Overview

This one-day online course is designed to help clinicians meet and overcome the enormous challenges of managing patients with life-threatening eating disorders.

The aim is to educate healthcare professionals on assessing and managing patients with eating disorders and to reduce the deaths in hospital of patients (often young) with very severe eating disorders.

The course covers assessment and treatment of adults and children.

Course content

You'll learn about:

• child and adolescent medical management   
• psycho-social assessment and management of severe eating disorders (children and adolescents)   
• medical assessment and management of severe eating disorders (adults)   
• psycho-social assessment and management of severe eating disorders (adults)
• establishing a MEED-trained team in your place of work

Who this course is for

This course is suitable for medical, dietetic and nursing staff working in settings in which patients with severe anorexia nervosa (AN) could be admitted (including emergency departments, medical admission and paediatric wards, nutrition wards, eating disorder units, adolescent and general adult psychiatric units).

It would also be of interest to GPs who wish to improve their assessment and emergency management skills in this field.

Why you should attend

Our lecturers are experts in eating disorders and nutrition, and most have contributed to the former MARSIPAN documents and the newly launched replacement for MARSIPAN, called MEED.

This course provides a unique opportunity for you to network with fellow healthcare professionals working with patients with eating disorders in what can be a very stressful and sensitive setting.

All the skills acquired on this course will be directly transferable to your everyday workplace. The aim is that this course will enable you to deliver a better standard of care for your patients.

Course structure, teaching and certification

This is a one-day intensive course taught online through a series of lectures and a workshop. It will run from 9am to 5pm.

You'll have the opportunity to ask questions at the Q and A session and you'll be assessed by a multiple choice exam at the end of the day.

On successful completion you'll get a CPD certificate of attendance (showing 6 learning hours).

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this course you'll:

• have learnt how to medically assess and manage patients with severe eating disorders
• understand the differences involved in managing children, adolescents and adults
• have learnt about psycho-social assessment of such patients
• be able to make changes in your own workplace

Cost

The standard course fee is £385.

Please note that bookings will close on 27th February 2026.

Course team

Professor Paul Robinson

Professor Robinson is a teaching professor at University College London and a consultant psychiatrist at Orri UK.  He is senior editor on a published Springer book, “Eating Disorders: an International Comprehensive View”. He produced the first version of MARSIPAN, guidance for the management of patients with severe anorexia nervosa, co-wrote a book on this subject “Critical care for anorexia nervosa” and the current revision which is called “Medical Emergencies in Eating Disorders” (MEED) published in May 2022.  In 2012 he launched the first Masters’ course in the world on Eating Disorders and Clinical Nutrition at UCL. 

Dr Erica Cini

Erica Cini is a clinical academic at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London and at University College London. Clinically, she practices as a consultant psychiatrist at East London NHS Foundation Trust where she is the lead psychiatrist for the Eating Disorders Intensive Pathway for Children and Young People. Erica is also a clinical advisor to Beat, the national eating disorder charity. Her academic interests are higher education and eating disorders research.

Sarah Fuller

Ms Sarah Fuller is the clinical lead  Dietitian, based in Northamptonshshire CAMHS, who specialises in Eating Disorders. She has recently been added to the British Dietetic Association’s (BDA) Roll of Honour in recognition of her groundbreaking work on naso-gastric tube feeding under restraint as well as work on understanding veganism in eating disorders.  She was a core contributor to the MEED guidance as a member of the Expert Reference Group. Sarah is working towards her PhD by published works at the University of Northampton. 

Dr Jen Wood

Dr Jen Wood is a Consultant Gastroenterologist and Nutrition Lead at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals, with a specialist interest in the acute medical management of eating disorders. In her first year as a consultant, she led the implementation of the MEED (Medical Emergencies in Eating Disorders) pathway at Doncaster, establishing structured multidisciplinary working and leading the development of protocols for refeeding, gastrointestinal complications, and medical stabilisation.Driven by a genuine passion to improve outcomes for people with eating disorders, Jen teaches widely across the region and combines clinical practice with ongoing service development. She is committed to embedding safe, confident, and joined-up medical care for this often under-recognised patient group.

Dr Adaeze Bradshaw

Adaeze is a Consultant eating disorder Psychiatrist. She previously worked in community eating disorder teams where she provided clinical leadership to the transformation of their pathways into integrated whole system pathways. She currently works in inpatient setting at Cygnet Healthcare and continues to contribute to national and regional policy setting. Previously, Dr Bradshaw worked as clinical director for specialist services in an NHS trust and clinical lead for Midlands Adult Eating Disorders Clinical Network. Her interests include treatments of co-morbid eating disorder presentation such as ED / PD, ED / Chronic gastroenterological problems. She has extensive experience in service developments (including digitalisation, whole system & population-level approaches) as well as quality improvements. Dr Bradshaw is keen and motivated to make provision of eating disorder services easily accessible, reduce unwarranted variation in provision and consistency in approach to treatment modalities and settings.

Course information last modified: 6 Mar 2026, 16:09