-5
Alix Timko, Ph.D.: The Use of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in the Treatment of Eating Disorders
Stephanie Knatz, Ph.D. & Kerri Boutelle, Ph.D.: Treating in a Short-Term Intensive Multifamily Format
Jennifer Gaudiani, MD: Medical Complications of Severe Restricting and Purging
Ronnie Benjamin, RD, MPH: Seeking Recovery: How Food, Nutrition, and the Nutrition Therapist Help in the Healing Process
Friday, February 8th
Walter Kaye, MD: Keynote Address, New Insights into Temperament in Anorexia Nervosa and Implications for Improving Treatment
Jamie Feusner, MD: The Body Image Disturbance Continuum: Where Anorexia and Body Dysmorphic Disorder Interface
Doris Smeltzer, MA: Vital Missing Ingredients in Clinical Practice: Through the Lessons Learned from a Daugther
Ovidio Bermudez, MD: Diabulimia and PCOS
Rebecka Peebles, MD: Links Between Eating Disorders and Obesity
Barbara Birsinger, RD & Ellyn Herb, Ph.D.: From Unintentional Harm to Supportive Activist: Responding to Weight vs. Health Messages as Clinicians and Treatment Teams to Empower Clients, Families, and Community
Buck Runyan, LMFT, LPC, CEDS: Insights to the Sensitive Temperaments and Complex Personalities of those whose Struggle with Eating Disorders
Jenni Schaefer: Goodbye ED, Hello Me
Saturday, February 9th
Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh, MS: Keynote Address, Parentectomy to Partnership: What Parents Have to Offer the Eating Disorders Community
Lisa Kantor, Esq. and Kitty Westin, LP: The Time is Now: Latest Strategies by Insurance Companies to Deny Eating Disorder Care and What We Can Do About It, Part II
Adrienne Ressler, LMSW: Experiential Techniques for Healing Body Image Disturbance
Elizabeth Scott, LCSW: The Body Positive: This is Beauty!
Joe Kelly and Kitty Westin, LP: Men in Families: Mobilzing & Utilizing Male Loved Ones to Support Treatment and Recovery
Michelle Minero, LMFT: Self-Love: A Radical Activist Practice
Ed Tyson, MD: Is Everything OK? How Physicians and Non-Physicians Can Use AED's New Guide to Medical Assessment to Better Manage Eating Disorders
Andrew Walen, LCSW: The Real Face of Men with Eating Disorders: Profiles from Anorexics to Bingers and How to Prevent the Development of Disorders
Carol Normandi, LMFT and Laurelee Roark, MA, CCHT: The Playful Side of Healing: Body Love Cards
Carolyn Costin, MA, M.Ed., MFT: Inside the Session: A View of Therapist/Client Interactions that Facilitate Change
Here is a Sneak Peak at our 2013 Presenter Line-up:
Adrienne Ressler, LMSW: Experiential Techniques for Healing Body Image Disturbance
Adrienne Ressler, MA, LMSW, Immediate Past President of the iaedp™ a Fellow of iaedp and is the National Training Director for The Renfrew Center Foundation. As a senior staff member at The Renfrew Center for over 17 years, she has designed and conducted training seminars for professionals throughout the country on eating disorders and body image disturbance, sexual abuse, depression and women’s issues. Adrienne serves on the Board of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (iaedp™) and was the first individual to be awarded the status of Fellow in that organization. Adrienne received both her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Michigan, where she also served on the faculty in the School of Education. She is a Licensed Master’s Social Worker and has extensive training in gestalt therapy, transactional analysis and psychodrama, as well as the body-centered therapies of Bio-energetic Analysis and Alexander Technique. Adrienne has earned international recognition for her expertise on body-image disturbance in women and has had her work published in The International Journal of Fertility and Women’s Medicine and Pulse, the official publication of the International Spa Association. A regular contributor to the popular media, Adrienne has been a guest commentator on the Today Show; Good Morning America Sunday; featured in Vogue, People, Mademoiselle, Shape and Self magazines; and interviewed on National Public Radio. Adrienne provides private consultation to the spa and fitness industry. She lives in FT Lauderdale, Florida .
Anita Johnson, Ph.D.
Anita Johnston, Ph.D. is the Director of the Anorexia & Bulimia Center of Hawaii which she co-founded in 1982 and is the Clinical Director and the Founder of the ‘Ai Pono Intensive Out-Patient Eating Disorders Programs in Honolulu. She is the Senior Expert Clinical Consultant to Center for Eating Disorders at Focus Healthcare in Chattanooga, Tennessee and Moonpointe: A Focus Center for Eating Disorders, an intensive outpatient program in Knoxville, Tennessee and Senior Clinical Consultant to EATFED intensive outpatient program in Sydney Australia.
