About the eating disorders
section
The Council agreed in 2006 that a new College Section in Eating
Disorders should be established in place of the Eating Disorders
Special Interest Group (EDSIG). The Eating Disorders Section was
born in June 2007.
The EDSIG began life in 1990 as the College Eating Disorders
Working Group. This group produced College Council Report CR 14, on
eating disorders services in the UK. This survey has recently been
updated in collaboration with the Consumers Association and a
report published in Health Which.
In the following years, the group collaborated with the Eating
Disorders Association in the preparation of their guides to
purchasing and providing services and in a large survey of EDA
members' views of their treatment. The Special Interest Group was
inaugurated at the Annual meeting of the College, in Torquay, July
6th 1995, with Professor Gerald Russell as its first Chair. It
brings together psychiatrists working in the field aiming to
exchange information and improve services for this often neglected
group of patients and their families.
To contact the Eating Disorders Section, please email eatingdisorders@rcpsych.ac.uk
Executive committee
| Member |
Year of joining |
Position |
|
Prof. Ulrike Schmidt
|
2007
(E)
|
Chair
|
|
Dr Jane Shapleske
|
2007
(E)
|
Financial Officer
|
|
Dr Jon Arcelus Alonso
|
2007
(E)
|
Committee Member
|
|
Dr Sarah Cassar
|
2007
(E)
|
Committee Member
|
|
Dr Frances Connan
|
2007
(E)
|
Academic Secretary
|
|
Dr Alan Currie
|
2007
(C)
|
Co-opted Member
|
|
Dr Sylvia Dahabra
|
2007
(E)
|
Committee Member
|
|
Dr Anthony Jaffa
|
2007
(E)
|
Regional Representatives
|
|
Dr Adrienne Key
|
2007
(E)
|
Committee Member
|
|
Dr John Morgan
|
2007
(E)
|
Vice Chairman
|
|
Dr Dasha Nicholls
|
2007
(E)
|
Committee Member
|
|
Dr Lorna Richards
|
2007
(E)
|
Committee Member
|
|
Ms Susan Ringwood
|
2008
(C)
|
Co-opted Member
|
|
Dr Paul Robinson
|
2007
(E)
|
Education Training and Standards Rep
|
|
Dr Tsz-Shan Yeung
|
2009
(C)
|
PTC Rep
|
Executive
meetings
- 4 November 2009 - Annual meeting
- 14 January 2010
- 15 April 2010
- 9 July 2010
- 13 october 2010
How to join
Membership is open to all members or associates of the College.
To join, please complete our online
application form or email the College Membership
Section.
Public related information and
resources
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Leaflets |
Publications |
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For children and adolescents:
The selection of books and materials below has been put together
on behalf of the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Faculty based on
recommendations received from child and adolescent mental health
professionals and members of the FOCUS network around the
country.
|
Interesting links
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