About us
The Faculty of Eating Disorders works to secure the best outcome for people with eating disorders by: promoting excellent services, supporting the prevention of eating disorders and ensuring prompt treatment to achieve higher recovery rates and prevent complications, improving medical training in eating disorders, promoting quality and research, setting standards and being the voice of eating disorder psychiatry.
Executive committee
| Member | Year of joining | Position |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Agnes Ayton | 2019 (E) | Chair |
| Dr Ashish Kumar | 2019 (E) | Vice Chair |
| Dr Andrea Brown | 2019 (E) | Financial Officer |
| Dr Stephen Anderson | 2017 (E) | Committee Member |
| Dr Philippa Buckley | 2019 (C) | Committee Member |
| Dr Matthew Cahill | 2017 (E) | Committee Member |
| Dr David Cano Ochando | 2019 (E) | Committee Member |
| Dr Kiran Chitale | 2017 (E) | Committee Member |
| Dr Erica Cini | 2017 (E) | Committee Member |
| Dr Anna Conway Morris | 2019 (E) | Committee Member |
| Dr Darren Cutinha | 2019 (E) | Committee Member |
| Dr Rachel Elvins | 2019 (E) | Committee Member |
| Dr Kate Highton | 2019 (C) | Committee Member |
| Miss Jasmin Marchant | 2017 (C) | User/Carer Representative |
| Dr Ruth Marshall | 2019 (E) | Committee Member |
| Dr James McDermott | 2018 (C) | Committee Member |
| Dr Heather Mills | 2017 (C) | Northern Ireland |
| Dr Lisa Mukherjee | 2019 (E) | Committee Member |
| Prof. Sandeep Ranote | 2019 (C) | Committee Member |
| Dr John Roche | 2017 (E) | Committee Member |
| Dr Samantha Scholtz | 2019 (C) | Committee Member |
| Dr Jaco Serfontein | 2019 (E) | Committee Member |
| Dr Aastha Sharma | 2019 (A) | PTC Rep |
| Dr Jacinta Tan | 2017 (C) | Wales |
| Ms Virginia Turbett | 2017 (C) | User/Carer Representative |
In 1990 a College eating disorders working group was set up to produce Council Report 14 on eating disorders services in the UK.
This group led to the development of the Eating Disorders Special Interest Group (EDSIG), which was inaugurated by the College in 1995 with Professor Gerald Russell as its first Chair.
In 2006, the Council agreed that a new College section in eating disorders should be established in place of the EDSIG, and the Eating Disorders section came into being in June 2007.
In 2014, all College sections became faculties and we became the Faculty of Eating Disorders Psychiatry.
Sign in to the members' section to join our Faculty or update your details.