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Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Chevese Turner

Board of Directors
President
Trisha Souders Rubin, L.C.S.W.
Founder, Growth and Recovery Center

Vice President
Ellen Shuman
Founder, WellCentered, Inc.

Secretary
Ashley Southard, Ph.D., LGMFT
Family Therapist and Researcher

Treasurer
Ramona G. Seidel, MD
Partner, Bay Crossing Family Medicine

Theresa Chestnut, MSW, LCSW
Primary Therapist
Castlewood Treatment Center, St. Louis, MO

Allison Grupski, PhD
Fellow
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Il

Marsha Hudnall, RD, MS
Director & Owner, Green Mountain at Fox Run

Wendy Oliver-Pyatt, MD, FAED CEDS
Founder, Executive Director, Psychiatrist
Oliver Pyatt Centers, West Miami, FL

Amy Pershing, LMSW, ACSW
Clinical Director, The Center for Eating Disorders Director, Bodywise Binge Eating Recovery Program

Suzanne Ricklin, LCSW-C, BCD, CEDS
Founding Partner, Century Mental Health, Inc.

Meredith Terpeluk, MNA
President, Core Wellness Life Coaching, LLC

Andrew Walen, LCSW-C
Director, The Body Image Therapy Center

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JANUARY 2012 -
Women’s Health Retreat Green Mountain at Fox Run Announces Program to Heal Binge, Emotional and Compulsive Eatin

Workshop Featuring Carolyn Coker Ross, MD, Offers Holistic Approach to Healing from Behaviors Triggered by DietingJanuary 8-14
Ludlow, VT
Click here for more information

MARCH 2012 -
BEDA NATIONAL CONFERENCE
March 2-4, 2012
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Registration is NOW OPEN!

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Watch BEDA’s Scientific Advisory Chair Cynthia Bulik, PhD discuss the “dance” of genes and environment in eating disorders. --> Watch here

BEDA objects to language and inaccuracy of statements that perpetuate stereotypes of the obese in New York Times article on obesity --> Read more

“Keeping True to BED Recovery During the Holidays” by BEDA board member Amy Pershing, LCSW, ACSW
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BEDA’s First Annual Weight Stigma Awareness Week.
September 26-30.

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BEDA’s CEO --> Read Her Story
Tiffany Washburn--> Read Her Story

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