MAID: An Ethical and Clinical Panel

Scout Silverstein (they/them), MPH, is a specialist in culturally responsive eating disorder care with a focus on gender-affirming care. Scout builds and administers training to care providers, develops identity-specific clinical programming, and partners with researchers to develop justice-informed methodology. They integrate their lived experience recovering from an eating disorder with operationalizing evidence-based research to support underserved populations seeking care. They are currently serving as Co-Chair of the Professionals in Recovery SIG at Academy for Eating Disorders.

Dr. Anita Federici is a Clinical Psychologist and the Owner of The Centre for Psychology and Emotion Regulation, a private Clinic
specializing in the assessment and treatment of eating disorders, personality disorders, and trauma. Anita has an established reputation for her work as a therapist, clinical trainer, researcher, program. director and consultant.

Kenneth W. Willis, MD, CEDS is a Board Certified psychiatric physician who has been specializing in eating disorder treatment for thirty years. He did his undergraduate work at Harvard, medical school at Dartmouth and completed residency in psychiatry at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. Dr. Willis has been treating eating disorder patients at all levels of care including inpatient, residential, partial hospitalization and outpatient practice. As such he has observed and managed eating disorders from their earliest beginnings to their most severe presentations including life threatening medical complications in hospital settings. He applies a biopsychosocial perspective to the management of eating disorders throughout the course of the illness, including the role of co-occurring problems such as mood, anxiety and trauma disorders, and exacerbating environmental factors.

Dr. Willis has extensive facility with the medical management, psychopharmacological treatment, and individual, group and family psychotherapy of eating disorders. He also has experience as an expert witness in legal cases. While focusing on the uniqueness of each individual, he approaches each patient with compassion, knowledge and respect, and also with a sense of urgency towards the goal of acute stabilization and ultimately full recovery.

Dr. Willis is a member of the American Psychiatric Association, National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) since its inception, and a strong supporter of family involvement in the management and treatment of their loved ones with eating disorders. He is honored as a Family-Endorsed Provider by Resources to Recovery. He is a member of the Academy for Eating Disorders, a former Founding Clinical Advisory Board Member of Project HEAL and a Member of the Senior Advisory Council of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (iaedp), and credentialed by the latter as a Certified Eating Disorders Specialist (CEDS).

Dr. Willis founded prominent Eating Disorder Programs in New Jersey including those of the University Medical Center at Princeton, the first Residential level program in the state (Hidden River) and served as Attending Physician, Medical Director and Supervisor in these settings. He has also served as Medical Director in, and helped to direct the national expansion of eating disorder residential and partial hospitalization facilities and programs and has spoken at national conferences. Dr. Willis currently has a private practice in the Princeton, New Jersey area and New York City and resides in Belle Mead, New Jersey.