EDRS Honors Eating Disorder Awareness Week 2020!

Embracing and spreading this year’s theme, "Come As You Are: Hindsight is 20/20"

GREETINGS, COLLEAGUES!

To commemorate the ending of Eating Disorder Awareness Week, EDRS would like to honor individuals and families battling eating disorders and the professionals who have dedicated their work to recovery.

We embrace this year’s theme of “come as you are” by announcing our upcoming conference on September 26, 2020 at San Francisco LGBT Center.

Critical Conversations:

Addressing the Needs of our Trans Communities with Eating Disorders

This day-long conference is devoted to addressing the needs of our Trans and Gender Non-Binary communities with eating disorders. Eating disorders have reached alarming rates in our Trans and Gender Non-Binary communities, and we must urgently address their needs.

Join us for a day of open and reflective dialogue as we aim to facilitate eating disorder treatment for these communities.

This day long program starts with a morning presentation by Jonathan Avila, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford University; Adolescent medicine, endocrinology, eating disorders.

The afternoon program will consist of a panel of experts who hold diverse healing approaches in the treatment of eating disorders from therapy, advocacy to artistic expression:

Jonathan Avila, MD

Jonathan Avila, MD (he/him) is the Clinical Assistant Professor Stanford University; adolescent medicine, endocrinology, eating disorders.

Sand Chang, PhD

Sand Chang, PhD (they/them/their) is a Chinese American genderfluid/ nonbinary/ femme psychologist/ trainer in practice for 15+ years. They are the Clinic Director of Octave in San Francisco and maintain a private practice in Oakland.

Vaughn Darst, MS, RDN

Vaughn Darst (he/they) is a transgender nonbinary Registered Dietitian who specializes in treating eating disorders among under-served populations, including gender diverse teens and adults, high weight individuals, and neurodivergent youth.

Jack Geballe, MS, APC

Jack Geballe (he/him/his) is a clinical therapist, currently providing outpatient care in Santa Cruz and Oakland, CA. Jack is queer, trans & nonbinary, white, able-bodied, average-size, and has the experience of significant access & privilege. He has 11 years of experience treating eating disorders within acute care settings and is in eating disorder recovery.

Daniel Ryu, PsyD

Daniel Ryu (they/them or he/him) is an Asian American nonbinary transmasculine clinical psychologist. Daniel has trained across clinical settings that serve marginalized populations who have been disproportionately affected by chronic disease, trauma, addiction and serious mental illness.

Caleb Luna

Caleb Luna (they/them) is a performer-scholar-activist. They are a Ph.D. candidate in Performance Studies at UC Berkeley, where their research focuses on historicizing cultural representations of fat embodiment. They are interested in embodied difference as a generative resource toward fatter understandings of collective freedom.