EDBI Research Forum

Eating Disorders and Body Image (EDBI) is hosting a hybrid forum to showcase their up and coming researchers.

By Translational Health Research Institute (THRI) Western Sydney University

Date and time

Fri, 5 Aug 2022 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM AEST

Location

Seminar Room U.4.03, Level 4

Western Sydney University - Westmead Precinct 160 Hawkesbury Road Westmead, NSW 2145 Australia

About this event

Eating Disorders and Body Image (EDBI) is hosting a hybrid forum to showcase their up and coming researchers on Friday 5th August 2022 from 2pm to 6pm

Location: WE U4.03 Seminar Space Western Sydney University’s Westmead Innovation Quarter (IQ)

Our guest speaker will be Prof Anna Brytek-Matera Laureate Bekker Programme of the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA). Professor Brytek-Matera will present: Eating disorders in Eastern Europe: distribution and determinants and Current perspectives on additional phenotypes of eating disorders

Presentations at the forum will illustrate the diversity of the research that forms EDBI at Western.

Attendance is both in-person and on-line to accommodate the large interest in this area and the challenges of Covid health restrictions.

More about Eating Disorders and Body Image - EDBI comprises researchers at Western with an active interest in eating disorders and body image. We come from varied disciplines and professional backgrounds including medicine, psychology, nursing, exercise science.

At EDBI, we are producing ground-breaking research in broad areas across the fields of eating disorders and body image, including in epidemiology, diagnostic classification, treatment trials, functional neuroimaging, visual perception, and health services use.

EDBI also includes the Eating disorders and Nutrition Research group (ENRG). At this forum will also hear brief presentations from inaugural members’ of the ENRG group

Professor Brytek-Matera - Professor of Medical and Health Sciences at the Institute of Psychology, University of Wroclaw. Head of the Nutritional Psychology Unit and Eating Behavior Laboratory.

Her research focuses on eating disorders, eating behaviour and orthorexia nervosa. It has been supported by the National Science Center, Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Foundation for Polish Science, the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme.

French Government Scholarship laureate. Editorial Board Member (e.g. Eating and Weight Disorders). Guest lecturer at foreign universities (e.g. Stanford University).

Organised by

Translational Health Research Institute (THRI) Western Sydney University

Western Sydney is the epicentre of Australia's healthcare opportunities and challenges. Growing, urban, diverse and aspirational, Western Sydney is transforming, and needs a healthcare system that transforms with it. To deliver this healthcare system we need a new model of health research – a model that integrates world-class research into policy and practice. A model that focuses on the community and supports seamless healthcare from primary and population health through to acute hospital treatment. A model that considers carers and families, the local economy and the environment. Western Sydney University, embedded in the most diverse and interesting health community in Australia, is creating this new model: THRI.

THRI is Western Sydney University's Translational Health Research Institute. Western Sydney University produces world class research in public health and health services, psychology, nursing, human geography, paediatrics and reproductive medicine, microbiology, pharmacology, and many other important areas of healthcare. Our researchers cover diseases – both acute and chronic — health service delivery and new models of care. THRI connects Western Sydney University's research to the nation's fastest growing urban population, Western Sydney. Research is most powerful when it is done in partnership and THRI will partner with health practitioners, hospitals, local health districts, primary health networks and, of course, patients.

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