Keynote speakers NEDS Conference 2024
We are proud to present the following four keynote speakers for the NEDS 2024 program in Copenhagen, Denmark:
Professor Ulrike Schmidt
Ulrike Schmidt, PhD, FAED, is a British psychiatrist at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, where she is Professor of Eating Disorders and the Head of the Section of Eating Disorders. Schmidt is a consultant at the Eating Disorders Service within the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
She is known for her groundbreaking work helping people with eating disorders and their clinicians. Schmidt has won a National Health Service Innovation Award for the development of a computer-based self-help intervention for people with anorexia nervosa and their carers. She also received the King’s College London Graduate School Supervisory Excellence Awards for 2012–13. Her work has been highlighted in a Lancet profile on the King’s College London Eating Disorders Unit in early 2013.
Professor Glenn Waller
Glenn Waller, PhD, FAED, Professor at the University of Sheffield, is a Chartered Psychologist and an expert in eating disorders. His research interests include the thought processes behind the conditions and ways to treat them. His research and clinical work are focused on cognitive models of eating disorders and their treatment. He has a particular interest in the effectiveness of CBT – how the results of research trials can be matched by clinicians working in routine clinical settings.
Waller has served on the NICE guideline development group that updated the NICE eating disorder guideline. He is Associate Editor for the International Journal of Eating Disorders and sits on the Editorial Boards of several other publications. Glenn Waller is a Fellow and former president of the Academy for Eating Disorders and a founding member of the Eating Disorders Research Society.
Professor Nadia Micali
Nadia Micali, PhD, MD, MRCPsych, FAED, is Head of the Research Unit of Eating Disorders at Psychiatric Center Ballerup and a Professor at the Department of Clinical Medicine at Copenhagen University, Denmark. She leads a research lab focusing on risk factors, neurobiology, and treatment of feeding and eating disorders. She is also an Associate Professor at the Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, UCL, London.
In the last 15 years, Nadia Micali’s research has focused on understanding biological and intergenerational risk for eating disorders using a developmental perspective. The impact of her research is underscored by her role as associate editor of top journals in the field. She has several research collaborations across Europe and the US.
She currently serves as a board member and former President of the Eating Disorders Research Society and has previously served on several Academy for Eating Disorders committees.
Nadia Micali is a Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders.
Professor Eric van Furth
Eric van Furth, PhD, FAED, is Clinical Director of the Rivierduinen Eating Disorders Ursula in Leidschendam – the oldest and largest specialized treatment program for patients with eating disorders in the Netherlands – and Professor of Eating Disorders at the Department of Psychiatry, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), the Netherlands. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Karakter Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and President of the Dutch Academy for Eating Disorders (NAE).
Dr. van Furth is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist specialising in family therapy. He has been working clinically with patients with eating disorders for 30 years.
He has served as the Chair of the Dutch multidisciplinary treatment guideline workgroup on eating disorders (2004–2006) and is a Fellow and former President of the Academy for Eating Disorders.