Ovidio Bermudez, MD

Keynote Presentation Title:

“Emerging Eating Pathologies: What and Why?”

Presentation Overview:

This presentation will review the important evolution in clinical presentations of eating pathology in recent times and how new presentations of eating disorders are important to recognize and manage adequately. Dr Bermudez will review highlights of ARFID, ED-DMT1, and Atypical Anorexia Nervosa. Also, will discuss some of the other emerging eating disorder syndromes that do not have formal diagnostic criteria, including some of those based on medical co-morbidities. Finally, some possible causes of why this shift in clinical presentations will be discussed.

Learning Objectives:

1. Attendees will be able to recognize how varied clinical presentations of eating pathology has accelerated in the last few decades.
2. Attendees will be able to discuss features of ARFID and Atypical Anorexia Nervosa that are different than traditional eating disorders
3. Attendees will be able to broaden how they define stress and its impact on humans

Biography:

Ovidio Bermudez, MD, is the Senior Medical Director of Child & Adolescent Services, Chief Clinical Education Officer and Executive Ambassador for Eating Recovery Center and affiliates. He holds academic appointments as Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. He is Board certified in Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. Dr. Bermudez, MD, is also a co-founder of Renewed.