Eating Disorders Research
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The Eating Disorders Research group is the research arm of the Eating Disorder Service (EDS) at Sydney Children's Hospitals Network, the largest child and adolescent eating disorder service in NSW. They are a part of the Kids Mental Health Research group at Kids Research based at both The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick.
The EDS conducts clinical practice with a strong clinical research focus and drives innovation through research into treatment of these disorders, ensuring patients receive the best care. Over recent years the eating disorder research team has forged strong links with other treatment services and universities locally, nationally and internationally. The service is also highly supportive of student research, accepting student projects from honours to PhDs nationally and internationally.
Every year, hundreds of children throughout NSW and beyond receive care and support from the eating disorder team. Key to its success has been a strong clinical research focus driving treatment innovation in the treatment of children and their families with this challenging condition.
Objective
Our research focuses on the patient as a whole, with research projects focuses on care optimisation for specific disorders as well as research to develop family-based treatments and detection of early onset eating disorders.
Impact
- We established the first Family-based Treatment program in Australia at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead.
- We offer clinical trials for children and adolescents with an eating disorder in a paediatric inpatient setting.
Collaborators
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Dr Andrew Wallis