2023 Programme Committee

Eric van Furth, PhD, FAED is Director at Rivierduinen Eating Disorders Ursula, a centre of excellence for eating disorders in Leiden, the Netherlands. He is also Professor of Eating Disorders at the department of psychiatry, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and former chair of the Dutch Academy for Eating Disorders.

Nadia Micali, MD, MRCPsych, PhD, FAED, is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Geneva and head of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division, Geneva University Hospital, where she has set up from scratch a service for Child and Adolescent feeding and eating disorders, focusing on evidence-based treatment. She leads a research lab focusing on risk factors, neurobiology and treatment of feeding and eating disorders. She is also Associate Professor at the Great Ormond Street Institute of Child health, UCL, London.

Dr Karina Allen is Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) Eating Disorders Service, and a Visiting Senior Lecturer with King’s College London (KCL).

She has published consistently in the field of eating disorders over the last 15 years and won multiple awards for her work. She has played a key role in the development, evaluation and national roll-out of the FREED early intervention pathway for eating disorders and helps lead national training for the Maudsley model of Anorexia Nervosa Treatment for Adults (MANTRA).

Sam Clark-Stone is a mental health nurse and has led and developed the Gloucestershire NHS open access, all age eating disorders service since 1996. He previously worked with the Bristol Eating Disorders team for 10 years. He worked part time as a trainer with the UK Eating Disorders Association for 8 years and has presented at numerous conferences. Sam has special interests in service development, training and the dissemination of evidence based treatments, especially CBT-E via whole team training.

Sam has worked with local universities to establish primary prevention utilising the Body Project. He has contributed to several research publications and was actively involved in setting up the British Eating Disorders Society (BrEDS) being the Chair of Trustees since it became a charity in 2018. He is a member of the Beat Clinical Advisory Group and recently became co-chair of the CAMHS Eating Disorders Research Consortium.

Dr Schaumberg is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Clinical Psychologist specialising in research, assessment, and treatment of eating disorders.

Dr Schaumberg directs the EMBARK Lab – which promotes valued living and body acceptance through investigating eating and exercise behaviours at the individual level. Dr Schaumberg has contributed to the development, delivery, and evaluation of behavioural treatments, and her research specifically focuses on the distinction between adaptive and maladaptive eating and exercise.