Description
In this episode MIllie chats with Dr Warren Ward. Warren is a psychiatrist who has worked in the area of eating disorders for 20 years. He is Director of the Queensland Eating Disorders Service (QuEDS) and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Queensland. He is Chair of the Queensland Health Eating Disorder Advisory Group and co-author of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry (RANZCP) Clinical Practice Guidelines for Eating Disorders.
In 2017 he received the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Eating Disorders (ANZAED) Distinguished Achievement Award. In 2018 he was elected a Fellow of the International Academy of Eating Disorders. He has published more than forty articles and book chapters, most of them on eating disorders. He was recently appointed Medical Director of Wandi Nerida, Australia’s first residential program for eating disorders. They discuss the importance of a multi disciplinary team approach to eating disorder treatment, the value of lived experience in the education and training of clinicians, the importance of early intervention and the impact of COVID-19 on eating disorders.
This podcast is listener supported and funded by endED Want to know how to support endED? Become and endED FRIEND for $10 a week or other options ** All memberships will be direct debited monthly. All donations over $2AUD are tax deductible
Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.