The Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre is very honoured to announced that Professor Beate Herpetz-Dahlmann will be giving the 10th Birgit Olsson Lecture 16th March 2022. The title for her lecture is “Anorexia nervosa – a model for the interplay of body and mind”.

Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann has specialised in paediatrics and child and adolescent psychiatry. Since 1997 she has been Chair and Clinical Director of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy at the Technical Excellence University of Aachen. For more than 30 years her research field has been the aetiology and treatment of adolescent AN. She co-authored the German guidelines for eating disorders in 2018 and established the new treatment strategies day patient and home treatment for anorexia nervosa. She is member of the anorexia nervosa research group of the European Brain Council.

Previously she has been President of the German Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Board member of the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and of the German Society of Eating Disorders as well as a member of the expert council “Neurosciences” of the German Research Society (DFG).

PROGRAMME

Lecture 14:00-15:30
Welcome and Opening Address- Eva Billstedt, Professor and Director of the Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre
The tenth Birgit Olsson Lecture

Professor Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann "Anorexia nervosa – a model for the interplay of body and mind”

Questions & Answers session

Closing remarks Professor Christopher Gillberg


-This event is free of charge

-Venue: Arvid Carlsson Lecture Hall, Academicum, Medicinaregatan 3, Gothenburg

-Language: The event will be held in English

-Seats are allocated on a first come first serve basis

-Cancellation: If you register for this event and are then unable to attend, please kindly inform us.