Stephen Wonderlich, Ph.D.
Biography:
Membership Chairperson:
Hans Hoek, M.D., Ph.D.
Biography:
Hans Wijbrand Hoek, M.D., Ph.D., is Chairman of the Department of Research and Training and director of the psychiatric residency program of Parnassia Psychiatric Institute, The Hague (The Netherlands). He is Professor of Psychiatry at Groningen University and has an adjunct position as Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University New York. He has been chairman of the Steeringcommittee of Eating disorders in the Netherlands (SEN). His main publications relate to the epidemiology of eating disorders, the impact of socio-cultural factors and the effects of prenatal famine. He is a member of the editorial board of three international journals in the field of eating disorders and editor-in-chief of a Dutch website for psychiatrists. Hans Wijbrand Hoek is a member of the Task Force on Disability Assessment for the World Health Organization.
Past Presidents:
Stephen Touyz, Ph.D.
Biography:
Stephen Touyz is the Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Sydney. He holds an Honorary Chair in the Department of Psychological Medicine (Psychiatry). Professor Touyz is the Co-Director of the Peter Beumont Centre for Eating Disorders at Wesley Private Hospital.
Professor Touyz first become interested in the treatment of eating disorders whilst an intern clinical psychologist at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. It is here where he first met Professor Peter Beumont with whom he established a 30 year collaborative relationship. They established a clinical research unit for Eating Disorders at Lynton Private Hospital which was an affiliate teaching hospital of the University of Sydney. This is where much of their eating disorder research took place.
Professor Touyz is the inaugural treasurer and executive member of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Eating Disorders. He sits on the executive committee of the leading carer group in New South Wales, the Eating Disorders Foundation. Professor Touyz is also a member of the Academy of Eating Disorders International Task Force and was made a Fellow of both the American Academy of Eating Disorders and Australian Psychological Society in 2005. He served as an external consultant to the American Psychiatric Association whom the first guidelines for eating disorders were developed. He was also one of the consultants given the task by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists to develop clinical guidelines for anorexia nervosa. Professor Touyz is a member of the editorial board of the European Eating Disorders Review.
Professor Touyz has written/edited 4 books, over 170 journal publications and book chapters and has 260 conference proceedings.
He is currently writing his 5th book on eating disorders.
He is married to Rennette Touyz and has a son and daughter who both have postgraduate degrees in Psychology.
Allan Kaplan, M.D.
Biography:
Dr. Allan S. Kaplan is the Loretta Anne Rogers Chair in Eating Disorders and the Head of the Program for Eating Disorders at the University Health Network, Toronto General Hospital. He is also Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He is Past President of the Eating Disorder Research Society and of the Academy for Eating Disorders. Dr. Kaplan received his medical degree from the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine in 1978. Following his medical internship, he completed his psychiatric training at the University of Toronto in 1983, becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada at that time. He then as an Ontario Mental Health Foundation Fellow did graduate work in nutrition and neuroendocrinology at the School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto, where he received his Master of Science degree in 1988. He has worked in the field of eating disorders since 1980 and has published over 90 peer-reviewed papers and over 40 book chapters. In addition, he has co-edited two books. He has lectured nationally and internationally on various aspects related to eating disorders.
