Multidisciplinary Management of Eating Disorders

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Alastair W McKinlay, BSc (Edin), MB ChB, FRCPEd, FRCP(Glas)  Consultant Gastroenterologist, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Foresterhill, Aberdeen. Dr McKinlay trained in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, and has a specialist interest in nutrition.  He has particular interests in functional gastrointestinal disease and the management of eating disorders. He was part of the team that developed the NHS Health Improvement Scotland (HIS) Standards for Nutritional Care, has chaired the Scottish branch of the British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (BAPEN) and is a former President of the Scottish Society for Gastroenterology. He has over 25 years experience as gastroenterologist working in a busy teaching hospital and is Physician to the Eden Unit, the specialist inpatient facility for patients in the North of Scotland with eating disorders. Jane B. Morris, MA, MB, BChir (Cantab), MRCPsych Consultant Psychiatrist, Eden Unit, Royal Cornhill Hospital, Aberdeen Dr Morris trained in Medical Psychotherapy and CAMHS, and her current specialism is eating disorders. She is the Chair of ScotFED (the Faculty of Eating Disorders of the Royal College of Psychiatry in Scotland) and EEATS (Eating Disorders Education & Training Scotland). For a number of years she was a designated medical practitioner with the Scottish Mental Welfare Commission.    Dr Morris edited and co-wrote the ABC of Eating Disorders and has published reviews, papers, articles and blogs in various journals .  She sees herself as first and foremost a clinician, rather than a research scientist, and has learned most from working closely with patients and their families.