Medical Center Hour February 6th

Wednesday, 6 February 2013 (TOMORROW)

12:30 -1:30 pm

Jordan Conference Center Auditorium

University of Virginia School of Medicine

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John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture

Eating Disorders—An Invisible Epidemic

Brooks Brodrick PhD, SMD 2013, UVA, and Junior Board Member,

National Eating Disorders Association

Robin L. Munn MA MSW, Charlottesville VA, Board Member and Past Board Chair, National Eating Disorders Association

Amy K. Chestnutt MPH, Eating Disorders Education Coordinator,

Women’s Center, UVA

There’s much mythology surrounding eating disorders. Myth: these are time-limited illnesses that resolve when a woman leaves adolescence. Myth: only women experience eating disorders.

To explode the myths: in a society that reveres bodily thinness and now also celebrates the extremely “fit” body at once lean and overtly muscular, an estimated 25 to 30 million Americans currently suffer from an eating disorder. Most eating disorders look nothing like the stereotypes suggested by sensational media coverage. The afflicted include men and women of all ages and all ethnicities. 

And so alongside this country’s well-publicized obesity epidemic rages another, quite invisible epidemic of eating disorders.

This Medical Center Hour addresses eating disorders and related questions from three perspectives. Speakers include a UVA student in recovery, a parent and national advocate, and the coordinator of the prevention program at UVA’s Women’s Center. What role does family play in eating disorders? How as health professionals do we ensure that patients get the best treatment? What treatments are most effective? How can we—health professionals and laypersons alike—best support someone who is suffering? What resources are available at UVA and how do we get involved?

Co-presented with the Women’s Center, UVA

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This program is free and open to the entire university and the public. Health professionals who attend may apply for continuing education credit. Medical Center Hour counts toward first-year medical students’ SIM requirements.

The Medical Center Hour is produced weekly throughout the academic year by the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities of the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Our series includes History of the Health Sciences Lectures, which we produce together with Historical Collections in the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.

For information, call 434.924.5974 or see

http://www.medicine.virginia.edu/community-service/centers/biomedical-ethics-and-humanities/medical-center-hour

Watch Medical Center Hour on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/uvamch. Videos are posted a week after the program.