Professor Janet Treasure
Professor Janet Treasure is Director of the Eating Disorder Unit and Professor of Psychiatry at University College London. Professor Janet Treasure has more than 25 years of experience in the treatment and study of eating disorders.
She is currently director of the Eating Disorders Service, which is at the epicentre for clinical management of eating disorders and training. As well as this Professor Treasure is Chief Medical advisor for Beat and a fellow for the Academy of Eating Disorders.
In 2007, Professor Treasure received an Eating Disorders National Award from national eating disorder charity Beat. During her illustrious career, she has edited seven academic texts on eating disorders and authored three self-help books, including Getting Better Bite by Bite, Anorexia Nervosa and A Survival Guide for Families, Friends and Sufferers. Professor Treasure has been active in a number of research projects and has over 150 peer reviewed papers in print. In 1984, she was awarded the Gaskell medal from the Royal College of Psychiatrists and has numerous other awards for her work. In 2004, she was awarded the Academy for Eating Disorders (AED) Leadership Award in Research. (This award honours an individual who has over substantial period of time developed through research new knowledge about eating disorders that is internationally respected and that has had a measurable impact on the field).
As well as her considerable research into eating disorders, Professor Treasure has been highly involved in treatment trials for type 1 diabetes through cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and motivational interviewing. Professor Treasure has trained over 20 PhD students in research on eating disorders and is one of the most highly decorated academics in this branch of research. She is a true luminary in the study of eating disorders and we are truly privileged to have her speaking before us today.