Doris Smeltzer, MA: Andrea's Voice
Doris Smeltzer is the President, Treasurer & Co-Founder of Andrea's Voice Foundation and a retired Teacher on Special Assignment for NVUSD.
When Andrea died after 13 months of bulimic behaviors at the age of 19, Doris chose to leave her elementary classroom assignment. She worked for the next ten years as a Teacher on Special Assignment with Napa Valley Unified SD working with high school students in the areas of body image issues and eating disorder prevention. Since Andrea's death, Doris has earned a master's in counseling psychology, co-founded Andrea’s Voice Foundation, authored the Gürze Books’ “Advice for Parent’s” blog, the critically acclaimed book, Andrea’s Voice: Silenced by Bulimia and co-authored Chapter 21 in the book, Treatment of Eating Disorders: Bridging the Research-Practice Gap, Edited by: Maine, Bunnell, & McGilley (Academic Press, 2010). The archives of her VoiceAmerica Internet Radio Show, “Savor Yourself…beyond skin deep” can be accessed here.
When Andrea died after 13 months of bulimic behaviors at the age of 19, Doris chose to leave her elementary classroom assignment. She worked for the next ten years as a Teacher on Special Assignment with Napa Valley Unified SD working with high school students in the areas of body image issues and eating disorder prevention. Since Andrea's death, Doris has earned a master's in counseling psychology, co-founded Andrea’s Voice Foundation, authored the Gürze Books’ “Advice for Parent’s” blog, the critically acclaimed book, Andrea’s Voice: Silenced by Bulimia and co-authored Chapter 21 in the book, Treatment of Eating Disorders: Bridging the Research-Practice Gap, Edited by: Maine, Bunnell, & McGilley (Academic Press, 2010). The archives of her VoiceAmerica Internet Radio Show, “Savor Yourself…beyond skin deep” can be accessed here.
Ed Tyson, MD
Dr. Tyson specializes in the treatment of all individuals (males & females of all ages) who are struggling with Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder and similar problems.
He is one of very few physicians in the country who has a private practice specializing in eating disorders.
He is one of very few physicians in the country who has a private practice specializing in eating disorders.
Elizabeth Scott, LCSW: This is Beauty!
Elizabeth is the Co-Founder of The Body Positive, and serves as Director of Programs and Training for the organization. She consults to secondary schools, universities and professional organizations to develop youth leadership and on-site eating disorders prevention programs. In 2000, she directly trained forty community teams in the state of California to implement the BodyAloud! youth leadership training and eating-disorder prevention program in their own communities. In 2002, she trained mental and medical health professionals in the state of Illinois to implement the program in over 525 school districts. The Marin County Board of Supervisors honored Elizabeth as a Public Health Hero in 2003. Elizabeth is a private psychotherapist practicing in San Rafael, California where she specializes in treating women and girls with eating disorders. She has provided supervision and training to mental health providers since 1990.
Jamie Feusner, MD: The Body Image Disturbance Continuum: Where Anorexia and Body Dysmorphic Disorder Interface
Jamie D. Feusner joined the faculty in the department of psychiatry in July of 2006. Dr. Feusner graduated with honors from UC San Diego with a major of Biochemistry and Cell Biology. He obtained his medical degree and completed his psychiatry residency training at UCLA, during which time he received several awards. He then completed a clinical psychopharmacology fellowship followed by an NIMH-funded psychobiology research fellowship where he received training in neuroimaging. He has published on body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) anxiety disorders and mood disorders and has lectured nationally and internationally on these topics. He is currently funded by the NIH to study visual and emotional information processing in BDD and anorexia nervosa, and has conducted and published the first fMRI studies in BDD. His research seeks to understand common phenotypes of aberrant visual and emotional processing that cross diagnostic boundaries of BDD, eating disorders, OCD, and other anxiety disorders. He is also funded by the NIH to study the effects of cognitive-behavioral therapy on brain glutamate concentration in individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder. His research utilizes functional (fMRI, MRS, and EEG) and structural neuroimaging (sMRI and DTI), as well as psychophysical testing to understand the brain. Dr. Feusner is the Director of the UCLA OCD Intensive Treatment Program. He teaches psychiatry residents pharmacotherapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy in the UCLA Anxiety Disorders Clinic, and is a research supervisor for postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduates.
Jenni Schaefer: Author of Goodbye ED, Hello Me
Jenni Schaefer is an internationally known author and speaker whose work has helped change the face of recovery from eating disorders. Her books, Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too and Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life, along with her appearances on shows like Dr. Phil and Entertainment Tonight, her coverage in publications ranging from Cosmopolitan to The New York Times and her live performances have brought a world of hope to men and women seeking real solutions.
