CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS
Jennifer Hawkins, PhD
Associate Research Professor, Philosophy
Assistant Professor, Medicine
Jennifer Hawkins joined the Duke faculty in January 2010 with a joint appointment in Philosophy and the Department of Medicine. Prior to her position at Duke, she was Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. She has written about clinical research ethics, coercion, exploitation, and informed consent and she is co-editor with Ezekiel J. Emanuel of Exploitation and Developing Countries: The Ethics of Clinical Research (Princeton University Press, 2008). Her more recent work has focused on well-being, quality of life, and the nature of decision-making. Recent publications include “Well-Being, Time, and Dementia,” Ethics 2014; “Well-Being: What Matters Beyond the Mental?” forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics; “What’s Good for Them? Best Interests and Severe Disorders of Consciousness” forthcoming in Finding Consciousness, Oxford University Press; and “Decision-Making Capacity and Value” forthcoming in Philosophy and Psychiatry: Problems, Intersections and New Perspectives, Routledge. Professor Hawkins is currently writing a book about well-being.
Laura Weisberg, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Duke University Medical Center
Clinical Psychologist
Duke Center for Eating Disorders
Laura Weisberg is assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center, and a clinical psychologist at the Duke Center for Eating Disorders. From 2008-2012, she acted as clinical director of the Duke Center for Eating Disorders as well as training director (2002-2012). From 1987-2002, she was a clinical associate in psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, and an instructor in psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She served as director of the Eating Disorders Program at Westwood Lodge Hospital from 1989-1999. Professor Weisberg received her doctorate from the University of Maryland-College Park, and her bachelors degree from University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Her current interests center on change processes in psychotherapy, relational and somatically oriented psychotherapies, and the interface between eating disorders and trauma.
SPEAKERS
Simona Giordano, PhD
Reader in Bioethics
Co-director, Center for Social Ethics and Policy
School of Law, University of Manchester
Simona Giordano is a Reader in Bioethics and co-Director of the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy (CSEP), School of Law, University of Manchester. She has specialized in psychiatric ethics and has written and talked extensively on the ethical and legal issues surrounding the care and treatment of people with eating disorders. Professor Giordano is the author of Understanding Eating Disorders, conceptual and ethical issues in the treatment of anorexia and bulimia nervosa, Oxford University Press 2005, and Exercise and Eating Disorders, an ethical and legal analysis, Routledge 2012. She has also published Children with Gender Identity Disorders with Routledge (2013) and An Anthology on Scientific Freedom with Bloomsbury (2012). A Second Anthology on Scientific Freedom with Manchester University Press is forthcoming.
Allan Kaplan, MSc, MD, FRCP(C)
Professor of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Senior Scientist, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute
Center for Addiction and Mental Health
Allan Kaplan is currently Vice Dean for Graduate and Academic Affairs, and Professor of Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. He is also Senior Clinician/Scientist, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health. His research over the past 35 years has focused on innovative treatment approaches for eating disorders and on the genetics of anorexia and bulimia nervosa. He has published over 160 peer reviewed journal articles, two books, 60 book chapters and over 250 abstracts. He was the Head of the Toronto General Eating Disorder Program from 1994-2006, and the inaugural Chair-holder of the Loretta Anne Rogers Chair in Eating Disorders at the University Health Network, the first endowed Chair in Eating Disorders in the world. He was President of the Academy for Eating Disorders from 2001-2002, and President of the International Eating Disorder Research Society from 2005-2006. He has been a continuously funded peer reviewed investigator since 1992, and has received federal grant support from the National Institute of Mental Health in the USA and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in Canada.
Scott Kim, MD, PhD
Senior Investigator, The Department of Bioethics,
National Institutes of Health
Adjunct professor of psychiatry, University of Michigan
Adjunct professor of neurology, University of Rochester
Scott Kim is a senior investigator in the Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health and an adjunct professor of psychiatry, University of Michigan and adjunct professor of neurology, University of Rochester. Previously, he was professor of psychiatry and co-director of the Center for Bioethics and Behavioral Sciences in Medicine at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Kim combines philosophical, clinical, and empirical research approaches to his scholarly work, using a variety of methods (both empirical and normative) to address several bioethical topics, including: ethical issues in pragmatic clinical trials, assessment of decision-making capacity, surrogate consent for incapacitated patients, theory of informed consent, end of life issues, and a variety of topics in research ethics. Dr. Kim’s work has been supported by the NIMH, NINDS, NIA, NHGRI, Michael J. Fox Foundation, American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, and the Greenwall Foundation. His work has appeared in New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, JAMA, and other key journals. His book Evaluation of Capacity to Consent to Treatment and Research (Oxford, 2010) was recently translated into Japanese.
