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31st International Scientific Conference October 18-19, 2024
Congress Center Alpbach, Tyrol, Austria
Conference ended successfully
You can find the recordings via a link that you can find on our encrypted homepage. If you need the link to the homepage and the associated password, please contact kongressbuero@netzwerk-essstoerungen.at
A big thank you goes out to our speakers.
As well as the Congress Centrum Alpbach, for their support over the years and the recognition with a bench in Alpbach on our 31st anniversary.
Short statistics about the conference:
A total of 229 people took part
5 keynote speakers
32 speakers who held 3 parallel sessions, 2 symposiums and 8 workshops.
A special thank you goes to all of our student helpers who made everything run smoothly!
Here you can also find our Abstractbook2024.
The 31st International Congress on Eating Disorders is organized by the Austrian Federal Association for Psychotherapy (ÖBVP) as further training for psychotherapists in accordance with the further training guidelines of the Federal Ministry of Health (BmG) with a total of 15 work units (15 AE) and by the Professional Association of Austrian Psychologists: internally (BÖP) recognized as a further training event with a total of 15 further training units (FE). 15 medical DFP points are awarded for physicians.
You should all have received confirmation of participation either on site or by email. If not, please send an email to kongressbuero@netzwerk-essstoerungen.
The 2025 conference will take place from 24-25. October 2025.
Award for Best Oral Presentation
The winner of the Best Oral Presentation will receive an exemption from the conference fee for the Eating Disorders Congress 2025, 32nd International Scientific Conference
1ST PLACE
Home treatment for eating disorders: current research
Ingar ZIELINSKI-GUSSEN
2ND PLACE
Does TikTok contribute to eating disorders? A comparison of the TikTok algorithms of people with eating disorders with healthy controls
Scott GRIFFITHS
3RD PLACE
“Control is good, (self-)confidence is better!” – Improvement in the (self-)efficacy of therapy can only take place if patients are more closely involved in the design – critical comment from a former patient
Annette KRUMPHOLZ
Main lectures/keynotes
(in alphabetical order)
Prof. Dr. med. Christopher U. Correll
What are long-term outcomes for people with eating disorders?
Professor of Psychiatry at the Zucker School of Medicine in Hofstra/Northwell, New York, USA, and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.
Prof. Dr. Fernando Fernandez Aranda
Management of eating disorders and future challenges
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).
Prof. Dr. phil. Simone Muensch
Mechanisms of the development and treatment of binge eating disorder across the lifespan
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.
Enikö Schradi & Prof. Dr. Eva Wunderer
TRES – Trialogue for Eating Disorders: A new offer for those affected, relatives and professionals. Findings from research and practice
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.
Prof. Yael Latzer
Preventing Eating Disorders Through Legislation: The Israeli “Model Law” – Process, Implementation and Dilemmas
Professor and Head of the School of Social Work at the Faculty of Social and Health Sciences, University of Haifa. Founder and Director of EDs Institution; Psychiatric Department of the Rambam, Health Care Campus, Haifa. She also designed and established an innovative rehabilitation home for women with mental disorders and received a prestigious national JDC mental health award in Israel. Additionally, she served as an advisor to the Israeli Parliament and was instrumental in changing ED treatment policies.
30th International Scientific Conference October 20-21, 2023
Congress Center Alpbach, Tyrol, Austria
Conference ended successfully
We look back on a very successful anniversary congress, which was opened by Health Minister Johannes Rauch and State Councilor for Health Cornelia Hagele.
The documents (PDF files for the lectures and workshops) provided by the speakers can now be downloaded PPP_FR_Teil1, PPP_FR_Teil2, PP_SA_Teil1 and PP_SA_Teil2.
And the >> Abstractbook 2023
The recordings can be found via a link that you can find on our encrypted homepage. If you need the link to the homepage and the associated password, please contact kongressbuero@netzwerk-essstoerungen.at
A big thank you goes out to our speakers.
As well as the Congress Centrum Alpbach, for their support over the years and the recognition with a bank in Alpbach for our 30th anniversary.
Short statistics about the conference:
• A total of 200 people took part
• 7 keynote speakers
• 48 speakers who held 5 parallel sessions and 14 workshops.
