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EDPEN Institute Spring Training 2026

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Join us for this immersive training designed for primary care providers, pediatricians, nutrition professionals, therapists, social workers, adolescent medicine specialists, coaches and all allied health professionals. Residents, interns, and students are welcome to register.

2 Days: Monday, April13th and Tuesday, April 14th, 2026

Breakfast: 6:45-7:45 am | Sessions begin at 8:00 am | Final session ends at 4:30 PM

Location: University of Arizona, HSIB Building 

Networking Reception: Monday April 13th 5:30 - 7:00 pm at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine

Learn from nationally recognized experts in eating disorders and family-centered treatment, and gain practical skills to support patients safely and effectively, even when specialized care isn’t available locally. Come as a single provider or bring your team and connect with hundreds of medical and behavioral health providers for an exclusive, empowering educational experience. You will leave Tucson with the knowledge, confidence, and resources to transform care for every patient who presents with signs of an eating disorder.

Registration Includes:

  • 13 Continuing Education (CE) hours across medical, nutrition, and therapy disciplines 
  • 7 expert instructors sharing cutting-edge, evidence-based approaches
  • 4 hours of hands-on, discipline-specific skills labs for medical, nutrition, or therapy tracks
  • Breakfast, lunch, and 2 coffee/snack breaks included on both days
  • Networking reception on Day 1 (5:30 –7 pm)
  • Walk away with actionable tools, guides, and resources you can implement immediately with patients and families.