Jennifer Radden, PhD
Professor Emerita of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Jennifer Radden is a professor emerita of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She received degrees in philosophy and psychology from Melbourne University, and holds a doctorate of philosophy in Philosophy from Oxford. She has published extensively on mental health concepts, the history of medicine, and ethical and policy aspects of psychiatric theory and practice. Her books include Madness and Reason (1986), Divided Minds and Successive Selves: Ethical Issues in Disorders of Identity and Personality (1996), Moody Minds Distempered: Essays on Melancholy and Depression (2009), The Virtuous Psychiatrist: Character Ethics in Psychiatric Practice, co-authored with Dr John Sadler (2010), On Delusion (2011), and Melancholy Habits: Burton’s Anatomy for the Mind Sciences (2017), as well as two collections of which she was editor, The Nature of Melancholy (2000) and Oxford Companion to the Philosophy of Psychiatry (2004). Recent publications in bioethics include and ‘Mental Health, Public Health and Depression, a Bioethical Perspective’ Ethics, Medicine and Public Health 2016, and ‘Public Mental Health and Prevention’ Public Health Ethics (in press).
Jacinta Tan, MBBS, MA, MRCPsych, MSc, DPhil
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Swansea University Medical School
Jacinta Tan is a research psychiatrist and medical ethicist. A clinical associate professor of Psychiatry at the Swansea University Medical School, she is also an honorary consultant psychiatrist in the Adult Tier 3 Specialist Eating Disorder Team of the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board. A multidisciplinary academic with degrees in Philosophy and Psychology, Child Health and Sociology, Jacinta spent many years researching mental capacity in anorexia nervosa at the University of Oxford. Her vision as the sole eating disorder clinical academic in Wales is to co-develop interdisciplinary eating disorder and ethics research together with these partners, which examines issues at the coalface of treatment and thereby directly improves healthcare for eating disorders across the lifespan in Wales.
Joel Yager, MD
Professor of Psychiatry
University of Colorado at Denver School of Medicine
Joel Yager is professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Past President of the Academy for Eating Disorder and Past Chair of the Council of Scientific and Clinical Affairs for the National Eating Disorders Association, he chaired the American Psychiatric Association Work Group on Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Patients with Eating Disorders through its first three editions, and is now Senior Consultant for the fourth edition in revision. He is section editor for the Eating Disorders chapters of UpToDate and associate editor of the New England Journal of Medicine’s Journal Watch for Psychiatry, serves on several eating disorder journal editorial boards, and has authored or co-authored more than 300 peer reviewed articles and chapters and eight books in Psychiatry.
RESPONDENTS
Louis Charland, PhD
Professor of Philosophy, Western University
Member, Rotman Institute of Philosophy
Louis Charland is a Canadian philosopher with an interest in the history and philosophy of psychiatry, and the history and philosophy of affective terms and concepts. In addition to his academic work, Louis has worked as a program consultant for various government organizations and as a bioethicist in several major Canadian hospitals. Louis has a special interest in the role of affectivity in decision-making capacity (‘mental competence’) and is the author the entry on “Decision-Making Capacity” in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Nicole Hamilton, JD
Philosophy of Law, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Nicole Hamilton earned a BA summa cum laude from the College of St. Catherine with a double major in history and philosophy in 2000. She earned an MA summa cum laude in European history from the University of Notre Dame in 2003 and an M.A.Ed. summa cum laude from the University of St. Thomas in 2005. Nicole Hamilton earned a JD cum laude from Hamline University School of Law in 2010. Currently, she is in her fourth year of graduate studies in the Philosophy Department at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, concentrating in philosophy of law. She also has an interest in political and moral philosophy.
Michael Strober, PhD
Resnick Family Endowed Chair in Eating Disorders
Professor of Psychiatry
Director of the Eating Disorders Program
Senior Consultant to the Youth Mood Disorders Research and Treatment Program
Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital and David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California Los Angeles
Michael Strober joined the faculty of the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences in 1975, and has served as director of the Eating Disorders without interruption for the past 42 years. In addition to his extensive clinical background, he has authored 250 scientific papers, articles, and book chapters, and his accomplishments in research, service, and teaching have been recognized by the National Eating Disorders Association (he is the 2005 recipient of the Award for Excellence in Research), and the Academy for Eating Disorders (he is the 2005 recipient of the Award for Excellence in Teaching and Education, and recipient of the 2012 Award for Distinguished Service). In addition, Professor Strober has 11 visiting professorships, serves as ad hoc reviewer for 27 peer-review journals, and is one of the awardees of the 2012 Klingenstein Third Generation Award for Best Paper on Depression and Suicide, published in Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. His research activities have been funded continuously by the National Institute of Mental Health for over 20 years and focus on the role of temperament and cross disorder genetic and neural influences in eating disorders; the pharmacotherapy of pediatric affective disorders; and predictors of long term outcome trajectories in eating and affective disorders.
Professor Strober is a founding member and past president of the Eating Disorders Research Society, a founding fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders, and one of only two clinical psychologists invited to join the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology as a founding fellow. He has also served as consultant to the National Institute of Mental Health on research priorities in eating disorders and pediatric bipolar illness, and is editor emeritus of the International Journal of Eating Disorders.