A special thank you goes to all of our student helpers who made everything run smoothly!
You should all have received confirmation of participation either on site or by email. If not, please send an email to kongressbuero@netzwerk-essstoerungen.at
The 2024 conference will take place in October 2024.
Award Best Oral Presentation
The winner of the Best Oral Presentation will receive a waiver of the congress fee for the Congress on Eating Disorders 2023, 30th International Scientific Meeting.
1ST PLACE
Respect every Body – a campaign against comments about the body
Raffaela VANZETTA and Evi PLONER
INFES Eating Disorders Unit; FORUM Prevention; Bolzano, Italy
2ND PLACE
“MACAN-T”: an idea for a multimodal training program
Angelica FAUSTER
South Tyrol Medical Company, Infes – the specialist center for eating disorders: Leiters, Italy
2ND PLACE
Stigma in eating disorders and obesity
Hartmut IMGART
Parkland Clinic Bad Wildungen; Specialist clinic for psychosomatics and psychotherapy; Bad Wildungen-Reinhardshausen, Germany
Main lectures/keynotes
(in alphabetical order)
Anna Hofer & Eva Wunderer
Professional help with one click?! – Tacking stock and discussing quality guidelines for digital counseling for eating disorders in Germany.
Anna Hofer studied clinical social work and is currently a research associate in the DigiBEssst project – Digital Counseling for Eating Disorders.
Eva Wunderer is a graduate psychologist and systemic couple and family therapist (DGSF). Professor for psychological aspects of social work at the Landshut University of Applied Sciences. The focus is on the areas of eating disorders, clinical social work, clinical psychology and systemic therapy; numerous research projects and publications. Psychotherapeutically specialized in the field of systemic work with children and adolescents, especially eating disorders.
Yael Latzer (English)*
*Due to circumstances, Yael Latzer was unfortunately unable to travel to the congress. Eric Stice gave a second lecture and Michal Hasson Rosenstein gave a workshop instead.
Stopping the “Revolving Door”: A Unique Rehabilitation House for Young Adults with Severe
Eating Disorders.
Professor and Dean of the School of Social Work at the Faculty of Social and Health Sciences, University of Haifa. Founder and Director of the Eating Disorders Institution; Psychiatric Unit of Rambam, Health Care Campus, Haifa. She also designed and established an innovative rehabilitation home for women with severe eating disorders (“Zeida Laderech“), for which she received a prestigious national Mental Health Award. She has also served as an adviser to the Israeli Parliament and was instrumental in changing treatment policies for eating disorders (ED). She is known both locally and internationally as an expert in the field of ED.
Sabrina Mörkl
The Microbiome / Gut-Brain-Axis in Eating Disorders
Specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapeutic medicine, scientist, lecturer at the Medical University of Graz (MUG). Co-opted board member of the Austrian Society for Nutrition (ÖGE). Her specialty is “Nutritional Psychiatry”, which deals with the prevention and treatment of mental illnesses with nutrition.
Cristina Segura Garcia
10 years of BED in DSM-5
Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Magna Graecia (UOC) in Catanzaro (Italy) and Medical Director at the UOC for Psychiatry. Director of the Outpatient Clinic for Clinical Research and Treatment of Eating Disorders in Catanzaro and member of national (SIP, SIPA, SOPSI, SIO) and international (AED) scientific societies. Main activity clinical and scientific work in the field of eating disorders, in particular Binge Eating Disorder.
Prof. Dr. Eric Stice
Risk factors that predict future onset of each eating disorder: Implications for more effective prevention programs
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (USA). His research focuses on identifying risk factors that predict the onset of eating disorders, obesity, substance abuse, and depression. He developed a dissonance-based eating disorder prevention program, the Body Project, that has been implemented in 140 countries. Lori Irving Awardee for Excellence in Eating Disorder Prevention and Awareness from the National Eating Disorder Association and Christina Barz Awardee from the World Psychiatric Association.
Martin Teufel
Obesity: weight of emotion and behavior.
