Iain is our Clinical Lead and Chair of our Clinical Advisory Board. He is a consultant psychiatrist. He has worked for 20 years in public health services in the UK and Ireland. For the past 10 years he was a Consultant in Psychological Medicine at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust specializing in the care of patients with complex physical and mental health conditions, including eating disorders. He is also an Honorary Senior Lecturer at The University of Oxford and works as an advisor and clinical supervisor to a number of charities including Talk for Health, a mental health charity. He is also the founder of Joia! where he uses improv acting classes to help people with anxiety.

Ellen is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis and a licensed psychologist. Her research centers on how best to disseminate evidence-based interventions from research to practice and serve the large number of people in need of care for eating disorders but who are not receiving services through technology. Dr. Fitzsimmons-Craft is a Fellow in the Academy for Eating Disorders and has authored more than 110 peer-reviewed publications that have been cited over 4,500 times in the literature.

Norman is the DEI Officer for the Center for Practice Innovation at Columbia Psychiatry, and co-founder of the Institute for Antiracism and Equity. He has been the National Director for Program Development and the Clinical Director at Reasons Eating Disorder Center in Los Angeles. He has over 20 years of experience in mental healthcare leadership, tech startups, speaking, and advocacy focusing on health equity and antiracism. He completed his B.A. at Yale and his Ph.D. in Psychology at UCLA.

Christine is the Director of the National Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). As the Director of NCEED, Dr. Peat is focused on broadly disseminating education and training on eating disorders to healthcare providers across a variety of disciplines. Her research centers on eating pathology across the spectrum, but with a distinct focus on binge-eating disorder. Dr. Peat is also a licensed psychologist in North Carolina and as such, treats eating disorders across the spectrum.

Dominique is an award winning GP, young people's mental health expert, TEDx speaker, author and educator. She has two decades of clinical experience. She is author of The Student Wellbeing Series (Trigger Press) for young people, and co-author of How to Grow a Grown Up (Penguin Random House) for parents. Dom has done two TEDx talks; ‘What I learnt from 78000 GP consultations with university students’ and ‘Understanding Why’. Dom is a Clinical Advisor for NICE (Eating Disorders Guidelines) and Student Minds, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). Beanbag Health is creating new ways for people to access vital therapy, and I am keen to support them.

Kristin is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the Harvard Medical School and Assistant Psychologist at McLean Hospital. She is a clinical psychologist and statistician whose research and clinical practice focus on eating disorders and other eating-related problems. Her research combines psychology, neuroscience, and epidemiology—and uses innovative methodology and technology—to better understand the development and maintenance of eating disorders and other eating-related problems, with the ultimate goal of developing more effective interventions.

Hope is a bestselling author and multi-award winning campaigner for people with eating disorders. Through her talks, Hope helps young people and employers (including schools, hospitals and businesses) deal with the rising tide of mental health issues. Hope has appeared on national television and has published three books including best-seller Stand Tall Little Girl, documenting her eating disorder journey. Hope's #DumpTheScales petition gathered 150,000 signatures against use of BMI as the primary eligibility measure for eating disorder support from the UK's National Health Service. For four years, Hope managed to keep it hidden, keeping dark secrets from friends and family, before being admitted to hospital in 2007. Her skin was yellowing, her heart was failing. She was barely recognizable. Over the next year, at her lowest ebb, Hope faced the biggest challenge of her life. She had to find the courage to beat her anorexia.