The Academy for Eating Disorders (AED) is a global professional association committed to leadership in eating disorders research, education, treatment, and prevention. Learn more about AED's founding history. AED helps physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, nutritionists, academic researchers, students and experts through lived experience connect and collaborate with each other and keep abreast of recent developments in eating disorders research. AED's main event is the annual International Conference on Eating Disorders (ICED), a scientific conference that spans research and education from basic science to cutting edge emerging research in the field. ICED is attended by both leaders and future leaders in the field of Eating Disorders from around the world. The purpose of the Academy for Eating Disorders is to:

• Promote the effective treatment and care of patients with eating disorders and associated disorders;
• Develop and advance initiatives for the primary and secondary prevention of eating disorders;
• Provide education and dissemination of knowledge regarding eating disorders to members of the Academy, other professionals, and the general public;
• Stimulate and support research in the field;
• Promote multidisciplinary representation and expertise within the Academy membership and its governing structure;
• Advocate for the field on behalf of patients, the public, and eating disorder professionals;
• Assist in the development of guidelines for training, practice and professional conduct within the field; and;
• Identify and reward outstanding achievement and/or service in the field.

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Address: 11130 Sunrise Valley Drive Suite 350 Reston, VA 20191

Country: United States of America

Email: info@aedweb.org

Call 1+703-234-4079

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The Anorexia Nervosa Genetics Initiative (ANGI) is an initiative that is the largest and most rigorous genetic study of eating disorders ever conducted. ANGI is a global initiative to detect genetic variations that contribute to this potentially life-threatening disease. In total, ANGI collected biological samples and clinical information from 13,363 individuals with anorexia nervosa as well as healthy controls that were matched for ancestry and geography. Karolinska contributed samples from 4247 individuals with anorexia nervosa and 4035 healthy control individuals!. Summary statistics from the Genome-wide association study (GWAS) will be available after publication on the Downloads page of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium website.

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Country: Sweden

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Charlotte's Helix Project is an international coalition working to bring DNA genomics project to the UK to discover genetics of anorexia nervosa and other eating disorders. Charlotte's Helix was founded in the UK to honour the eating disorder advocacy work of Charlotte Bevan.  It was a part of a global effort to collect DNA samples from over 25,000 individuals who have had anorexia at any time in their life, otherwise known as #AN25K. The goal of Charlotte’s Helix was to add at least 1,000 UK DNA samples to #AN25K. As code-breakers for eating disorders, Charlotte's Helix is supporting the #AN25K challenge to chart a #genetic map for anorexia.

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Country: United Kingdom

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The Columbia Center for Eating Disorders is an internationally recognized program committed to the research and treatment of eating disorders. The multidisciplinary team has unparalleled expertise in cutting edge research, which is used to provide as well as develop innovative therapies. Designated a Center of Excellence as part of a New York State initiative, the program is part of New York State Psychiatric Institute, located at Columbia University Medical Center. The unit provides comprehensive clinical services based on best practices. Our program is unique in its ability to offer treatment at no cost in exchange for participation in research. As a result, length of stay is not limited by finances, and allows patients more time to experience normalization of eating behaviors.

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Address: 1051 Riverside Drive New York, NY 10032

Country: United States of America

Email: edru@nyspi.columbia.edu

Call +1 646-774-8066

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Eating Disorder Hope ™ is an online community that offers resources, education, support, and inspiration to those struggling with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, body image issues, and a myriad of other disordered eating behaviors. Eating Disorder Hope ™ was created so those suffering can find the help, care, support, and resources to help themselves and their loved ones.

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Email: jacquelyn@eatingdisorderhope.com

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Endangered Bodies is an local-global initiative launched by the international Endangered Species summits. They challenge the current toxic culture that promotes negative body image. Their aim is to save future generations from the misery that turns people against their own bodies. 

• Global 
• London
• New York
• Beunos Aires
• Sao Paulo
• Ireland
• Australia
• Germany
• New Zealand

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The European Chapter of the AED is a multidisciplinary group of therapists and researchers from Europe with a powerful voice in the field of academic, clinical, research, policy, media and advocacy work related to eating disorders. The group regularly hosts an annual symposium in the late Fall/early Winter.

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The European Council on Eating Disorders (ECED) is an informal, multidisciplinary network of people from all over Europe working with eating disorders in different contexts.

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Address: Suite 228, The Capel Building, Mary's Abbey, Dublin 7,

Country: Ireland

Email: europeaneced@gmail.com

Call +353-1-872 69 30

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Families Empowered And Supporting Treatment for Eating Disorders (F.E.A.S.T) is a global community offering support, education and empowerment to families of people affected by eating disorders. F.E.A.S.T. is an International non-profit organization of and for caregivers of loved ones suffering from eating disorders. F.E.A.S.T.’s Mission is to support caregivers by providing information and mutual support, promoting evidence-based treatment, and advocating for research and education to reduce the suffering associated with eating disorders.

