Arnold Andersen, M.D.
U. of Iowa College of Medicine
2887 JPP, 200 Hawkins Dr.
Iowa City, IA 52242

Email: arnold-andersen@uiowa.edu

Books Authored:
-Practical Comprehensive Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia (1985)
-Males with Eating Disorders (1990)
-Eating Disorders: Guide to Medical Care and Complications (2000)
-Making Weight: A Men's Guide to Problems with Food, Weight and Shape (2000)
-The Psychiatric Clinics of North America (2001)

Titles of Presentations:
Eating Disorders: The Gender Factor
Eating Disorders and Primary Care Clinicians
Eating Disorders: Update on Diagnosis, Treatment, and Research
Males and Body Image Integrating Psychotherapy and Psychopharmacology Neurobiology of Eating Disorders
Overvalued Beliefs: Uniting Anorexia and Terrorism

Audience
All levels of medical education for health care professionals, families, teachers, coaches, students, media.

Five learning objectives that are discussed
1. What are eating disorders: fact and fiction (It's not about food or weight)
2. How to diagnose and treat eating disorders.
3. Using evidence based studies to plan treatment.
4. Understanding Gender Specific Medicine: how to factor in gender in psychological, behvioral, and medical disorders.
5. Making sense of the interaction of sociocultural and neurbiological/genetic factors in initiating and sustaining eating disorders.

Fee range:
Variable. Negotiable.

Some previous speaking engagements:
* Integrative Treatment of Anxiety after 9/11/01. Psychiatry Residents, Iowa City, IA. October 3, 2002.
* Psychiatry Series for new Chaplain Residents. "Eating Disorders: the disorder, overview of the general treatment strategy", October 9, 2002.
* The Gender Factor in Diagnosis, Treatment and Outcome of Eating Disorders. The Fourth Annual Professional Symposium for the Treatment of Eating Disorders: The Elisa Project, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX. October 11, 2002.
* Eating Disorders in Teens and Children with Developmental Disabilities. Center for Disabilities and Development. October 21, 2002.
* Iowa City Primary Care Physicians: "The Challenge of Behavioral Medicine for the Primary Care Physician." November 7, 2002.
* Cantrabria Regional Eating Disorders Conference. "The Good News About Eating Disorders: Treatment and Research." Chronic Eating Disorders Panel, Santander, Spain. November 14-16, 2002.
* Presentation for Pediatric Residents. February 26, 2003.
* "Depression Medications Present and Future", resident dinner. April 11, 2003.
* Iowa Lutheran (Des Moines), April 24, 2003: eating disorders and the primary care physician
* "Understanding Personality Disorders" talk to Physicians Assistants. July 16, 2003.

Bio
Arnold Andersen, M.D. is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Iowa, College of Medicine, where he and Dr. Bowers and Kay Evans, ARNP, have initiated a spectrum of care for eating disorders, including an inpatient unit, a Partial Hospital (Day) Program, an Outpatient Diagnostic and Continuing Care Clinic, and a variety of teaching and research programs. Their program is based on cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) principles, including group, family, and individual therapy, with individualized psychopharmacology.

Dr. Andersen is especially interested in the integration of biomedical and psychosocial therapies, the gender factor in behavioral disorders, the neurobiology of eating disorders, medical complications of eating disorders, and cross-cultural studies. He and colleagues have published numerous peer-reviewed research studies, clinical teaching chapters in books, and presented outcome and other research studies at local, national, and international meetings. His background includes Cornell Medical College, a medical internship, board certification in psychiatry, 15 years on the faculty of Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, and participation in numerous scientific groups.

His vision of future research in eating disorders is that it will lead to more effective treatment through understanding of the mechanisms of illness, and especially identification of vulnerable young people in whom evidence-based preventions may be effective. His research at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and the University of Iowa includes studies on the effect of eating disorders on bone density (osteoporosis), males with eating disorders, treatment outcome, and theories of origin of eating disorders. He enjoys skiing, travel, writing, and hiking.