COVID19 and Eating Disorders: Exploring the Impact on Patients-Carers and Management Challenges

When:  Nov 10, 2020 from 12:00 to 13:00 (ET)
COVID19 and Eating Disorders: Exploring the Impact on Patients-Carers and Management Challenges

COVID-19 and Eating Disorders: Exploring the Impact on Patients-Carers and Management Challenges

Speakers:
Janet Treasure, OBE, MD, PhD, FAED,
Daniel Le Grange, PhD, FAED,
Fernando Fernandez-Aranda, PhD, FAED,
Dr. Valentina Cardi


Abstract

Join Doctors Janet Treasure, Daniel Le Grange, Fernando Fernandez-Aranda, and Valentina Cardi to hear the latest research and developments on how COVID-19 is impacting the identification, assessment and treatment of eating disorders, including the impact on the young, adolescents, and adults-carers. Our speakers will also address the impact of confinement in eating disorder patients, factors associated with resilience, management challenges, and the usefulness of e-health strategies.

COVID-19 has become a global pandemic that has brought numerous challenges to health professionals and their patients along 2020. To stop the speed of the spread of the virus, most governments have chosen to place their populations under confinement, which has implied radical changes in social interactions and the way work was conducted. The final repercussions of confinement are still under investigation, though it is expected to have a significant impact on mental health for many.

It has been hypothesized that the COVID-19 pandemic may exacerbate the risk factors for overeating and unhealthy weight gain, especially in vulnerable populations such as children and individuals with an eating disorder (ED) and obesity. ED patients have already reported increased worries about the risk of being infected with COVID-19, disruptions in their work and treatment, the worsening of their ED symptoms, as well as heightened anxiety and stress. ED patients and individuals with obesity constitute vulnerable populations who require targeted approaches. As an immediate emergency measure to address this situation, different telemedicine tools during the pandemic have been described within this population, however there is a lack of studies looking at their effectiveness and acceptability by users. In this webinar will be discussed and reported the most updated findings on COVID19 pandemic and how it has influenced ED patients and carers.

Learning Objectives:
1. To know about the impact and consequences that COVID19 confinement had in our ED patients and their carers.
2. To learn about scales that have been developed and used to measure changes that occurred due to confinement in ED population, but also in other mental disorders
3. To analyze the existing e-health strategies in ED and their usefulness and acceptance after COVID-19 confinement

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About the Speakers

Janet Treasure, OBE, MD, PhD, FAED

Professor Janet Treasure is a world-leading clinical and academic psychiatrist in eating disorders who works at Kings College London and the South London and Maudsley Hospital. She is fellow of the AED, Associate Editor of European Eating Disorders Review, leadership Research Award, and Hilde Bruch Lecture Award-2016 (University of Tübingen, Germany). To date, Professor Janet Treasure has 44,626 citations with h-index of 115. She has been a principal investigator on several multi-centre studies in eating disorders and a coinvestigator on many international studies. She has mentored over 60 PhD students and numerous clinicians. She has been a member of the NICE committee for the guidelines of eating disorders twice (2004,2017) and is on the member of the committee for MARSIPAN guidelines. She is leading a European project on the value of treatment. She has written numerous books on eating disorder in particular she has cowritten books and other materials with people with lived experience. She has pioneered a collaborative approach of working with patients and their families  

Daniel Le Grange, MD, PhD

Holds a Distinguished Professorship at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he is Benioff UCSF Professor in Children’s Health in the Department of Psychiatry and Director of the Eating Disorders Program. Dr. Le Grange also is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at The University of Chicago. He received his doctoral education at the Institute of Psychiatry and the Maudsley Hospital, the University of London.  Dr. Le Grange’s research interests focuses on treatment trials for adolescents with eating disorders. He is a Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders, a Member of the Eating Disorders Research Society, Associate Editor for the Journal of Eating Disorders and the European Eating Disorders Review. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Le Grange has been Principal Investigator on numerous randomized clinical trials funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (United States), the National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia), and private foundations (United States and Australia). He is the 2014 recipient of the Academy for Eating Disorders Leadership in Research Award.

Fernando Fernandez-Aranda, MD, PhD

Specialist in Clinical Psychology, has been the Director of the Eating Disorders (ED) Unit at the Dept. of Psychiatry (University Hospital Bellvitge-HUB/IDIBELL), Head of Group CIBERobn (Excellent Spanish Research Network for Obesity and Nutrition) since 2007, Full Professor since 2010 (School of Medicine, UB), at the same University. He obtained his PhD in Psychology in 1996 at the University of Hamburg (Germany), his BP in 1990 (Clinical Psychology) at the University of Barcelona. Fellow of the AED, Editor in Chief of European Eating Disorders Review (since 2011) and awarded with the Meehan Hartley Award for Public Service and/or Advocacy-2004, leadership Research Award-2015, and Hilde Bruch Lecture Award-2017 (University of Tübingen, Germany). He is currently president of the Eating Disorders Research Society (EDRS) and Co-Chair of the ED Section of the World Psychiatric Association (2018-2023).

Dr. Valentina Cardi

Dr Cardi is a clinical psychologist who specialized in eating disorders. She is currently Assistant Professor at the University of Padova, in Italy and research coordinator of two large randomized controlled trials on digital therapies in eating disorders, at King’s College London. She obtained a Marie Curie fellowship to investigate the use of food exposure in anorexia nervosa and was recently awarded two grants from the Medical Research Council and the British Academy to investigate the use of novel technologies (i.e. virtual reality and AVATAR therapy in eating disorders). She has extensive experience as project coordinator of large clinical trials with patients and carers with mental health problems. One example is the TRIANGLE trial, which is the UK largest randomised controlled trial in eating disorders and is aimed at providing online guided self-help for patients with anorexia nervosa and their carers (https://triangle.slam.nhs.uk). Dr Cardi has an established track record of collaborative work with mental health service users, recovered individuals and carers, as demonstrated by the collaborative development of online self-help resources for patients with eating disorders and their carers (e.g. Cardi et al., 2015; Cardi et al., 2017). In the last 10 years, she has published over 55 peer reviewed papers in scientific journals and has presented research findings in over 25 international conferences.

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