ANZAED 2026 Sydney Conference

Theme: All Bodies, All Voices: Human Rights, Equity & Innovation in Eating Disorder Research
Thursday 20 – Sunday 23 August 2026
Sheraton Sydney Hyde Park, NSW

Join leaders, clinicians, researchers and lived experience experts from across the eating disorder sector for four days of learning, connection and collaboration. The 2026 ANZAED Conference will feature Keynote Addresses, Oral Presentations, interactive sessions and a spotlight on person-centred care, plus pre- and post-conference workshops to extend your skills.

  • ANZAED Member rates (exclusive discounted rates) are available only to those who renew or join for the 2026 - 2027 financial year Join now
  • Full-time students (non-members) - Please email us at [email protected] for the discount code.
  • To receive Lived Experience Workforce* discounted conference reg fees, please email us at [email protected] for the discount code.
    *Lived Experience Workforce: The Lived Experience Workforce refers to individuals in designated roles (whether paid or voluntary), where lived or living experience is an essential employment criterion and is intentionally applied as part of their professional contribution. This includes individuals drawing on their own lived experience as well as those drawing on family, carer and kin perspectives where these form part of designated roles. These roles are supported by appropriate training, supervision, and role clarity, and operate across service delivery, research, policy, education, and governance contexts. Examples include Peer Support Worker, Family Mentor, Lived Experience Worker.

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Follow these steps to REGISTER for the conference:
STEP 1: LOGIN to your account or CREATE a new account.
STEP 2: Click the REGISTER button that will appear next to your name.
STEP 3: Select ONE of the following 4 registration categories:
- 2-Day Conference Registration
- 1-Day Conference Registration (select between the Friday or Saturday Day Options)
- Pre/Post Conference Workshop only option
STEP 4: If you select a 2-Day or 1-Day Conference Registration, please note that this does NOT include the Saturday Cocktail Function or any Pre and/or Post-Conference Workshops. You can add these PAID options, as well as any FREE additional events, from the program items listed below.

Please note: Registration is required for all additional events. To avoid delays upon arrival at the conference venue, please select your additional event options from the PROGRAM section below.

*Session times and program details are subject to change.

When
20/08/2026 8:00 AM - 23/08/2026 5:00 PM
AUS Eastern Standard Time
Where
Sheraton Sydney Hyde Park 161 Elizabeth Street Sydney, NSW 2000 AUSTRALIA

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Program

Thursday, 20 August 2026

Description
Presenters: Glenn Waller & Tracey Wade
Time
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
9:00 AM
Presenter: TBC
Time
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
9:00 AM
Presenter: Sook Ning Chua
Time
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
9:00 AM
Please select this option only if you are attending a half-day workshop.
Lunch is included with all full-day workshop registrations.
Time
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
12:30 PM
This is a FREE networking event for CREDENTIALED EATING DISORDER CLINICIANS ONLY.
Time
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
5:00 PM

