November 2004 Archives
The Center for Weight Management (CWM) of North-Shore Long Island Jewish Health System seeks a health services researcher with a track record of grant funding and publication in the field of Obesity research. The CWM is located in New Hyde Park, New York.
The CWM provides comprehensive multidisciplinary weight management treatment (cognitive behavioral therapy, nutritional counseling, exercise physiology) to adults, adolescents and children. The CWM also conducts pre-surgical assessments for adult bariatric surgery candidates and pre and post surgical behavioral and nutritional counseling. The Center seeks a researcher to join in the development of a program of research in the areas of obesity prevention and treatment, bariatric surgery assessment and outcomes, and obesity discrimination. For more information, please contact Jeffrey Weiss, PhD via email or by telephone: (718) 470-8445.
The eating disorders program at BC Children's Hospital have produced two videos on Meal Support Therapy, one for professionals, and the latest for friends & family - about meal support, and how to do it well. The materials consist of a 33 minute video and a 40 page "how-to" manual, produced in cooperation with Seattle Children's Hosp. EDP, and enacted by our patients and staff, scenarios co-written with patients and Dr. Pierre Leichner.
The Third Cambridge Conference on Teenage Anorexia Nervosa was held on 2nd November 2004 (see my previous post).
Presentations from the conference are now available the Focus website.
Matt Webb's weblog 'Interconnected' has an article about Google Scholar. Quote: 'as a way of getting a rapid overview of an area and to perform idle, broad searches, this seems to be a great orthogonal slice through academic space'. I couldn't agree more (see my previous post on Google Scholar).
I was very excited to hear about the launch of Google Scholar (beta version).
From the Google site:
"Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use
Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
The Department of Health has today published its much-publicised White Paper on improving the nation's health, entitled 'Choosing Health'. The proposals cover obesity and mental health as well as smoking and sexual health. There's a good summary of the proposals on the BBC news site.
I've yet to read all the proposals but will write in more detail when I've done so.
The International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals (IAEDP) is holding its Mid-Winter Workshop 2005 entitled 'Eating Disorders: Updates and Inroads' on 4th Feb 2005.
The workshop will be held at the Sober Living by the Sea Beach House, Newport Beach, CA, USA. Cost for this workshop is $95. For more information and to register, check out the IAEDP website.
The second (and final) draft of the NICE guidelines for post traumatic stress disorder are available for commenting on the NICE website. If you want to give feedback, you have to do so via one of the Stakeholder organisations which are listed here. Feedback deadline is 29th November.
As colleagues and I have discussed in a recent review paper, eating disorders often overlap with obsessive compulsive difficulties. OCD Action is a UK-based organisation offering help and support for people with OCD and related disorders. They also run an annual conference for people with anxiety disorders, this year on 13th-14th November in Manchester.