President of the German Society for Eating Disorders (DGESS), Director of the Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the LVR University Hospital in Essen; Vice Director of the West German Cancer Center (WTZ); Board Member, Center for Translational and Behavioral Neuroscience (C-TNBS), Essen. Hans Roemer Prize winner for “outstanding work in the field of psychosomatics” due to his work in the field of obesity. Expert in the field of eating and weight disorders as well as somatopsyche/ psycho-oncology.
Stephan Zipfel
Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa – Long-term results
Specialist in psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy, specialist in internal medicine, Medical Director of the Department for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the Medical University Clinic in Tübingen and professor for psychosomatic medicine at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen. Head of the Competence Center for Eating Disorders (KOMET), president elect International College of Psychosomatic Medicine (ICPM) and Vice-Dean. Main areas of work and research: Eating disorders, somatoform and functional disorders, psycho-oncology.
29th International Scientific Conference 21-22.10.2022
Congress Centrum Alpbach, Tyrol, Austria
>> ED Alpbach 2022 Abstractbook
Award Best Oral Presentation
The winner of the Best Oral Presentation will receive a waiver of the congress fee for the Congress on Eating Disorders 2023, 30th International Scientific Meeting.
1. PLACE
Update Wiederernährung Anorexia Nervosa
Walburger WÜNSCH-LEITERITZ
Klinik Lüneburger Heide, Bad Bevensen, Germany
2. PLACE
Eating Disorders in the Middle-East and in a Middle-Eastern Population
Carine EL KHAZEN
ACPN, Dubai, United Arabic Emirates
3. PLACE
Das Leben der Anderen: Essstörungen und Soziale Medien
Markus FUMI
Schön Klinik Roseneck, Prien am Chiemsee, Germany
Key Note Speaker
Prof. Dr. med. Martina de Zwaan
What role does psychological and physical comorbidity play in the treatment of eating disorders?
Prof Dr. med. Martina de Zwaan is the Director of the Clinic for Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy at the Hannover Medical School. She received her doctorate in allied health from the University of Vienna in 1986 and completed further training in psychiatry and neurology as well as in cognitive and behavioural therapy in Vienna. She opened her career as a senior physician at the Psychosomatic Hospital in Bad Bramstedt and then obtained the venia docendi for psychiatry at the University of Vienna in 1995 on the subject of binge-eating disorder. She then moved to the Psychiatric University Hospital in Vienna as a senior physician until 2003 and in between held a visiting professorship at the Division of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Neuroscience, UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Fargo (North Dakota). Furthermore, she was head of the Psychosomatic and Psychotherapeutic Department at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg from 2003 to 2011. Her scientific focus is on eating disorders and obesity, psychological aspects of bariatric surgery, psychosomatics in transplant medicine and the development and validation of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs).
Dr Helga Simchen
Eating disorders in AD(H)S
Dr. Helga Simchen is a paediatrician specialising in neurology and psychiatry in children and adolescents, behavioural therapist, depth psychological psychotherapy and family therapy. She first worked as a senior physician in a paediatric clinic, then moved to the Magdeburg Medical Academy as a senior physician with a teaching assignment in neurology and psychiatry in children and adolescents as well as rehabilitation education. The main focus of her scientific work was hyperkinetic syndrome and dyslexia, in which she worked closely with the Leibnitz Institute, formerly the Brain Research Institute. In 1995 she opened her practice in Mainz with a focus on AD(H)S, learning and behavioural disorders. She has written 7 books on AD(H)S and its comorbidities based on her experience with over 1000 patients in her practice.
Ricardo Dalle Grave M. D.
Cognitive behavioural therapy for adolescents with eating disorders: An effective alternative to family-based treatment
As Director of the Department of Eating and Weight Disorders at Villa Garda Hospital in Verona, Italy, Ricardo has developed, with Christopher G. Fairburn of Oxford University, a proprietary treatment process for inpatients with eating disorders. It includes a programme adapted for adolescents, and his main research focus is CBT-E in the treatment of adolescents and adults with eating disorders who are severely underweight. His projects include prevention work for eating disorders and obesity. He is regularly invited to lead public workshops and seminars for clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, endocrinologists, surgeons, nutritionists and other health professionals on the nature and treatment of obesity and eating disorders both in Italy and around the world. Dr Dalle Grave is a member of the CBT-E training group and has been recognised by Expertscape as an expert in Anorexia Nervosa. He is also editor of the CBT-E website and director of the Italian Advanced Training Course for the Treatment and Prevention of Eating Disorders and Obesity, which trains clinicians in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Eating Disorders and Obesity. He also provides Expterten-CBT-E supervision for clinical services in Europe, the USA, Australia and the Middle East. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Eating Disorders and a member of the editorial boards of all eating disorders journals.
