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Back to Episodes24. Screening and Managing Eating disorders in Primary care with Dr. Sarah Garwood
Description
Dr. Elise Fallucco interviews Dr. Sarah Garwood, a professor of pediatrics who specializes in eating disorders, about screening and managing eating disorders in primary care. They discuss screening tools, medical workup, and practical steps that pediatric clinicians can take to support children with eating disorders.
- Practical tools to identify kids who are struggling with eating disorders including:
- growth chart changes
- SCOFF - 5 question eating disorder screening tool
- NIAS - 9 item avoidance screener
- what pediatricians can do to help patients with eating disorders
- medical work-up
- comprehensive labs
- establish regular eating patterns
- when to hospitalize a child/teen with eating disorders
Dr. Garwood is a Professor of Pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine who specializes in eating disorders. Dr. Garwood’s work through the Adolescent Center in the Department of Pediatrics focuses on the unique health care needs of adolescents. In August 2017, Dr. Garwood co-founded the Washington University Transgender Center at St Louis Children’s Hospital in order to support comprehensive medical and mental health services for transgender children and young adults. Advocacy related to this role has included a TEDx Talk in 2019
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