Medical Myths, Misconceptions, and Mistakes with Eating Disorder Treatment
Event Information
Description
February 26th
Education and Networking Event
Medical Myths, Misconceptions, and Mistakes with Eating Disorder Treatment
Generously hosted by
Presented by:
Leslie Kaplan, MD
About the Presenter:
Dr. Kaplan is a pediatrician specializing in adolescent and young adult medicine, with 20 years of experience treating patients with eating disorders. After receiving her medical degree from UCLA, she went on to a residency in pediatrics at KPMC, Los Angeles and a fellowship in adolescent medicine at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Since training, she has worked at the Pepperdine University Student Health Center, where she served as the Medical Director of the Eating Disorder Treatment Team, at the Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Teen Clinic where she helped establish the adolescent eating disorder clinic, and as medical supervisor at a local residential ED treatment program. She currently works at Calabasas Pediatrics Wellness Center seeing adolescents and young adults and has opened a private practice in Calabasas specializing in the unique medical care of those with eating disorders.
About the Presentation:
Working with physicians to assess, diagnose, and monitor our patients with eating disorders is life-saving work. However, not all medical providers are trained in the complex world of treating eating disorders. During this event, Dr. Leslie Kaplan will discuss common misconceptions about medical care of patients with eating disorders, mistakes doctors commonly make with their ED patients, how to identify which medical health care providers are knowledgeable in ED treatment, and how to foster constructive working relationships with medical providers through understanding their role in ED treatment.
Objectives:
1) Attendees will be able to identify mistakes doctors commonly make while treating the medical consequences of eating disorders (e.g., interpreting labs, preventing osteoporosis, interpreting vital signs).
2) Attendees will be able to understand the value of a knowledgeable medical providers in the treatment of eating disorders.
3) Attendees will be able to identify which medical health care providers are knowledgeable in the treatment of eating disorder patients.
4) Attendees will be able to distinguish between the different health care professional degrees.
1 Hr of CE Credit Provided for MFT, LCSW, LPCC, RD
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