Status of Women committee  Thank you. Merci.

Status of Women committee  I think both Dr. Katzman and I have emphasized over and over again that this is a lethal illness, and it's the number one psychiatric illness that kills young women. I think that people are unaware. I think that a lot of physicians even think that this is a choice, that it's a li

Status of Women committee  Oh, definitely.

Status of Women committee  I just want to say that if you look at a province, and I'll use the example of Saskatchewan, you will see there are pediatricians and psychiatrists there who are very competent and could do this work and build a program—having had residents who came out of Calgary and so eagerly

Status of Women committee  One of the things I'd like to say is I'm not sure about The Hospital for Sick Children, but at our program we actually have an analyst. I think we're so lucky to have a specific person. We do measures at the beginning and end of every segment of our programming, and we have an an

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  With regard to the under-18 population, and Dr. Katzman can comment on this as well, I believe that Lock and Le Grange have done some amazing work in their manualization of family-based treatments. The evidence is there that they're effective. We're trying to use that, as well as

Status of Women committee  I don't know whether it's as high as 60%. I know that in the under-18s it's in a much smaller proportion. In the older population we see a lot of comorbid history of abuse and post-traumatic stress. A lot of our patients really benefit from dialectical behavioural therapy, as wel

Status of Women committee  Hi. I'm good. How are you?

Status of Women committee  We started out under the department of psychiatry. They came, when I was doing my fellowship with Dr. Katzman at SickKids, to view various programs to determine the best model. The uniqueness of the Calgary eating disorder program is that we see all ages, and so we had to devel

Status of Women committee  I'd like to thank the committee for conducting its study of eating disorders among girls and women and viewing this as an important health concern in Canada. I'd like to add that eating disorders also affect males, albeit in smaller numbers. Currently, I'm actively seeing four yo