Carine El Khazen
Eating disorders in the Middle East and Middle Eastern populations
Carine el Khazen is a clinical psychologist. She holds a Master’s degree in clinical and psychopathological psychology (USJ), a postgraduate degree (DESS) in clinical and psychopathological psychology (Sorbonne University) and a diploma in profound studies (DEA) in clinical psychopathology (Jussieu University). Carine has worked as a clinical psychologist in Dubai, United Arab Emirates since 2004. She has been working at the American Center for Psychiatry and Neurology (ACPN) since 2011. As a specialist in eating and weight disorders, she has established and directs the only specialised multidisciplinary outpatient programme for eating and weight disorders in the region. Carine is a CBT-E therapist, trainer and supervisor. The programme is a CBT-E centre of excellence. Together with Dr Riccardo Dalle Grave, she co-authored the first manual for parents of adolescents treated with CBT-E: “Cognitive Behaviour Therapy For Eating Disorders in Young People”, a guide for parents, published by Routledge Press. Carine is also the clinical lead for the centre’s psychological services. Carine is a member of the Academy of Eating Disorders (AED) and Vice Chair of the Middle East Eating Disorders Association (MEEDA), a non-governmental organisation representing AED in the Middle East. She oversees and directs all day-to-day activities of the association, which is dedicated to raising awareness, supporting sufferers and educating the general public and professionals on eating and weight disorders.
Ulrich Voderholzer: Refeeding in severe adolescent and adult anorexia nervosa: new studies
Umberto Nizzoli: Food and Addiction – Eating Disorders as Addiction?
Ursula Prinz, Karin Waldherr: Essstörungen und gestörtes Essverhalten rund um die Menopause
Greta Noordenbos: How to understand & to treat severe self-criticism and body hate?
Kerstin Emmer: Mein Weg aus der Essstörung
Edburg Edlinger: Reizdarmsyndrom, AFRID & Ernährungstherapie
Markus Fumi: Das Leben der Anderen: Essstörungen und Soziale Medien
We are pleased to introduce the Key Note Speaker for the Eating Disorder Conference 2021!
Transdiagnostic risk factors and treatment approaches for eating disorders
Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor Tracey Wade completed a Master of Clinical Psychology at the Australian National University (1992), and a PhD at Flinders University (1998). Since 2000 she has worked in the School of Psychology at Flinders University. She is currently an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Eating Disorders. In 2015 she was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, in 2016 she was made an Inaugural Honorary Fellow of the Australian Association for Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy, and in 2019 she was the recipient of the Australia and New Zealand Academy of Eating Disorders Distinguished Achievement Award, and appointed a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society. She is the director of the Flinders University Services for Eating Disorders and conducts research across a range of clinical settings and schools, with over 200 peer-reviewed publications. She is currently director of the Órama Research Institute.
Psychosocial questions about obesity surgery: what do we know or think we know?
Univ. Prof. Dr. med. Stephan Herpertz is Director of the Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the LWL University Hospital in Bochum and President of the German Society for Eating Disorders (DGESS). His research focusses on obesity, eating disorders and psychodiabetology.
Integrative Cognitive-Affective Therapy: Basic Behavioral Science to Randomized Controlled Trials
Stephen Wonderlich, Ph.D., is the Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor, University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences. He serves as Vice President and Chief of Behavioral Health Research at Sanford Health. He also serves as Co-Director for the Sanford Eating Disorder and Weight Management Center and also the Sanford Center for Biobehavioral Research.
He has published widely in the literature. He currently sits on the Editorial Board for several professional journals, is a Past-President of the Academy for Eating Disorders, and was a member of the Eating Disorder Workgroup for DSM-5. He serves, or has served, on the Board of Directors for several eating disorder organizations, including the Eating Disorder Research Society, Academy for Eating Disorders, Eating Disorder Coalition, and the National Eating Disorder Association.