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Address: 26 F Congress Street Suite# 117 Saratoga Springs NY 12866-4168

Country: United States of America

Email: info@feast-ed.org

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The Global Foundation for Eating Disorders is an aggregate of business leaders, researchers and clinicians and families touched by these illnesses whose mission is to eliminate eating disorders. he Global Foundation for Eating Disorders (GFED) is a consortium of doctors, business leaders, scientists and clinicians and families touched by these illnesses who consistently stay on the cutting edge of current and emerging scientific research being conducted in the field, around the world.  GFED steps in where the federal government falls short to identify, fund and realize actionable, accountable results from the most promising scientists applying the most innovative advances in neuroscience, genetics and technology for results. Funded Institutions include

• Columbia University
• University of California, San Diego
• Duke University
• Harvard University
• Icahn School of Medicine, Mt. Sinai
• Michigan State
• University of North Carolina
• Stanford University

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Address: 200 Pemberwick Road Greenwich, CT 06831

Country: United States of America

Email: info@gfed.org

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The Hispano Latino American Chapter of the AED is a multidisciplinary group of therapists and researchers from Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking areas of the world. Its active and enthusiastic members work together clinically and academically to advance education, awareness, research, and collaboration in the field of eating disorders. The group regularly hosts a Hispano Latino American Congress on Eating Disorders and several regional symposia. It aims to bring together health professionals who are experts in Eating Disorders from Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries with strictly academic objectives and free of interests to achieve cooperation, exchange of knowledge, research in practices based on scientific evidence to achieve excellence in the study and treatment of eating disorders (ADD) by:

• Generate knowledge and integrate the collective experience in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Latin American countries on eating disorders.

• Provide physical or virtual educational platforms for the promotion, understanding, exchange of knowledge, research and integration-practice in the field of eating disorders in Latin American and Spanish-speaking countries

• Disseminate, contribute, facilitate and increase the knowledge generated in the field of work with TCA through congresses, courses and workshops in the Spanish and Portuguese language.

• Advise, design and present intervention strategies that affect national public policies of each member country of the chapter to provide or improve TCA treatment services in Latin America, Spain and Portugal.

• Promote the internal communication of all the members of the Chapter and thus also bilateral communication to the EDA to share experiences and points of interest.

• Generate human resources through professional training based on AED and CHLA policies for other colleagues and clinical teams in the treatment of eating disorders.

• Foster innovation and best practices by recognizing excellence in the field of eating disorder treatment and research in CHLA countries

• Disseminate our mission, vision and our objectives through the media and social networks so that a greater number of people have access to safe and up-to-date information regarding the symptoms and treatments of ACTs.

• Maintain the CHLA as an associated group recognized by the AED free of conflict of interest and with a one hundred percent academic vision and mission.

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Address: Capítulo Hispano Latinoamericano Organización sin fines de lucro

Country: Mexico

Email: correo@dominio.com

Call +52 (55) 5432 9876

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The International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals (IAEDP™) provides education and training to an international multidisciplinary group of various healthcare treatment providers and helping professions who treat the full spectrum of eating disorder problems. iaedp™ offers a highly respected certification process for those who wish to receive specialized credentials in their work with people with eating disorders and publishes The Eating Disorders Review, an online professional journal that addresses contemporary treatment issues. The value of the overall iaedp™ program is perhaps best seen in its annual Symposium. 

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Country: United States of America

Postal Address: PO Box 1295, Pekin, IL 61555-1295

Email: iaedpmembers@earthlink.net

Call +1 800-800-8126

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The International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals (IAEDP™) provides education and training to an international multidisciplinary group of various healthcare treatment providers and helping professions who treat the full spectrum of eating disorder problems. iaedp™ offers a highly respected certification process for those who wish to receive specialized credentials in their work with people with eating disorders and publishes The Eating Disorders Review, an online professional journal that addresses contemporary treatment issues. The value of the overall iaedp™ program is perhaps best seen in its annual Symposium. 

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Country: United States of America

Postal Address: PO Box 1295, Pekin, IL 61555-1295

Email: iaedpmembers@earthlink.net

Call +1 800-800-8126

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International Eating Disorder Action is a coalition of carers, parents, survivors, sufferers, and other citizens with an interest in advocacy and ACTION around issues relating to Eating Disorders. ur aim is to take the high road consistently while persistently asking tough questions and insisting on answers and transparency from all stakeholders. Actions and advocacy efforts include to:

• Increase societal awareness and knowledge of Eating Disorderss as treatable, biological, brain-based illnesses
• Fight for regulation of groups with no medical credentials advising those with eating disorders
• Broadly and internationally increase access to early diagnosis and aggressive evidence-based treatment
• Work toward research funding parity. 

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Email: IEDAction.global@gmail.com

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The International Federation of Eating Disorder Dietitians, is the representative voice of dietitians working in the eating disorders field as well as non-dietitians who support patient access to nutrition counseling. IFEDD members include dietitians who work or have worked with individuals with eating disorders, conduct research on eating disorders, educate professionals and the public about eating disorders, consult with eating disorder treatment facilities as well as students and dietitians interested in our mission. IFEDD members may also have additional specialty practice areas either within eating disorders or separately. 

