About us

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, 6 July 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.

• Presentations from the Eating Disorders Section Annual Meetings

To contact the Eating Disorders Section, please email.