Friday, 21 August 2026

Description

Are you attending an ANZAED conference for the first  time or do you want to get to know more about becoming an ANZAED member? Not sure where to start, even if it is not your first time? We are here to help make sure you get the most out of your ANZAED experience. We would like to invite you to join us for a morning tea exclusively designed for first-time conference attendees, people new to ANZAED, and new members. This gathering will provide you with the opportunity to meet those working in the eating disorders field, familiarize yourself with ANZAED benefits, learn about ANZAED engagement and networking activities, and to receive answers to any queries you may have. We also extend a warm invitation to experienced conference attendees to participate, offer support, and foster connections.
Time
10:35 AM - 11:15 AM
10:35 AM
  • Toward embodied healing: Psilocybin-assisted therapy for body image disturbance in women with a history of anorexia nervosa | Claire Finkelstein
  • Helping others, hiding ourselves: A qualitative study of lived experience among eating disorder clinicians | Pheobe Ho
  • Interoception, Sociodemographic Factors, and Eating Disorders | Laurence Cobbaert
  • Bridging Cognitive-Behavioural and Interpersonal Models of Disordered Eating: A Network Analysis in an Australian Community Sample | Chantal Delaquis
  • Investigation of associations between self-reported sensory processing, eating disorder symptoms, neurodivergence, and gender congruence from a lived experience lens | Kai Schweizer
  • Ngā Māuiui Kai and the Māori Diaspora: Sociocultural and Structural Dimensions of Māori Experiences of Eating Disorders in Australia | Kacey Martin
Category
Concurrent Orals
Time
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM
11:15 AM
  • Exploring the risk of eating disorders in adolescents with chronic physical illness: A systematic scoping review | Stephanie Hannah
  • Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Serious Health Events in Individuals with Eating Disorders: A Systematic Review | Kate Murphy
  • Autism and Eating Disorder: an Umbrella Review | Tsz Ying Tsui
  • A Protocol for Exploring Eating Disorders in a Women’s Prison | Amy Woods
  • Filter to Filler: Understanding pathways from beauty focused social media to surgical and non-surgical cosmetic procedures | Grace Barker
  • Disordered eating symptoms in Nutrition students before and after exposure to course content | Louise Pannekoek
Time
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
11:15 AM
  • Interprofessional Enhanced Cognitive Behaviour Therapy - Intensive (CBT-IEI): A novel 12 week collaborative dietetic and psychological treatment for adults with eating disorders | Jessica Dove
  • Evaluating the Impact and Acceptability of the Brief Intervention/Therapy for Eating Disorders (bITE) Program | Sam Wright
  • Individual variability for change in eating disorder symptoms following behavioural weight management interventions conducted with adolescents and adults: Findings from the EDIT Collaboration | Hiba Jebeile
  • Evaluation of an eating disorder day program – is a unique short-term block design the ideal format? | Ertimiss Eshkevari
  • Bridging the Gap: The InsideOut eClinic as a Scalable, Equitable Model for Evidence-Based Eating Disorder Digital Therapies | Rachel Denzel
  • Program Evaluation of the Next Steps Virtual Intensive Outpatient Program | Amarnie Mohammed
Time
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM
11:15 AM
  • How does psychotherapy work? Applying causal discovery modelling to understand mechanisms of action of CBT for eating disorders | Sarah Barakat
  • Creating the Conditions for Recovery: Parent and Young Person Perspectives on how Change Occurs in an Eating Disorder Day Program | Alyssa Grady
  • Mapping a Lexicon of Harm in Eating Disorder Care: A Conceptual Analysis of Iatrogenic Harm and Medical Trauma | Gabriel Lubieniecki
  • Living With the Aftermath: PTSD and Role Disruption in Long-Term Eating Disorder Care | Genevieve Pepin
  • When Group Treatment Doesn’t Fit: Adapting Eating Disorder Day Programs for Neurodivergent Participants | Ana Ximena Torres
  • Surviving the Storm: a Qualitative Study Caregivers’ Challenges in Family-Based Treatment for Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa In Aotearoa | Liesje Donkin
Time
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM
11:15 AM
  • Blurring the Boundaries: An Investigation of Eating Disorder Recovery Content on TikTok | Scott Griffiths
  • Pathways to Prevention: Lived Experience Insights into Early Intervention for Eating Disorders in Boys in a Digital World | Mia Bannister
  • Resetting Instagram’s algorithm: Testing its effect on young women’s body image and eating disorder symptoms | Luka Carr
  • User Experiences of TikTok's Algorithm in Eating Disorder Echo Chambers: A Qualitative Study | Wahidah Pan
  • Care, Control, and the Under-16 Social Media Ban: Qualitative Parent and Carer Perspectives Ahead of Implementation | Elena Konovalov
  • Disclosures, Disclaimers, & Detection: AI-Generated vs Human Models’ Impacts on Young Women’s Body Image and Advertising Effectiveness | Ashley Chenery
Time
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM
11:15 AM
  • How do we improve the early identification and management of Eating Disorders? Driving change in Primary Care with the InsideOut GP Hub | Melissa Pehlivan
  • The Body Blocks Randomised Controlled Trial: Enhancing Educators’ Competence and Knowledge in Positive Body Image Promotion | Lyza Norton
  • Teachers’ Perspectives on Safe Nutrition Messaging in Schools: Findings from an Australian Survey | Gabriella Heruc
  • Ways of Reducing Barriers for Help-seeking and Improving Interventions for Disordered Eating and Body image Concerns in Elite Athletes: A Qualitative Study | Marissa Kotsaris
  • Longitudinal Risk Factors of Compulsive Exercise in Elite Athletes | Kai Qi Gan
  • "All Bodies, All Voices" from the Start: Parent Experiences of Eating Disorder Safe Practices During the First 2000 Days | Hilary Smith
Time
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM
11:15 AM
Presenters: Janet Conti, Phillipa Hay & Lauren Heywood
Time
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
1:45 PM
1:45 PM
Adapting Eating Disorder Care Through a Weight-Inclusive and Neuro-Affirming Lens

