APAL Grand Rounds: Eating Disorders During Pregnancy

APAL Grand Rounds Series: Eating Disorders During Pregnancy

Friday, 6/20/2025, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Please join us via Zoom or streaming link TBA

Karen Horst, MD

Medical Director - The Women's Place, The Menopause Center, Center for Reproductive Psychiatry, The Pavilion for Women - Texas Children's Hospital
Medical Director - Perinatal Psychiatry Access Network
Assistant Professor - Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology - Baylor College of Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine

 

Dr. Horst will be discussing Eating Disorders During Pregnancy.

Learning objectives:
  1. Outline the classification and epidemiology of eating disorders​
  2. Examine the course of different eating disorders during the peripartum​
  3. Identify options for screening and treatment of pregnant and postpartum patients suspected of having an eating disorder
Citations:
  1. Galbally M, Himmerich H, Senaratne S, Fitzgerald P, Frost J, Woods N, Dickinson JE. Management of anorexia nervosa in pregnancy: a systematic and state-of-the-art review. Lancet Psychiatry 2022;9​
  2. Vanderdruik R, Ellison K, Kanamori M, Freeman MP, Cohen LS, Stice E. Body dissatisfaction and disordered eating in the perinatal period. Archives of Women’s Mental Health 2022;25:739-751​
  3. Frank GKW, Shott ME, Stoddard J, Swindle S, Pryor TL. Association of brain reward response with body mass index and ventral striatal-hypothalamic circuitry among young women with eating disorders. JAMA Psychiatry 2021;78(10):1123-1133
     
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Grand Rounds
Perinatal

When

Noon – 1 p.m., June 20, 2025

Where

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Contacts

APAL Team
team@apal.arizona.edu
520-626-2725