“Social cure” and “social curse”: group processes in institutions for people with eating disorders – blessing or curse?
Eva Wunderer, Prof. Dr. phil., is a graduate psychologist and systemic couple and family therapist. She studied and did her doctorate at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In 2009 she was appointed professor for psychological aspects of social work at the Landshut University of Applied Sciences. She specialices in (systemic) work with children and adolescents, especially in the area of eating disorders.
Eating disorders, pregnancy and motherhood
Barbara Mangweth-Matzek (Prof. Dr. MMaga) has been working at the Medical University of Innsbruck, Department for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics since 1994. As a Psychologist and Psychotherapist, her focus is on eating disorders, which she also researches scientifically from a wide variety of aspects. She currently works at the psychosomatic outpatient clinic and works in the eating disorder clinic, the fertility clinic (in the context of disturbed eating behavior) and in the psychological evaluation and care of bariatric patients.
28th International Scientific Conference
Congress Centrum Alpbach, Tyrol, Austria
Was held as a webinar due to the Corona Pandemic!
1st International Scientific Webinar Network Eating Disorders, Tyrol, 22.12.2020
Programme
15:00-15:10 MEZ
Welcome
15:10-15:40 MEZ
Prof. Dr. Yael Latzer (Israel)
The Dark Side of Eating: Definition, Psychopathology and Treatment of Night Eating Syndrome
15:40-16:10 MEZ
Prof. Dr. Cristina Segura-Garcia (Italy)
Binge eating disorder: a different phenotype of obesity?
16:10-16:30 MEZ
Discussion
16:30-17:00 MEZ
Gerard Butcher, MSc. (Ireland)
Watching our words: The problem of language in Eating Disorders
17:00-17:30 MEZ
Prof. Dr. Eva Trujillo (Mexico / Mexico)
Avoidant Resctrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)
17:30-17:50 MEZ
Discussion
17:50-18:00 MEZ
Farewell
27th International Scientific Conference
17-19.10.2019, Congress Centrum Alpbach, Tyrol, Austria
>> ED Alpbach 2019 Abstractbook
Award for Best Lecture
The winner of the golden certificate will receive a waiver of the congress fee for the Congress on Eating Disorders 2020, 28th International Scientific Meeting.
1ST PLACE
Vegan, vegetarian (lacto-ovo, pesco, semi) or non-vegetarian diets for anorexia nervosa – possible or feasible? Do the courses of re-feeding and weight gain differ?
Walburger WÜNSCH-LEITERITZ
Lüneburger Heide Clinic, Bad Bevensen, Germany
2. PLACE
The significance of self-dramatisation on Instagram in the context of the development of eating disorders
Eva WUNDERER; Maya GÖTZ
Landshut University of Applied Sciences, Landshut, Germany
Social support or social contagion? How people affected by eating disorders influence each other in an inpatient setting
Eva WUNDERER, Christine MOLL, Theresa KALTENHAUSER
Landshut University of Applied Sciences, Landshut, Germany
3. PLACE
Unintended casualties of the War on Obesity: Patients attributing their eating disorder onset to anti-obesity messaging enter treatment with more severe symptoms
Janell MENSINGER
Drexel University, Dornsife School of Public health, Philadelphia, USA
26th International Scientific Conference
18-20.10.2018, Congress Centrum Alpbach, Tyrol, Austria
>> ED Alpbach 2018 Abstractbook
Award Best Lecture
The winner of the golden certificate will receive a waiver of the congress fee for the Eating Disorders Congress 2019, 27th International Scientific Meeting.
1ST PLACE
Medical complication in eating disorders
Hartmut IMGART
Parkland Clinic, Bad Wildungen, Germany
2ND PLATE
Multifamily therapy in inpatient treatment: A close look at girls with bulimia nervosa.
Patti-Sue KENTZLER, Sophia WITTINE, Hartmut IMGART, Dennis BESCHORNER, Lena KRÄLING, Ingo HAASE
Parkland Clinic, Bad Wildungen, Germany
3. PLACE
Walking and waiting as interventions for emotional eating of overweight people
Heike LINAMAYER
Vienna, Austria