Presenters: Carly Roukos, Hannah Beighton & Sarah Cox
Time
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
1:45 PM
Presenters: Callula Sharman & Brigitte Perry
Time
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
1:45 PM
Integrating Therapeutic Movement in Best Practice Eating Disorder Care

Presenters: Kai Schweizer, Bonnie Furzer, Alanah Reilly & Sarah Orman
Time
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
1:45 PM
Developing and implementing co-designed interventions to support transitions from Paediatric to adult eating disorder services

Presenters: Pheobe Ho, Beth Swann, Asha Hall & Sarah Trobe
Time
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
1:45 PM
5:30 PM

Saturday, 22 August 2026

Description
Hosts: Sarah Trobe & Shannon Calvert

Light Breakfast will be provided

Time
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
8:00 AM
Presenters: Laura Kiely, Joseph Wonderlich, Agnes Ayton & Fernando Fernandez-Aranda
Time
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
10:45 AM
Presenters: Kellie Lavender
Time
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
10:45 AM
Presenters: Tanya Gilmartin & Tanya Franic
Time
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
10:45 AM
Presenters: Maugan Rimmer, Andrew Wallis & Lisa Dawson
Time
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
10:45 AM
Presenters: Myah Turner-Revach, Katia Pellicciotta,  Susie Hansen
Time
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
10:45 AM
Presenters: Sinead Day, Mandy Goldstein, Phillipa Hay, Natalie McCall, Katarina Prnjak, Marion Roberts & Deborah Mitchison
Time
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
10:45 AM
  • Beyond the West: A Meta-Analysis of Eating Disorders and Body Image Dissatisfaction Across Africa | Musa Jemal Negash
  • Ngā māuiui kai: Māori whānau experiences of eating disorders in Aotearoa | Gloria Fraser
  • Bringing He Papakupu to Life: A Māori-Led Social Media and Te Taiao-Based Storytelling Approach to Ngā Māuiui Kai Awareness | Kacey Martin
  • Setting the table – an Indigenous approach to eating disorders research through a Yarning Roundtable | Lauren Pearson
  • Advancing Equity Through Collaborative Inpatient Pathways for Eating Disorder Care | Madeleine Dumaresq
  • Factors Associated with Self-Reported Eating Disorder Treatment Helpfulness In Trans and Gender Diverse People | Kai Schweizer
Time
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1:15 PM
  • Identifying barriers, motivators and needs for lived experience engagement in eating disorder research: The BoNd study | Genevieve Pepin
  • Access to Services with Severe and Enduring Eating Disorder: A rapid review of the lived experience literature | Stephanie Bennetts
  • "They Treated the Eating Disorder, Not Me": Lived Experience Perspectives on Medical Trauma, Epistemic Injustice, and Neurodivergence in Longstanding Eating Disorder Care | Gabriel Lubieniecki
  • The equity gap within: Stigma, shame, disclosure and help-seeking among eating disorder clinicians | Pheobe Ho
  • Elevating Lived Experience Voices: A Program of Research Advancing Eating Disorder Care for People in Higher Weight Bodies | Leah Brennan
  • Families’ Experiences of a Peer-Based Carer Coaching Program at Eating Disorders Victoria for Supporting a Young Person Through Eating Disorder Treatment | Remy McDougall
Time
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1:15 PM
  • The diagnostic accuracy of questionnaires to identify eating disorder risk in adolescents and adults with higher weight: an updated systematic review | Eve House
