There's No Place Like Home: Parent Conference 2012
Where:
Conference Center
Old Town Alexandria HI 
625 1st Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
US

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When:
Friday November 30, 2012 at 9:00 AM EST
-to-
Saturday December 1, 2012 at 5:00 PM EST
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Speakers and Workshops Announced:

KEYNOTE:

Jeff Bell, Author
of When in Doubt, Make Belief: An OCD-Inspired Approach to Living with Uncertainty, and Rewind Replay Repeat: A Memoir of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and nationally recognized speaker and radio news anchor

Mental health and the media

 

Presenters:

 

Carolyn Costin, MA, MED, MFT, Founder and Executive Director of Monte Nido and Affiliates

History of media coverage of eating disorders and how parents can understand and respond

 

Craig Johnson, PhD FAED CEDS, Chief Clinical Officer, Eating Recovery Center, Denver

The evolution of parents and treatment and advocacy 

 

Lisa S. Kantor, Kantor and Kantor

Paying for treatment, How does insurance work?

 

Dr. Debra Katzman, Professor of Paediatrics in the Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Paediatrics and the University of Toronto. 

WHY is food medicine?

 

M.B Krohel, founding member and Advisor of F.E.A.S.T. and Chair of the F.E.A.S.T. Family Guide Task Force

The future of collaboration

 

Mark Warren, MD, MPH, FAED Clinical Psychiatrist and Medical Director, co-founder Cleveland  Center for Eating Disorders

What IS evidence based treatment and how do I know I'm getting it?

 

WORKSHOPS:

 

Carrie Arnold, MS, Author and Science Journalist 

How to write your story and be heard: from Bruch to Twitter

 

Beth Mayer, LICSW, President of MEDA, 

Parenting adult eating disorder patients

 

Stephanie B. Milstein, Ph.D.,  Dennis & Moye & Associates

Starting parent support groups in your community

 

Julie O'Toole, MD, MPH, founder and medical director of Kartini Clinic

Training your physician and local team

 

Dr. Sarah Ravin, Licenced Psychologist 

Supporting Siblings

 

Tomas J. Silber, M.D. , M.A.S.S.. Medical Director, Donald Delaney Eating Disorders Program at NCMC

Stories that I tell

 

Also: Grief and action

Panel of Fathers

Parent & Recovered Patient Panel

 

Urgent:
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Symposium Planning Committee 2012
F.E.A.S.T.
symposium2012@feast-ed.org
540 227-8518