As Manager of the Eating Disorder Center at Rogers Memorial Hospital, attending conferences helps reinforce the reasons why I chose this career path. Just like any career, it is an ever changing community and interacting with other program managers and directors helps all of us understand what is happening globally in the treatment of eating disorders. They are great learning experiences, that I hope aid me in better serving both the patients I care for and Rogers Memorial Hospital.

Eating Disorder Hope (link is external) – EatingDisorderHope.com’s mission is to provide information and resources for patients and families. Since 2005, their philosophy of promotes ending eating disorder behavior and pursuing recovery. Eating Disorder Hope has a very robust social media presence, as well as the following programs in order to assist both people in recovery and families who support those recovering:

Eating disorders require treatment and there are thousands of people in the U.S. who have made it their life’s work to make treatment more effective, make recovery easier and readily available. There are very strong organizations related to the treatment and care of eating disorders that help patients and families not only find a path to recovery, but also resources to stay healthy and keep those who remain in recovery on the right path. This 5 part series will focus on some of the resources available to patients and families that help make a difference in the treatment of eating disorders:

Eating disorders – including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder – affect as many as 5 million Americans every year. While eating disorders typically affect females, males make up as much as 25 percent the total population of people with eating disorders.