Academy for Eating Disorders (AED)

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.

 

Organisation

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

Country: United States of America

Email: info@aedweb.org

European Chapter of the Academy of Eating Disorders

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.

 

Organisation

Hispano Latino American Chapter of the Academy of Eating Disorders

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.

 

Organisation

Address: Capítulo Hispano Latinoamericano Organización sin fines de lucro

Country: Mexico

Email: correo@dominio.com

International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals (iaedpâ„¢)

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. 

 

Organisation

Country: United States of America

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

Email: iaedpmembers@earthlink.net

International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals (iaedpâ„¢)

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. 

 

Organisation

Country: United States of America

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

Email: iaedpmembers@earthlink.net

Middle East Eating Disorders Association (MEEDA)

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.

 

Organisation

Country: Lebanon

Email: info@meeda.me

World Psychiatric Association Section on Eating Disorders

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. 

 

Organisation

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

Country: Germany

Email: UVoderholzer@Schoen-Klinik.de