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Islam and Eating Disorders is a movement trying to Make Sense of Eating Disorders in the Muslim World.

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Email: waragainsteatingdisorder@gmail.com

Call +44 7498 500385

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The Joy Project is a non-profit organization that aims to empower people with eating disorders by providing real-world, workable strategies and tools for recovery. They provide support, conduct research, and represent the survivor voice in the greater eating disorder advocacy community.

• Connection: leverage the collective wisdom of survivors and their stories to be shared and used to inspire others as they work through their own recovery process.
• Advocacy: promote a variety of methods and strategies for treatment and recovery so that each individual can find a pathway that fits their unique individual needs.
• Support: weekly in-person support group, Facebook support group, and an online resource archive which includes information and self-help tools.
• Research: conduct qualitative studies, collecting information about the lived experience of eating disorder survivors. We share this with the greater research community in the hopes of inspiring further studies.
• Education: conduct educational workshops and provide information via our website. 
• Consultation: request feedback from the population we serve in order to ensure that our programming is successful in meeting their needs. 
• Support Group
• Tools For Recovery

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Country: United States of America

Postal Address: PO Box 16488, St Paul, MN 55116

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Maudsley Parents are a volunteer organization of parents who have helped our children recover from anorexia and bulimia through the use of Family-Based Treatment, also known as the Maudsley approach, an evidence-based therapy for eating disorders. They have a wonderful directory of Family Based Treatment Providers.

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Country: United States of America

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The Middle East Chapter of the AED was formed by the Middle East Eating Disorders Association. MEEDA is a non-profit organization that aims to raise awareness through providing talks, workshops, fun fundraising activities, being involved in research in the field, collaborating with other established associations as well as provide assistance for instance through offering sufferers the opportunity to get help free of charge through support groups.

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Country: Lebanon

Email: info@meeda.me

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The Nordic Society for Eating Disorders (NEDS) aims to develop and systematize knowledge about and improve treatment methods for eating disorders. NEDS aims to do this by:

• Facilitating research in the field, especially research that implies co-operation among professionals in the field in the Nordic countries
• Facilitating co-operation among professionals working in a clinical context in the field in the Nordic countries
• Working to make existing and new knowledge in the field available to members of the Society
• Promoting contacts with corresponding organisations outside the Nordic countries

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Email: admin(@)neds.nu

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Pe(n)sa differente is an international campaign for creative expression and authentic beauty Pe(n)sa differente celebrates the subjectivity that manifests itself as the right to critical thinking, to difference and variation, to enhance the uniqueness and novelty that each person essentially is, with its expressive possibilities and its own peculiar beauty. It promotes self-care and wants to be an invitation to a path of personal construction that passes through resistance to current forms of commodification and homologation.

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Country: Italy

Email: info@pensa-differente.it

Call +39 347 104 0009

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Project HEAL is an organisation that aims to change that system and provide life-saving support to people with eating disorders who the system fails. Project HEAL’s vision is to create a world where everyone with an eating disorder has the opportunities & resources they need to heal.

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Country: United States of America

Postal Address: P.O. Box 160185 Brooklyn, NY 11216

Email: contact@theprojectheal.org

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Ther Healthy Teen Project is an eating disorder treatment program for adolescents and their families in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Healthy Teen Project offers:

• Partial Hospitalization
• Intensive Outpatient programming in the San Francisco Bay Area

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• Los Altos - (650) 941-2300 - 919 Fremont Avenue, Suite 100 Los Altos, CA 94024
• San Francisco - (415) 797-1414 - 1400 Tennessee St., Unit 3 San Francisco, CA 94107

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Address: 919 Fremont Avenue, Suite 100 Los Altos, CA 94024

Country: United States of America

Postal Address: 1400 Tennessee St., Unit 3 San Francisco, CA 94107

Email: info@healthyteenproject.com

Call +1 650-941-2300

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World Disorders Action Day is a groundbreaking global movement to unite activists around the world, dispel eating disorder myths and inspire change. It is on June 2 every year.  World Eating Disorder Action Day aims to:

• Advocate for early intervention and evidence-based treatment
• Put parents and families as key players in their children’s/loved one’s treatment and recovery
• Increase diversity in research, narratives, media, and professionals working in the field
• Break down barriers to care including among undeserved populations
• Promote that eating disorders are treatable at all ages/stages
• Ensure Equity, Inclusion and Diversity in finding and being part of solutions

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Email: worldeatingdisorderday@gmail.com

Call +1 304-433-7999

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The WPA Section of Eating Disorders has been in existence for many years and aims to promote international networking in the field of Eating Disorders. The WPA Section for Eating Disorders has almost 200 members from a variety of disciplines, psychiatrists, physicians, pediatricians, dietitians, mental health nurses, family therapists, and researchers. Their interests include treatment innovations and psychoneuroendocrinological aspects of eating disorders. Stigma and eating disorders in another current concern. 

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Address: Schön Klinik Roseneck - Am Roseneck 6 - D-83209 Prien am Chiemsee

Country: Germany

Email: UVoderholzer@Schoen-Klinik.de

Call +49 8051 68-100102

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