Marvin Swartz, MD
Professor and Head of the Division of Social and Community Psychiatry
Director of Behavioral Health for the Duke University Health System
Marvin Swartz is professor and head of the Division of Social and Community Psychiatry, Director of Behavioral Health for the Duke University Health System and Director of the Duke AHEC Program. Dr. Swartz has been extensively involved in research and policy issues related to the organization and care of mentally ill individuals at the state and national level. He was a Network Member in the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Mandated Community Treatment examining use of legal tools to promote adherence to mental health treatment and led the Duke team in conducting the first randomized trial of involuntary outpatient commitment in North Carolina and the legislatively mandated evaluation of Assisted Outpatient Treatment in New York. He co-led a North Carolina study examining the effectiveness of Psychiatric Advance Directives and the NIMH funded Clinical Antipsychotics Trials of Intervention Effectiveness study. He is currently a co-investigator of a study of implementation of Psychiatric Advance Directives in usual care settings, an evaluation of implementation of assisted outpatient treatment programs and a randomized trial of injectable, long-acting naltrexone in drug courts. Dr. Swartz was the recipient of the 2011 American Public Health Association’s Carl Taube Award, the 2012 American Psychiatric Association’s Senior Scholar, Health Services Research Award for career contributions to mental health services research and the 2015 Isaac Ray Award from the American Psychiatric Association for career contributions to forensic psychiatry.
Nancy Zucker, PhD
Director, Duke Center for Eating Disorders
Duke University School of Medicine
Nancy Zucker is a clinician, researcher, and teacher at Duke University School of Medicine, where she directs the Duke Center for Eating Disorders. Dr. Zucker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She is the author of numerous professional publications and is an author of the upcoming revised practice guidelines for the treatment of eating disorders from the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Zucker’s major clinical and research interest is in understanding how to help young people develop a healthy awareness of their bodies’ signals and learn how to match these to actions that allow them to flourish. Her research and clinical work has been featured on ABC’s “Nightline,” the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Time, and other major news outlets.
PANELISTS
Donna Friedman, MS
Founder, MUSC Friedman Center for Eating Disorders
Medical University of South Carolina
Donna Friedman is the founder of the MUSC Friedman Center for Eating Disorders at the Medical University of South Carolina. She is an internationally recognized advocate for the needs of victims of eating disorders and she speaks on the subject in many different forums. She is a member of the Board of the International Academy for Eating Disorders where she is the first person in its history to serve as the Patient/Career representative, nominated and elected for this position in 2013. In that capacity, she has served as the Board liaison for the Patient/Career Committee and the Advisory Board.
Having received her BA in Political Science from the College of Charleston, Donna went on to receive her MS in Clinical Counseling from Nova Southeastern University. In 2016, she was invited to serve on the International Advisory Board for the Global Mental Health Program at Columbia University.
For many years, Donna has assisted patients to find proper treatment, and in 2016 she helped to establish the first Evidence-Based Eating Disorder Treatment program in the State of South Carolina at MUSC which bears her name.
Jeanne Kerwin, D.MH, CT
Manager, Palliative Care and Bioethics
Atlantic Health System
Morristown, NJ
Jeanne Kerwin is the Manager of Palliative Care and Bioethics at Atlantic Health System. She has been instrumental in the development and growth of the palliative care and bioethics programs since 1988. She has provided bedside palliative care and bioethics consultations for patients, families and caregivers for the past 25 years and is now working with a six-hospital system to standardize the delivery of best practice palliative care and bioethics in all sites. She serves as the co-chair of the Overlook Bioethics Committee and the Atlantic Health Bioethics Oversight Committee. She is a consultant member of the Medical Society of NJ’s Bioethics Committee and serves on several community bioethics committees for those with developmental disabilities and has been involved in statewide changes to improve end-of-life care for this vulnerable population. She was a leader in the State’s initiatives for out-of-hospital DNR orders in 1997 and currently serves on the NJ POLST Task Force. As a member of the NJ Bar Association’s End-of-Life Task Force, she promotes partnering with the legal community to create more effective advance directives for health care and serves on Allspire Health Care Partners, a five-health care system partnership in NJ and PA to improve advance care planning and end-of-life care in our hospitals and communities. She is a faculty member at Drew University in the Medical Humanities Graduate School program. Most recently, Dr. Kerwin was appointed by the Governor of New Jersey in 2016 to serve on the State’s newly formed Advisory Council on End-of-Life Care.
PLANNING COMMITTEE
Jeffrey Baker, MD, PhD
Director, Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine
Director, Program in the History of Medicine
Professor of Pediatrics and History
Jennifer Hawkins, PhD
Associate Research Professor, Philosophy
Assistant Professor, Medicine
Joan Seiffert, LCSW, CGP, PLLC
Social Worker – Private Practice
Verena Socolar, PhD, PMHNP-BC
Nurse Practitioner – Private Practice
Laura Weisberg, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Duke University Medical Center
Clinical Psychologist
Duke Center for Eating Disorders
