AED Honors and Awards
The Meehan/Hartley Leadership Award for Public Service and/or Advocacy
This award honors an individual who, over a sustained period of time ( i.e., 5 years or more) has significantly advanced the field of eating disorders through her/his impact on public policy, government advocacy or service to the community. It is the highest award conferred by the Academy.
2018 | Claire Mysko
2017 | Katrina Velasquez, JD, MA
2016 | June Alexander, PhD
2015 | Chevese Turner
2014 | Laura Collins, MS
2013 | Karine Berthou
2012 | Mary Beth Krohel
2011 | Cynthia Bulik, PhD, FAED
2010 | Mary Tantillo, PhD, FAED
2008 | Susan Ringwood, BA, FAED
2007 | Kitty Westin, MA, LP & Claire Vickery
2006 | Michael Levine, PhD, FAED
2005 | David Herzog, MD
2004 | J Armando Barriguete, MD, PhD, FAED; Fabian Melamed;
Ovidio Bermudez, MD, FAED; Paulo P.P Machado, PhD, FAED;
and Fernando Ferndandez-Aranda, PhD, FAED
2003 | Craig Johnson, PhD, CEDS, FAED
2002 | Patricia Santucci, MD, FAED
2000 | Patricia Hartley, PhD
1996 | Pat Howe Tilton
1994 | Vivian Meehan, RN, DSc
Leadership Award for Clinical, Administrative or Educational Service
This award honors contributions made by the awardee to the clinical care of those individuals suffering with an eating disorder, other than those whom the awardee has treated directly. Such an individual would have to have demonstrated sustained leadership either through administrative (i.e., innovative new service delivery), educational, or clinical contributions to the field that positively impacted the treatment and well-being of individuals with eating disorders within the awardee’s own nation or internationally.
2018 | Stephen Wonderlich, PhD, FAED
2017 | Andreas Karwautz, MD
2016 | Evelyn Attia, MD, FAED
2015 | Eric van Furth, PhD, FAED
2014 | Richard Kreipe, MD
2013 | Debbie Katzman, MD
2012 | Rachel Bryant-Waugh, DPhil, MSc
2011 | Judy Banker, MA, LLP, FAED
2010 | Howard Steiger, PhD
2009 | Ulrike Schmidt, MRCPsych Dr. Med. Ph.D
2008 | Ron Thompson, PhD, FAED; Roberta Sherman, PhD, FAED
2007 | Pat Fallon, PhD, FAED
2006 | Michael Strober, PhD, FAED
2005 | Robert Palmer, PhD
Leadership Award in Research
This award honors an individual who has, over a substantial period of time (i.e., 10 years or more), used research to develop new knowledge about eating disorders that is internationally respected. The knowledge has to have had a measurable impact on the field, either by significantly furthering our understanding of the etiology of eating disorders, by changing treatment or prevention, or by fostering new lines of research.
2018 | Anne E. Becker, MD, PhD, FAED
2017 | C. Barr Taylor, MD
2016 | Kelly L. Klump, PhD, FAED
2015 | Fernando Fernández-Aranda, PhD, FAED
2014 | Daniel Le Grange and Jim Lock, PhD, MD
2013 | Susan Paxton, PhD
2012 | Stephen Touyz, PhD, FAPS, FAED
2011 | Hans Hoek, MD, PhD
2010 | Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, PhD, MPH, RD
2009 | Steve Wonderlich, PhD
2008 | G. Terrence Wilson, PhD
2007 | Manfred Fichter, MD, PhD
2006 | Cynthia Bulik, PhD, FAED
2005 | Ruth Striegel-Moore, PhD, FAED
2004 | Janet Treasure, OBE, MD, FRCP, FAED
2003 | B. Timothy Walsh, MD
2002 | Christopher Fairburn, MD
2000 | W. Stewart Agras, MD
1998 | Walter Kaye, MD
1995 | James Mitchell, MD
Lifetime Achievement Award
In addition, the Board may decide periodically to recognize a senior individual in the field for her/his lifetime contributions to the Academy or to the field in general. It is not expected that this award will be given annually, but only under exceptional circumstances.
2018 | Ruth Weissman, PhD, FAED
2017 | Marsha Marcus, PhD
2016 | Walter H. Kaye, MD, FAED
2015 | Christopher Fairburn, MD
2014 | Janet Treasure, OBE, MD, FRCP, FAED
2013 | Terry Wilson, PhD
2012 | James Mitchell, MD
2011 | Bryan Lask, FRCPhysch
2010 | Bob Palmer
2007 | Francesca Brambillla, MD
2004 | Peter Beumont, MD
2000 | Paul Garfinkel, MD
1998 | Katherine Halmi, MD
1996 | Gerald Russell, MD; Arthur Crisp, MD
1995 | Albert Stunkard, MD