10.17.09 The Fifth Annual UNC Conference on Eating Disorders:

The 5th Annual UNC Conference on Eating Disorders and Obesity will be held on Saturday, October 17th at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The conference will focus on detection and management of eating disorders and obesity in primary care and educational settings. Physicians, counselors, and educators are often the first point of contact for children and adults with eating disorders and obesity. We will provide you with practical screening, evaluation, referral, and management tools tailored to your setting. Our featured keynote speaker Marian Tanofsky-Kraff, PhD will discuss the growing problem of loss of control eating in youth, its impact on obesity, and practical management strategies. Cynthia Bulik, PhD will discuss the treatment of binge eating disorder in adults. Intensive specialty workshops will include advanced cognitive-behavioral therapy for eating disorders, detection and management of eating disorders and obesity in primary care, development and implementation of eating disorders programs in schools across the age spectrum (middle school to university), and interpersonal psychotherapy targeting loss of control eating for the prevention of obesity in youth. More information on the conference and continuing education credits will be available soon at www.med.unc.edu/cme/events.