Eating Disorders Education -

Margo D. Maine, Ph.D.
Maine & Weinstein Specialty Group
970 Farmington Ave., Ste 301
West Hartford CT 06107
860-313-4431
860-313-4437Fax
Email: mdm@mwsg.org

Books Authored:
Body Wars
Father Hunger
The Body Myth

Titles of Presentations:
- Medical Professionals
- Eating Disorders and the Physician
- What Ob-Gyns need to Know and do about Eating Disorders
- The pediatrician's Role in Preventing, Identifying and Manging Eating Disorders
- Bebavioral Medicine and Eating Disorders; A Feminist Family Systems Approach
- The Medical Is Political: Eating Disorders and Women's Health

Mental Health Professionals
- The Body, The Culture, The Self: A Course on Eating Disorders
- Fathers, Daughters and Food
- Managing to Care While Being Managed
- A Clinical Update on Eating Disorders
- Eating Disorders in the Family- When Systems Theory Isn't Enough
- Eating Disorders Complicated by Co-Occuring Disorders
- Body Wars: Helping Families to Overcome Eating Disorders

Educational
- Teens, the Media, and Body Image
- Body Wars on Campus
- What Educators Need to Know and Do about Eating Disorders
- A Peace Plan for Body Wars
- Girls and the Game: Eating Disorders and Sports
- Prevention of Eating Disorders- What Works and What Doesn't

Public
- Body Wars
- What Parents Need to Know about Body Image and Eating Disorders
- Raising Reislient Daughters
- Whose Body (War) Is It?
- The Body Myth

Fee range:
$3,500/ day plus expenses

Some previous speaking engagements:
• Univ. of Missouri- 5-7-04- Eating Disorders on Campus- The Institutional Response
• Mass General Hospital and Harvard Eating Disorder Center- 5-21-04-Eating Disorders at Midlife
• Eating Disorders Coalition for Research, Policy and Action- 4-15-04- Eating Disorders- Multidetermined Disorders/ Multidetermined Treatment Needs Stop the Commercial Exploitation of Children- 2-14-04- Global Girls in Consumer Culture: I Want; Therefore, I Am
• Eating Disorders Information Network, Atlanta, GA- 11-7-03- Whose Body (War) Is It? - National Eating Disorders Association- 9-21-02- Mining the Father-Daughter Relationship (with Joe Kelly)
• American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy- 10-24-02- Food ,Self and Systems: A Course on eating Disorders
• Mental Health Association of Onondoga County- 10-11-02- The Meat of the Matter: Feeding the Hungry Self
• Congressional Briefing, US Senate- 6-27-02- Putting an End To Devastation and Death: The Case for Eating Disorders Prevention
• Butler Hospital, Providence RI-5-8-01- Fathers, Daughters and Food- Understanding Men as Fathers: Psychological, Social, and Treatmen Perspectives
• Symposium for the Advancement of Therapy- 10-15 & 16-01- Eating Disorders: What's Family Got to Do With It?

Bio
Dr. Margo Maine, cofounder of the Maine & Weinstein Specialty Group, is a clinical psychologist who has specialized in the treatment of eating disorders for over 25 years and is a Senior Clinical Consultant at the Institute of Living in Hartford, Connecticut, and former director of their Eating Disorders Program.

Author of Body Wars: Making Peace With Women's Bodies (2000) and Father Hunger: Fathers, Daughters and Food (1991), she is a senior editor of Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention and board member of the Eating Disorders Coalition for Research, Policy, and Action, and of Dads and Daughters. A Founding Member and Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders and a member of the FounderÕs Council and past president of the National Eating Disorders Association, formerly Eating Disorders Awareness and Prevention, Dr. Maine serves on many advisory boards including the National Eating Disorder Screening Project.

Dr. Maine is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Connecticut, Department of Psychiatry and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Hartford, Graduate Institute of Professional Psychology. She is a member of the psychiatry department at the Institute of Living/Hartford Hospital's Mental Health Network and at Connecticut Children's Medical Center.

She has presented at numerous state, national and international conferences on a variety of topics related to the treatment and prevention of eating disorders, women's health, and related issues. Her next book, The Body Myth, coauthored with Joe Kelly, will be published by Jon Wiley in the fall of 2005.

More Info
www.mwsg.org