"I want people who struggle with eating disorders to know it is possible to move from being 'in recovery' to being 'fully recovered,'" she says. "I want them to get into life and follow their dreams, not be stuck in or defined by an eating disorder."
"I want people who struggle with eating disorders to know it is possible to move from being 'in recovery' to being 'fully recovered,'" she says. "I want them to get into life and follow their dreams, not be stuck in or defined by an eating disorder."
Jennifer Gaudiani, MD: Medical Complications of Severe Restricting and Purging
Dr. Gaudiani is the Assistant Medical Director of ACUTE (ACUTE Center for Eating Disorders) and is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She oversees the clinical, strategic and administrative management of ACUTE, attends on the service and maintains engagement with the patients when not attending clinically.
Dr. Gaudiani completed her undergraduate work at Harvard College, earned her medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine and completed her residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at Yale. Dr. Gaudiani has lectured extensively on the topic of eating disorders and has been published on the medical complications of eating disorders.
Dr. Gaudiani completed her undergraduate work at Harvard College, earned her medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine and completed her residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at Yale. Dr. Gaudiani has lectured extensively on the topic of eating disorders and has been published on the medical complications of eating disorders.
Joe Kelly: Dads & Daughters with Stacy Saindon, MA, LMFT
Joe Kelly is a father, best-selling author, blogger, speaker and primary media source on fathering, appearing on the Today Show, Talk of the Nation, Fox News, as well as in Time, People, New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Parenting and dozens of other outlets.
Kelly’s speaks and teaches across North America on fathering; media and marketing’s impact on families; successful strategies for raising girls and boys; and how professionals can mobilize fathers as allies in their work.
In 1993, Kelly and his wife Nancy Gruver founded the groundbreaking New Moon Girls magazine, an international periodical edited by girls 8 to 12 years old. New Moon Girls is the only child-edited publication to win the prestigious Parent’s Choice Foundation Gold Award (seven times so far). Gruver and Kelly won Parenting magazine’s 1995 Parenting Achievement Award.
He blogs for Dads & Daughters®, TheDadMan.com and Deepak Chopra’s Intent.com —and is a contributor to Mothering.com and a featured author on Great Dads.com. He has written for Parents, Mothering and many other publications.
Joe is the author of seven books:
Kelly’s speaks and teaches across North America on fathering; media and marketing’s impact on families; successful strategies for raising girls and boys; and how professionals can mobilize fathers as allies in their work.
In 1993, Kelly and his wife Nancy Gruver founded the groundbreaking New Moon Girls magazine, an international periodical edited by girls 8 to 12 years old. New Moon Girls is the only child-edited publication to win the prestigious Parent’s Choice Foundation Gold Award (seven times so far). Gruver and Kelly won Parenting magazine’s 1995 Parenting Achievement Award.
He blogs for Dads & Daughters®, TheDadMan.com and Deepak Chopra’s Intent.com —and is a contributor to Mothering.com and a featured author on Great Dads.com. He has written for Parents, Mothering and many other publications.
Joe is the author of seven books:
- Dads and Daughters®: How to Inspire, Understand and Support Your Daughter
- The Dads & Daughters® Togetherness Guide: 54 Fun Activities to Help Build a Great Relationship
- The Pocket Idiot’s Guide to Being an Expectant Father
- The Pocket Idiot’s Guide to Being a New Dad
- The Body Myth: Adult Women and the Pressure to Be Perfect with Dr. Margo Maine
- Clean: A New Generation in Recovery Speaks Out with Chris Beckman
- The Positive Attitude Development Guide with Lyle Wildes (Fall 2008)
Stacy Saindon, MA, LMFT: Dads & Daughters with Joe Kelly
Stacy Saindon holds her license in Marriage and Family Therapy and a Masters of Arts Degree in Psycho-therapy and Counseling. She is the Family Services Coordinator at The Emily Program, which is an Eating Disorder Clinic in St. Paul, Minnesota. Stacy takes a systems approach to healing the mind, body and spirit. She provides an array of individual, family, couple and group modalities. She co-facilitates a Compulsive Overeating Intensive Outpatient Program, as well as an Adolescent and Family Intensive Program. She also co-facilitates the following outpatient groups: Creative Arts and Sexual Healing and Yoga & Body Image. Stacy is a state approved Marriage and Family Therapist Supervisor, as well as pursuing her American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy Supervisory Designation. She received her Bachelor’s in Family Social Science from the University of Minnesota and her Master’s in Psychotherapy and Counseling, with a focus on Marriage and Family Therapy from the Alfred Adler Graduate School in Richfield, Minnesota. She believes that healing and insight lie in the intersection between self and others. Stacy finds it highly rewarding to witness and navigate towards this sacred space.
