Masterclass in Binge Eating Disorder Distribution, Determinants and Treatment

Phillipa Hay, MD FAED

Professor Hay is well known for her work in eating disorders. She is immediate past-President of the Australian Academy for Eating Disorders and a current member of the scientific committee and 2011 conference committee of the International Academy for Eating Disorders. She is committed to research that results in a better understanding of eating disorders to reduce the individual, family and community burden. Her current research focuses on randomised controlled trials of interventions for anorexia nervosa and other eating disorders, as well as public health and community interventions that will reduce barriers to accessing care. Other studies have explored the diagnostic status of disordered eating behaviours and eating disorder mental health literacy in the community, clinical and professional samples. She is a principal reviewer and writer of systematic reviews internationally in the field of eating disorders for the highly regarded Cochrane Library and Clinical Evidence. This work led to selection of a review for publication in the British Medical Journal. She has also received recognition through being invited to submit articles and commentaries to Australasian and International journals, publications and books.

Allan Kaplan, MD

"Dr. Allan S Kaplan is currently Vice Dean for Graduate and Life Science Education, and Professor of Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine , University of Toronto. He was previously Director of the Institute of Medical Science. He is also Senior Scientist, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health, and Director of the Eating Disorder Community Treatment Program at Toronto General Hospital. His research over the past 30 years has focused on innovative treatment approaches for eating disorders and on the genetics of anorexia and bulimia nervosa. He has published over 150 peer reviewed journal articles, two books, 50 book chapters and over 250 abstracts. He was the Head of the Toronto General Eating Disorder Program from 1994-2006, and the inaugural Chair-holder of the Loretta Anne Rogers Chair in Eating Disorders at the University Health Network, the first endowed Chair in Eating Disorders in the world. He was President of the Academy for Eating Disorders from 2001-2002, and President of the International Eating Disorder Research Society from 2005-2006. He has been a continuously funded peer reviewed investigator since 1992, and has received federal grant support from the National Institute of Mental Health in the USA and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in Canada."

Jose C. Appolinario, MD PhD

Stephen Touyz

"Stephen Touyz, PhD., FAED is a Professor of Clinical Psychology and Honorary Professor in the Discipline of Psychiatry at the University of Sydney. He is also the Chair of the executive committee of the Centre for Eating and Dieting Disorders. He has been the Professor responsible for the clinical psychology postgraduate training programme at the University of Sydney since 1996. Professor Touyz is also a senior consultant to the Adult Eating Disorders Program at Westmead Hospital which he founded in 1988. He is a former head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Sydney. He was also the inaugural treasurer of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Eating Disorders and President of the Eating Disorders Research Society (USA) in 2006. He is a member of the editorial advisory boards of the International Journal of Eating Disorders, European Eating Disorders Review and Advances in Eating Disorders: Theory, Research and Practice. He is also a member of the Steering Committee of the National Collaboration on Eating Disorders funded by the Commonwealth Government of Australia. In 2012, he was given a Leadership in Research Award by the prestigious Academy of Eating Disorders (USA). He has recently been appointed as Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Eating Disorders."

Vash Singh, FRANZCP, MA

Warren Ward, FRANZCP

Sandi Cardaman