Medical Complications in Children and Adolescents with Feeding and Eating Disorders

Описание: This webinar provides an overview on the diagnosis, assessment, and medical complications of children and adolescents with feeding and eating disorders. Feeding and eating disorders affect nearly every system in the body, and signs and symptoms vary depending on the child or adolescent’s eating disorder behaviors. The early recognition of medical complications can help facilitate timely treatment and an appropriate level of support. Most of these medical complications improve or resolve with nutritional rehabilitation and cessation of eating disorder behaviors. Prompt recognition of the medical complications can improve short- and long-term health in these young people.

Presenter: Debra K. Katzman, MD, FRCP(C)
Dr. Debra Katzman is a Professor of Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics and University of Toronto (UofT) and Senior Associate Scientist at the Research Institute at SickKids. She co-established the Eating Disorders Program at SickKids in 1993. She was the Head of the Division of Adolescent Medicine at SickKids from 2004-2012. Dr. Katzman is the Director of Health Science Research in the MD Program at UofT. Dr. Katzman is the Past-President of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM) and the Academy for Eating Disorder (AED). She is a Fellow of SAHM and AED. She is a member of the DSM Review Committee for Body Systems Disorders. Dr. Katzman is also Immediate Past Chair of the Specialty Committee for Adolescent Medicine and the Chair of the Examination Committee at the RCPSC. The focus of Dr. Katzman's research program has been to study the unique physiologic and developmental issues in children and adolescents with eating disorders