This document announces a free event for school professionals and parents on recognizing and intervening in eating disorders. The event will be held on October 14, 2010 from 7-9pm at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School in Washington DC. Attendees will learn how to identify high-risk behaviors and attitudes related to anorexia, bulimia, and other eating disorders in order to help students receive treatment early. The keynote speaker is Dr. David Herzog, founder and director of the Harris Center for Education and Advocacy in Eating Disorders at Massachusetts General Hospital.

1. Harris Center for Education and
Advocacy in Eating Disorders at
Massachusetts General Hospital
&
Present
Eating Disorders:
What School Professionals and Parents
Need to Know
October 14, 2010
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School
1524 35th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20007
Free of Charge
Underwritten by Feinberg Rozen, LLP
This program will educate school professionals and parents about early recognition
of eating disorders and appropriate interventions. Attendees will learn how to
recognize high-risk attitudes and behaviors — and what steps to take — so that
students with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and associated diagnoses can
begin the process of recovery at the earliest detection of symptoms.
Schools play an important role in the identification, treatment, and prevention of
eating disorders and this forum will provide the knowledge and resources needed
to help students with or at risk for these serious illnesses.
About the Keynote Speaker
David B. Herzog, M.D., is the Harvard Medical School
Registration
Deadline:
October 4, 2010
Endowed Professor of Psychiatry in the field of Eating Disorders
at Massachusetts General Hospital. An internationally renowned
expert on eating disorders, Dr. Herzog is the founder and director
of the Harris Center for Education and Advocacy in Eating
Disorders at Massachusetts General Hospital.
To register, please visit www.independenteducation.org
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