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Loughborough University launches eating disorders research centre
Posted on 28/12/08

Loughborough University launches eating disorders research centre
Loughborough University has launched a new research centre to help tackle eating disorders and childhood obesity.
LUCRED (Loughborough University Centre for Research into Eating Disorders) is one of the largest research centres in its field.
Led by Dr Caroline Meyer, who has been conducting research into eating disorders for the last 15 years, LUCRED has 11 full-time academics and researchers. The team has well established links with colleagues at the NHS eating disorders services at Leicester General Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital, Birmingham and the Institute of Psychiatry in London, and is working closely with these organisations.
Speaking about the launch of LUCRED Dr Meyer said: The creation of LUCRED is formal recognition of the extensive academic expertise at Loughborough University in the area of eating disorders, obesity, appetite and childhood eating behaviours. Our global partnerships will enable us to make a real difference to how these conditions are understood and treated.
Professor Bob Palmer, Consultant Psychiatrist and Head of the Leicester Eating Disorders Service, said: The creation of LUCRED has opened up opportunities for fruitful collaborations between clinicians and academics that is both unusual and important. I, for one, am excited by the possibilities.
Dr Newman Leung, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Head of the Birmingham and Solihull Outpatient Eating Disorder Service, added: As a clinician in the field of eating disorders, I find working with LUCRED exciting. It provides me with the opportunity to discuss research ideas with a group of expert researchers. Furthermore, the range of high-quality research outputs from the Loughborough group investigating the development and maintenance of eating disorders has significantly informed my clinical practice.
The LUCRED team currently focus on: compulsive exercise in eating disorders; childhood obesity and childhood eating problems; sub-clinical eating disorders; and mealtime protocols for the management of eating disorders.
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