Eating disorders, sports, exercise and mental health - South Eastern Division Autumn Conference 2023

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Joining instructions for the event will be sent out to delegates on the week of the event.

We are delighted to announce the following speakers:

Dr Jack Alan Tagg - Locum Psychiatry SHO

Jack is currently a Foundation Year 2 Doctor in Carmarthenshire, Wales, although by the time of this talk he is hoping to be in Australia doing an F3 in Psychiatry. Jack completed his undergraduate degree at Cardiff University where he also achieved an intercalated Psychology in Medicine degree. He prides himself on strong communication skills and always enjoy developing excellent rapport in the teams he works with.

Going forwards, Jack hopes to pursue a career in psychiatry with a healthy work life balance alongside a role in medical education where he can inspire future doctors. Jack is the current social secretary for the Sports and Exercise Psychiatry Special Interest Group and he's also a member of the Executive BMA committee for Welsh Junior Doctors, where Jack is hoping to help achieve full pay restoration.

Dr Pratima Singh - MBBS, MRCPsych, MBA, Consultant psychiatrist

Dr Pratima Singh is an experienced psychiatrist with vast clinical experience in the UK since 2004. She completed her training from Maudsley training scheme and also worked as a consultant psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS trust before moving to Hertfordshire partnership NHS foundation trust to work as a community and adult psychiatrist.

She is an advocate of judicious use of psychotropic medications, in line with best evidence and for shortest periods they might be indicated. She has also trained under Institute of Functional medicine and strives to integrate the best of conventional psychiatry with in-depth exploration of nutritional, hormonal, stress or trauma related, toxic and infectious underlying causes of chronic mental health symptoms. She works as a NHS psychiatrist and also as an integrative psychiatrist at a functional medicine polyclinic.

Dr Singh's clinical interests lie in exploration of root causes of mental health conditions and in designing psychological and biomedical protocols that consider the individual, their unique circumstances and needs.

Renee McGregor - Sports and eating disorder specialist dietitian

Renee is a leading Sports and Eating disorder specialist dietitian with 20 years of experience working in clinical and performance nutrition. She has worked with athletes across the globe including supporting Olympic (London, 2012), Paralympic (Rio, 2016) and Commonwealth (Queensland, 2018) teams.

Renee is the Nutrition Lead for English and Scottish National Ballet, providing nutritional and clinical guidance for both performance and health; Ultra X and also one of the Team Managers for The GB 24 Hour Team. She provides support to big organisations including The North Face and Asics, ensuring athletes and ambassadors understand the importance of nutrition in order to optimise performance. She is regularly asked to work directly with high performing and professional athletes that have developed a dysfunctional relationship with food that is impacting their performance, health, and career.

Katie Lodge - BEAT volunteer

Katie began swimming competitively around the age of eight/nine and, on average, trained for ten hours a week. There was a minimum of five sessions a week, but she swam for two clubs. Until the age of thirteen, when Katie's ED developed, swimming was purely a sport, a hobby. However, it became a source of punishment and maladaptive emotional regulation once she found herself deep in the throes of anorexia.

Dr Amit D Mistry - Consultant psychiatrist, Nightingale Hospital, London

Dr Amit D Mistry is a Consultant Psychiatrist dual trained in General Adult and Old Age Psychiatry. He is the Responsible Clinician (RC) for a Tier-4 specialist inpatient eating disorder service and runs a private clinic at the Nightingale Hospital, London.

Dr Mistry is chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Sport & Exercise Psychiatry group and Consultant Sports Psychiatrist to the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and ASICS Europe. He is a published book author (‘Case Studies in Sports Psychiatry’, Cambridge University Press 2021), visiting clinical lecturer and has published, peer-reviewed research in international medical journals based on Sports Psychiatry, eating disorders, exercise addiction and psychiatric epidemiology.

This event is taking place online via Zoom. To take part you will need: 

• access to a reliable internet connection
• a PC, laptop, tablet or phone
• Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge browser or Zoom installed on your PC, laptop, tablet or phone.

Please note it is up to the participant to ensure that they have the correct requirements in place prior to booking the event.

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Please kindly note, the event will be recorded, and the recording made available within two weeks of the event.

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The speakers for this event have no competing interests to declare.

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