Kathleen Kara Fitapatrick, Ph.D.: Eating Disorder Diagnoses in the DSM-5
Dr. Kathleen Kara Fitzpatrick has worked in the Eating Disorders Clinic at Stanford for four years. She specializes in neuropsychological assessment of eating disorders and evaluation of treatments for children and adolescents. Her current research interests focus on the development of Cognitive Remediation Therapy (CRT), which utilizes neuropsychological components to address cognitive and behavioral difficulties associated with eating disorders. In addition to working as a therapist on research treatment studies, she also provides supervision to therapists on different treatment modalities.
Laura Collins: Families Empowered and Supporting Treatment of Eating Disorders
Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh, M.S. is a writer from Virginia who became an activist for improved eating disorder treatment after the recovery of her teen daughter from anorexia. Her book, "Eating With Your Anorexic" (McGraw Hill), is a memoir of her family's experience. Collins is an affiliate member of the Academy for Eating Disorders, volunteers with the Eating Disorders Coalition and ANAD. Collins is the Executive Director of F.E.A.S.T. (Families Empowered and Supporting Treatment of Eating Disorders). She has been an invited speaker for the National Eating Disorders Association, the Academy for Eating Disorders, Renfrew Foundation, Ophelia's Place, the University of North Carolina Eating Disorders Program and Eating Disorders Coalition conferences. Collins writes a blog for the Huffington Post, and is also frequently interviewed by the media, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, BBC News, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, NPR and the Los Angeles Times. Her personal blog appears at LaurasSoapBox.net.
Lisa Kantor, JD
Lisa Kantor, a Los Angeles lawyer and partner in Kantor & Kantor LLP, represents people denied health benefits for treatment of both physical and mental illnesses. Most recently, Ms. Kantor has focused her efforts litigating insurance company denials of coverage for residential treatment of eating disorders. Kantor & Kantor is the only law firm in the country with a distinct eating disorder practice staffed with lawyers and other professionals experienced in the specific needs of people who have been denied benefits for eating disorder treatment.
Ms. Kantor sues health plans that refuse coverage, or agree to pay for treatment for a short period of time, forcing patients to be discharged before their health is restored. In 2007, she won the first published eating disorder decision in California in which the court applied the state’s mental health parity law to beneficiaries who sought treatment outside California. In August 2012, she won the first federal court ruling that determined health plans must pay for all medically necessary treatment for mental illnesses, including residential treatment.
For her achievements, Ms. Kantor was named a Top Woman Lawyer by the Los Angeles Daily Journal and an Attorney of the Year by the San Francisco Recorder. She received a “Special Recognition” award from the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals Foundation and a California Women Lawyers’ Woman of Distinction Award.
Ms. Kantor sues health plans that refuse coverage, or agree to pay for treatment for a short period of time, forcing patients to be discharged before their health is restored. In 2007, she won the first published eating disorder decision in California in which the court applied the state’s mental health parity law to beneficiaries who sought treatment outside California. In August 2012, she won the first federal court ruling that determined health plans must pay for all medically necessary treatment for mental illnesses, including residential treatment.
For her achievements, Ms. Kantor was named a Top Woman Lawyer by the Los Angeles Daily Journal and an Attorney of the Year by the San Francisco Recorder. She received a “Special Recognition” award from the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals Foundation and a California Women Lawyers’ Woman of Distinction Award.
Kitty Westin
Kitty Westin is the Advocacy Director of The Emily Program Foundation and the founder and former president of the Anna Westin Foundation, which in 2008 closed and transferred its assets to The Emily Program Foundation. In addition to her work with The Emily Program Foundation, she serves on the Board of the Eating Disorders Coalition for Research, Policy and Action, headquartered in Washington, D.C.
Michelle Minero, LMFT: Self-Love: A Radical Activist Practice
Michelle Minero, the founder and former director of Eating Disorder Recovery Support, Inc. (EDRS, Inc.) has been a licensed marriage family therapist (MFT) since 1994. Prior to 1994, as an intern, she offered women support groups, which focused on body image and eating disorders. She created Quest, an intensive outpatient eating disorder program in 2000 for PsychStrategies, Inc and founded EDRS, Inc. in 2005.
In 2011, Michelle co-founded the Love Warrior Community (LWC), an online community focused on self-love and body acceptance that uses creativity for healing and exploration. Michelle also co-founded the blog, Self-Love Warrior, a place for people to submit and read others' self-love writing.
