Assessment of Disordered Eating among Bariatric Surgery Patients

The learning objectives for this presentation are as follows:

Describe typical changes in disordered eating from pre- to post-surgery
Explain the impact of post-operative disordered eating on physical and mental health outcomes
List tools to assess disordered eating in bariatric surgery patients
Understand how to detect disordered eating following bariatric surgery

Speaker

Dr. Stephanie Cassin, PhD, C.Psych.

Professor and Director of Clinical Training
Department of Psychology
Toronto Metropolitan University (*recently renamed)

Dr. Cassin is a Clinical and Health Psychologist who received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Calgary. She is Professor of Psychology and Director of Clinical Training at Toronto Metropolitan University, and Director of the Healthy Eating and Lifestyle (HEAL) Lab. In addition, she holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Prior to working in academia, she was a staff clinical psychologist in the Bariatric Surgery Program at University Health Network. Dr. Cassin’s research interests are in the area of disordered eating, food addiction, obesity, and bariatric surgery. Her current program of research focuses primarily on psychosocial predictors of bariatric surgery outcome, and psychosocial interventions with the potential to improve outcomes.