About your trainer

Professor Bryan Lask

Bryan Lask is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at St George's Hospital Medical School in the University of London. He has specialised in early onset eating disorders for 25 years, having established the first clinical and research programs in the UK for these conditions.

He has published about 150 papers and 7 books, lectured around the world and has held visiting professorships in Canada, the USA, Australia and Norway.

 

Deanne Jade

Deanne, a psychologist and founder of the NCFED, is a member of the European Council on Eating Disorders, the UK Forum on eating disorders (Division of Clinical Psychology) and the National Obesity Forum. She has assisted NICE with the production of guidelines for both Obesity & Eating Disorder treatments.

She is a member of an all-party parliamentary group advising on public health approaches to weight management. Her pioneering work has featured extensively on TV, radio & national newspapers & magazines. Contributions to a number of books include Talking Points: Eating Disorders; (Wayland), Eating Disorders & Obesity (Independence) & Eating Disorders Body Image & the Media for the British Medical Association.

 

Paul Sacher

Paul Sacher is the founder and Research Director at MEND, an organisation committed to improving the health of families through the development of evidence based treatment and prevention plans for childhood obesity. MEND, the largest child obesity weight management problems, has over 220 sites in the UK Denmark and Australia.

Paul is also Senior Research Fellow at the Childhood Nutrition Research Centre at the Institute of Child Health.

 

Dr Emily Lovegrove

Dr Emily Lovegrove (The bullying doctor), a psychologist, lectures widely and has published a book, “Help, I’m being bullied”, which teaches young people how to deal with appearance related bullying.