On Thursday, September 25, at 10 a.m., the press is invited to meet leading scientists specializing in eating disorders. A unique opportunity to discuss with Dr Anne Becker from Harvard Medical School and Dr Timothy Walsh from Columbia University and learn about their ongoing studies as welle as the emerging scientific advances that they have put forward. The scientists are among two hundred researchers who will be in Montréal to attend the Eating Disorders Research Society Annual Meeting, which runs from September 24 to 28.

• WHAT: Meet leading researchers at the Eating Disorders press event
• WHEN: Thursday, September 25, 2008
• TIME: 9:30 a.m – 10:30 a.m.
• WHERE: Hotel Omni Mont-Royal, Rm:salle Printemps
  1050 Sherbrooke St. West
  Montréal

Invited speakers

• Anne E. Becker, MD, PhD, MSc
  Associate professor of Psychiatry and of Medical Anthropology at Harvard Medical School, Anne Becker is also the director of the Eating Disorders Clinical and Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital.
• B. Timothy Walsh, MD, PhD
  Dr. Walsh is currently the Ruane Professor of Pediatric Psychopharmacology in the Department of Psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, and director of the Division of Clinical Therapeutics at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
• Howard Steiger, PhD
  President of the EDRS, director of the Eating Disorders Program at the Douglas Institute, and professor of psychiatry at McGill University, Howard Steiger directs Quebec’s only large-scale, specialized program for the treatment of adults suffering from eating disorders, in the areas of anorexia and bulimia nervosa.

Eating Disorders Research Society 14th Annual Meeting in Montréal
The 2008 EDRS 14th Annual Meeting will be held at the Hotel Omni Mont-Royal in Montréal, Quebec, Sept 24 to 28, 2008. It will be hosted by Howard Steiger, PhD, director of the Eating Disorders Program at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute. The three-day meeting will have a varied program, with presentations by leading scientists on key aspects of diagnosis, etiology, psychological management, prevention, and pharmacological treatment for the EDs.