Extension of the abstract submission until June 29, 2024!
Our congress will take place from 18 – 19 October 2024 at the Congress Center Alpbach, Tyrol.
As of now, we are looking forward to receiving your abstract submission as well as your registrations for congress. For your contributions, we prefer your presence participation on site – should you wish a virtual participation please contact us by email, so that we can support you technically in the best possible way.
As every year, our congress is aimed at people affected by eating disorders and their relatives, general practitioners, school doctors, dentists, specialists in pediatrics, psychiatry in childhood, adolescence and adulthood, as well as all doctors in training, psychologists and psychotherapists, dieticians, occupational therapists, nurses and other professions who want to expand their expertise in the special field of eating disorders.
The aim of the congress, which will be held virtually and on-site in a hybrid format, is to present the current state of research, treatment and prevention of eating disorders and obesity and to promote scientific and clinical-therapeutic exchange. The two-day event will include presentations on clinical, diagnostic, and therapeutic topics related to eating disorders, as well as presentations by support groups, family members, and eating disorder sufferers.
We are looking forward to receiving your registrations.
Journey
For your journey to Alpbach, it is best to take the express train (ICE/IC/EC) to Jenbach (20 km) or Wörgl (25 km) or the regional train to Brixlegg (10 km) or Rattenberg (12 km). If you arrive by train or bus, you can take the VVT line (Regiobus) to Alpbach free of charge with your accommodation reservation confirmation from/to Jenbach, Wörgl, Brixlegg and Rattenberg train stations. On site you will receive the free Alpbachtal Card from the respective landlord. During your stay, this serves as a pass for journeys with the Regiobus and offers additional inclusive services.
For our congress we were able to win excellent experts from all relevant areas on the subject of eating disorders as keynote speakers. We are happy to announce: will be announced soon…
Prof. Dr. Fernando Fernandez Aranda
Clinical psychologist and head of the special department for eating disorders at the Clinic for Clinical Psychology at Bellvitge University Hospital (Barcelona) and scientific leader of the research group for psychoneurobiology of eating and addiction behavior at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL). In addition, since 2020 he has been an Associate Professor at the Department of Clinical Sciences of the Bellvitge Campus of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of Barcelona (UB). He graduated in psychology in Barcelona in 1990 and received his doctorate from the University of Hamburg, where he worked and conducted research for five years. He has served as a visiting professor at various international universities, given hundreds of lectures around the world, published more than 490 scientific papers and received several international awards for his research work. Dr. Fernández-Aranda has led more than 30 national and international EU projects and is group leader and coordinator of the obesity sub-program of CIBERobn (Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red-Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición). He is co-director of the Eating Disorders Section of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA). He was also Editor-in-Chief of the European Eating Disorders Review and President of the Eating Disorder Research Society (EDRS).
Working title: Management of Eating Disorders and Future challenges
Prof. Dr. phil. Simone Munsch
Professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Freiburg, Switzerland. Scientist and psychotherapist. Her research focus is experimental psychopathology and intervention research in children, adolescents and adults with a focus on eating disorders. She runs a university outpatient clinic and has been active in various evaluation commissions for project and personal funding of the Swiss National Science Foundation since 2013.
Working title: Mechanisms of the development and treatment of binge eating disorder across the lifespan
Prof. Dr. med. Christoph U. Correll
Professor of Psychiatry at The Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, New York, USA, and also Professor and Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany. He completed his medical studies at the Free University of Berlin in Germany, and Dundee University Medical School in Scotland. He is board certified in general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry, having completed both residencies at The Zucker Hillside Hospital in New York. Since 1997, he has been working and conducting research in New York, USA, and since 2017 he is also working in Germany again. He focuses on the identification and treatment of youth and adults with severe mental illness, clinical trials, epidemiology, psychopharmacology, meta-analyses, and the interface between physical health and mental health. He has authored or co-authored over 900 journal articles that have been cited more than 80.000 times and received over 40 research awards for his work. Additionally, Dr. Correll has been holding numerous Expertscape rankings based on the number of publications and citations in the past 10 years, including being ranked consistently since 2017 as the number one cited world expert in >10 areas, including “central nervous system agents”, “psychotropic drugs“, “schizophrenia”, “schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders”, “antipsychotics”, “delayed action preparations” and “weight gain”.
Working title: What are the Outcomes in People with Eating Disorders?
Enikö Schradi & Prof. Dr. Eva Wunderer
Enikö Schradi is a clinical social worker (M.A.). She is a research assistant and doctoral candidate in the “TRES – Trialogue for Eating Disorders” project at Landshut University of Applied Sciences and also works as a lecturer there. Prof. Dr. Eva Wunderer is a qualified psychologist and systemic couple and family therapist (DGSF) and researches and teaches at the Landshut University of Applied Sciences, among other things, on the subject of clinical social work with people with eating disorders.
Working title: TRES – Trialogue for Eating Disorders: A new offer for those affected, relatives and professionals. Findings from research and practice
Netzwerk Essstörungen
Innrain 28/8
A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
T + 43-512-57 60 26
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kongressbuero@netzwerk-essstoerungen.at
www.netzwerk-essstoerungen.at
Congress organization
Lena Ribitsch BSc
Convenor & Chair
Dr. Karin Waldherr
Ferdinand Porsche FernFH, Wiener Neustadt; vice-president of the Austrian Society on Eating Disorders
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schüßler
Medical University Innsbruck/ MedUni Graz
Co-Convenors & Co-Chairs
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Karwautz
Medical University Vienna; president of the Austrian Society on Eating Disorders
In collaboration with:
Austrian Society for Eating Disorders (ASED)