Michelle has a private practice in Petaluma, California where she enjoys working mainly with individual clients with eating disorders. She also works with individuals, couples, groups and families on a wide spectrum of concerns. She leads retreats and workshops focused on body acceptance, and facilitates SoulCollage workshops for healing professionals every third Saturday of the month. Michelle's book, Self-Love Diet: The Only Diet that Works, will be published by 2013.
In 2011, Michelle co-founded the Love Warrior Community (LWC), an online community focused on self-love and body acceptance that uses creativity for healing and exploration. Michelle also co-founded the blog, Self-Love Warrior, a place for people to submit and read others' self-love writing.
Michelle has a private practice in Petaluma, California where she enjoys working mainly with individual clients with eating disorders. She also works with individuals, couples, groups and families on a wide spectrum of concerns. She leads retreats and workshops focused on body acceptance, and facilitates SoulCollage workshops for healing professionals every third Saturday of the month. Michelle's book, Self-Love Diet: The Only Diet that Works, will be published by 2013.
Ovidio Bermudez, MD: Diabulimia and PCOS
Ovidio Bermudez, MD, is the Chief Medical Officer and Medical Director of Child and Adolescent Services at Eating Recovery Center in Denver, Colorado. He holds academic appointments as Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. He is Board certified in Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
Dr. Bermudez is a Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders, the Society for Adolescent Medicine and the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is Past Chairman and current member of the Board of Directors of the National Eating Disorders Association, Co-Founder of the Eating Disorders Coalition of Tennessee (EDCT) and Co-founder of the Oklahoma Eating Disorders Association (OEDA). He co-chairs the Medical Care Special Interest Group and the Hispano-Latino-American Chapter of the Academy for Eating Disorders. He is a member of the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals and a Certified Eating Disorders Specialist.
Dr. Bermudez has lectured nationally and internationally on eating disorders, childhood obesity and other topics related to pediatric and adult healthcare, and has been recognized for his dedication and advocacy in the field of eating disorders.
Dr. Bermudez is a Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders, the Society for Adolescent Medicine and the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is Past Chairman and current member of the Board of Directors of the National Eating Disorders Association, Co-Founder of the Eating Disorders Coalition of Tennessee (EDCT) and Co-founder of the Oklahoma Eating Disorders Association (OEDA). He co-chairs the Medical Care Special Interest Group and the Hispano-Latino-American Chapter of the Academy for Eating Disorders. He is a member of the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals and a Certified Eating Disorders Specialist.
Dr. Bermudez has lectured nationally and internationally on eating disorders, childhood obesity and other topics related to pediatric and adult healthcare, and has been recognized for his dedication and advocacy in the field of eating disorders.
Walter Kaye, MD
Dr. Walter Kaye was recruited to the UC San Diego faculty from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he was research director of the eating disorder program, and where he received a NIMH senior scientist award.
Dr. Kaye’s current research is focused on exploring the relationship between brain and behavior using brain imaging and genetics, and developing and applying new treatments for anorexia and bulimia nervosa. He is the principal investigator for an international, multi-site collaboration on the genetics of anorexia and bulimia nervosa. He has an international reputation in the field of eating disorders and is the author of more than 300 articles and publications. He attended Ohio State Medical School, trained in neurology at the University of Southern California and trained in psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Kaye was then a fellow and research physician at the National Institute of Mental Health for seven years where he conducted research on appetite regulation, behavior and treatment for disorders.
As Director of the University of California, San Diego Eating Disorder Treatment and Research Program, Dr. Kaye and his clinical team are treating anorexia nervosa and other eating disorders with an innovative, intensive program that approaches the problem on multiple levels, including medical, psychological, psycho-educational and counseling of the family as key support group.
Dr. Kaye’s current research is focused on exploring the relationship between brain and behavior using brain imaging and genetics, and developing and applying new treatments for anorexia and bulimia nervosa. He is the principal investigator for an international, multi-site collaboration on the genetics of anorexia and bulimia nervosa. He has an international reputation in the field of eating disorders and is the author of more than 300 articles and publications. He attended Ohio State Medical School, trained in neurology at the University of Southern California and trained in psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Kaye was then a fellow and research physician at the National Institute of Mental Health for seven years where he conducted research on appetite regulation, behavior and treatment for disorders.
As Director of the University of California, San Diego Eating Disorder Treatment and Research Program, Dr. Kaye and his clinical team are treating anorexia nervosa and other eating disorders with an innovative, intensive program that approaches the problem on multiple levels, including medical, psychological, psycho-educational and counseling of the family as key support group.