  • Validation of the Multifaceted Instrument for Body image Disturbance (MI-BoD) in a clinical sample | Katarina Prnjak
  • Outcome Measurement Meets High Acuity: Reflections on Collecting Psychometric Data in Severe Eating Disorders | Defne Demir
  • Co-reviewing the TrEAT Registry; a Learning Health System for Eating Disorders | Louise Carpenter
  • Measuring child body image safely: Challenges for research and the ScreenED Project | Laura Hart
  • Description of Abnormal LFTs in admitted Anorexia Nervosa patients: Disease vs Refeeding | Nicolette Lyttle
Time
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1:15 PM
  • The Psychosocial Risk Factors Associated with Orthorexia Nervosa in Young Adults: A Mixed-Method Study | Mesut Güney
  • Longstanding anorexia nervosa: An empirical diagnostic category or a legacy of treatment inequity? | Laura Kiely
  • Reconceptualising Anorexia Nervosa: Co-designed psychometric network models generating a novel theory of illness | Emma Bryant
  • Beyond Scores: A mixed-methods exploration of dietary attitudinal incongruence and subjective emotion’s role on eating in clinical sample | Bianca Martins
  • GLP-1A use, eating disorder psychopathology, and negative affect | Ivanka Prichard
  • Disordered Eating during the menopausal Transition: Feasibility of a Psychoeducational Dissonance-Based Resource to Reduce Risk | Sophie Temple
Time
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1:15 PM
  • Understanding the Impact of the ANZAED Eating Disorder Credential: A Comparison of Lived Experience Perceptions of Eating Disorder Treatment with Credentialed and Non-Credentialed Clinicians | Madalyn McCormack
  • Public Support for Evidence-Based Social Media Regulations to Improve Body Image and Eating Disorder Symptoms in the United Kingdom, United States, and Australia | Jasmine Fardouly
  • Listening at Scale: What a National Eating Disorder Helpline Reveals About Unmet Need, Risk, and Equity in Access | Natalie Spicer
  • From Fragmentation to Collaboration: Suicide Prevention in Eating Disorders | Sarah Giles
  • What is the TrEAT Registry? Overview, preliminary data, and future directions | Deborah Mitchison
  • Supporting safe nutrition messaging in Australian schools: Reducing eating disorder risk in young people | Felicity Coluccio
Time
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1:15 PM
  • Temperament-focused schema therapy for binge eating disorder with comorbid trauma: Findings and clinical guidance | Phoebe Joshua
  • Narrative Therapy for Longstanding Anorexia Nervosa (L-AN): A mixed methods analysis of outcomes and in session identity negotiations | Lauren Heywood
  • Navigating Transitions: Feasibility & Acceptability of Temperament-Based Therapy with Support (TBT-S) for Emerging Adults | Jasmin Watson
  • Adaptations to Optimise Eating Disorder Treatments for Autistic Individuals: A Scoping Review | Sarah Davenport
  • Integrated interventions for disordered eating and behavioural weight loss in adults of a higher body weight: A meta-analytic systematic review | Olivia McDonnell
  • A Brief, Family-Centred Inpatient Pathway for ARFID in Children Under 12: Early Outcomes from a Mental Health–Led, Neuroaffirming Model of Care | Chantel Kleiner
Time
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1:15 PM

Sunday, 23 August 2026

Description
Presenters: Karen Spielman & Susan Barnett
Time
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
9:00 AM