Event Date: Thursday, January 15, 2026 from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. PST
Presenter: Lindsey Ricciardi, PHD
Location: Attend from your desktop, or phone via Zoom
Physicians carry many of the personality characteristics (often strengths) that increase one's risk for developing an eating disorder. The culture of medicine, including weight stigma, adds fuel to this risk. Eating disorders are linked to substantially higher suicidal ideation, attempts, and completed suicides. The reasons for these connections will be explored and alternative, evidence-based approaches to eating, health, bodies, and weight will be presented.
Click here to register for the session and CME credit.
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Describe the shared risk factors that make physicians vulnerable to disordered eating and suicidality.
Explain Joiner’s Interpersonal Theory of Suicide and its relevance to suicide risk among eating disorders.
Contribute to effective and ethical patient care by identifying how internalized weight bias and associated moral injury manifest in medical culture and contribute to burnout, distress, eating disorders, and suicide risk.
Explore lesser-known size and weight-inclusive approaches to personal and professional wellness and eating disorder prevention (e.g., Intuitive Eating, Health at Every Size, Body Liberation).
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As an accredited provider of continuing medical education through the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine must ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all its educational activities. In order to assure that information is presented in a scientific and objective manner, The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine requires that anyone in a position to control or influence the content of an accredited activity disclose all financial relationships within the prior 24 months with any commercial or proprietary entity producing health care goods or services relevant to the content being planned or presented. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated. Following are those disclosures.
The following planner/presenter has disclosed the following relationship with an ineligible entity.
Colleen Camenisch - Ownership Interest: equilibrium-MBSR, LLC, Mindfulness Standard, LLC
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CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT*
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine and Nevada Physician Wellness Coalition (NPWC). The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education to physicians.
The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This program provides 1 CME credits toward the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners' requirement for 2 hours of training related to suicide prevention, intervention and detection every 4 years.
The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine approves this program for 1 hour of nursing continuing education credit.
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