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  • Lauren Muhlheim, Psy.D., FAED, CEDS-C
    Lauren Muhlheim, Psy.D., FAED, CEDS is a psychologist, fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders (AED), and certified eating disorder specialist (CEDS) and approved supervisor for the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals (IAEDP). She directs Eating Disorder Therapy LA in Los Angeles. She provides cognitive-behavioral therapy for adults and family-based treatment (FBT) for adolescents and adheres to Health at Every Size® principles. She is certified in FBT for adolescent eating disorders and is the author of When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder. Dr. Muhlheim has held leadership roles in several professional organizations including the AED, IAEDP LA Chapter, and the Los Angeles County Psychological Association. She is an IAEDP core course instructor. She is passionate about removing the weight bias in evidence-based treatments and training other professionals to deliver such treatments.
    Sessions
    • S05 : Introduction to Behavioral Evidenced-Based Treatment: Where FBT and CBT Intersect and Diverge in Eating Disorder Recovery
    • S10 : Navigating Therapeutic Challenges: Insights and Case Reflections
    • S09 : The Nuts and Bolts of Collaborative Eating Disorder Care
    • S13 : What We’ve Learned and How We Can Start Supporting Recovery Today
    • S01 : From Hesitation to Action: Building Confidence in Eating Disorder Care
  • Asha Davidson, MD, MPH
    Dr. Davidson is a double board–certified adolescent medicine physician who specializes in the care of teens and young adults with eating disorders. She has expertise in co-managing anxiety, depression, and other health conditions and provides a weight-inclusive approach. She enjoys working closely with other clinicians in nutrition and psychology to provide comprehensive, culturally sensitive care for patients and their families. A native Houstonian, Dr. Davidson completed her undergraduate education at New York University and received her medical degree from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine in Lubbock, Texas. She returned home to Houston to complete her residency in Pediatrics and her fellowship in Adolescent Medicine at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston. She currently practices in the Division of Adolescent Medicine at UTHealth Houston and serves patients in the Greater Houston area. Her clinical interests in Adolescent Medicine include polycystic ovarian syndrome, menstrual cycle disorders, eating disorders, and comprehensive well-child care. Dr. Davidson and her division serve as consultants for teen patients at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital. She is passionate about health care access, patient education, and provider education due to the sparse formal medical training regarding eating disorders. Outside of her clinical duties, she is assistant program director for the Adolescent Medicine Fellowship and coordinates the Adolescent Medicine rotation for undergraduate and graduate medical trainees.
    Sessions
    • S08 : The Medical Case for Family Involvement: Practical Lessons for Providers Across All Levels of Care
    • S12 : The Medical Lens: Addressing Treatment Challenges Through Case-Based Learning
    • S07 : Building from the Ground Up: Developing an FBT-Aligned PHP/IOP Eating Disorder Program with a Small Team
  • Katherine Grubiak, RDN
    Katherine Grubiak, RDN graduated from the Coordinated Program in Dietetics at The University of Texas at Austin. She first pursued a career in public health nutrition in San Diego and Los Angeles with a maternal-child focus. It was in the same underprivileged area of Los Angeles where she was serving nutritionally that she began to combine her passions, teaching dance and guiding families of dancers to public health clinic access at a foundation called everybody dance! which was awarded by First Lady Michelle Obama the National Arts & Humanities Youth Program Award. Her involvement in multidisciplinary eating disorder treatment started at the UCLA Arthur Ashe Student Health & Wellness Center. Katie developed a unique style of practicing Family Based Treatment (FBT) that was driven by her collaborations with Dr. Lauren Muhlheim at Eating Disorder Therapy LA. In addition, Katie was the eating disorder dietitian at Optimum Performance Institute in Woodland Hills, California which specializes in DBT-focused mental health residential treatment for young adults. Katie is now the Clinical FBT Supervisor for Side By Side Nutrition and is also a contributing clinician in the development, testing, and training of the new Recovery Record Family App which will connect families and clinicians through technology to provide recovery support between sessions. As a master trainer, she is passing on her style of FBT-informed care to other dietitians by co-leading EDRD Pro's FBT-Informed Eating Disorder Treatment: A Course for Dietitians.
    Sessions
    • S01 : From Hesitation to Action: Building Confidence in Eating Disorder Care
    • S04 : Fueling Recovery: The Dietitian’s Role in Urgent Nutritional Rehabilitation and Strengthening Caregiver Capacity for Home-Based Success
    • S11 : Beyond the Meal Plan: Navigating Nutritional Challenges Through Evidence-Based Practice and Case Study Application
    • S09 : The Nuts and Bolts of Collaborative Eating Disorder Care
    • S13 : What We’ve Learned and How We Can Start Supporting Recovery Today
  • Leslie Kaplan, MD, CEDS
    Dr. Leslie Kaplan is a pediatrician specializing in adolescent and young adult medicine. After receiving her medical degree from UCLA, she went on to a Pediatrics Residency at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles, and an Adolescent Medicine Fellowship at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. A Certified Eating Disorder Specialist (CERDS), she has treated eating disorder patients in various health care settings over the last 25+ years, including primary care teen clinics, college health clinics, and eating disorder treatment programs. Currently, she sees adolescents and young adults in her specialized private practice providing medical care to those with eating disorders.
    Sessions
    • S02 : Medical Evaluation Made Practical: Clinical ED Essentials
    • S06 : Medical Monitoring in Outpatient Eating Disorder Care: A Practical Guide for Physicians
    • S03 : From Medical Assessment to Implementation
  • Sarah Torres MS, RD, LD
    Sarah Torres is a Registered Dietitian with over a decade of experience helping individuals and families through meaningful and personalized nutrition care. She earned her undergraduate degree in Nutrition and Foods from Texas State University -San Marcos and went on to complete her Dietetic Internship and Master’s degree in Nutrition and Health Promotion at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts. Throughout her career, Sarah has worked with clients across the life span in a variety of settings both at inpatient and outpatient levels of care. She has provided expert nutrition counseling in areas including child and adolescent nutrition as well as prevention and management of complex medical conditions. She has specialized training in the treatment of eating disorders and has supported children, adolescents and young adults with a wide variety of diagnoses and backgrounds. In the past 2 years, she has played a key role in helping launch the UTHealth Houston Center for Eating Disorders PHP and IOP Program, where she has led efforts to expand access to evidence-based treatments across her community. She is involved in the ongoing development of a food service and nutrition approach grounded in Family-Based Treatment (FBT), which is an evolving effort to make nutrition rehabilitation more practical and family-centered. Her work is grounded in compassion and a deep respect for each person’s individual needs as well as empowering families to be full partners in recovery.
    Sessions
    • S04 : Fueling Recovery: The Dietitian’s Role in Urgent Nutritional Rehabilitation and Strengthening Caregiver Capacity for Home-Based Success
    • S07 : Building from the Ground Up: Developing an FBT-Aligned PHP/IOP Eating Disorder Program with a Small Team
  • Dr. Zach Appenzeller, Psy.D
    Dr. Appenzeller is a Licensed Psychologist and Co-Director of the Texas Institute for Cognitive & Behavioral Therapies (CBTTexas) where he specializes in the evidence-based treatments of eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), anxiety, mood, and personality disorders. His approach is rooted in science and guided by empathy. Previously, Dr. Appenzeller served as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, where he was honored to receive the Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award. He previously directed the UTHealth Houston Center for Eating Disorders, a comprehensive program in the Texas Medical Center offering outpatient, intensive outpatient (IOP), partial hospitalization (PHP), and inpatient care for adolescents and adults with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, ARFID, and OCD that impacts food and eating. Dr. Appenzeller has trained under some of the foremost leaders in the field who shaped his deep appreciation for the science, and art of evidence-based treatment. He completed his predoctoral internship at Ascension Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital’s Center for Anxiety and OCD and Center for Eating Disorders, followed by an NIH-funded postdoctoral fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine’s Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences' OCD and Related Disorders Program. Prior experiences span OCD specialty clinics, DBT programs, hospitals, residential treatment, schools, a university child development clinic, outpatient rehabilitation, and other premier CBT practices across the Washington, DC area.
    Sessions
    • S01 : From Hesitation to Action: Building Confidence in Eating Disorder Care
    • S05 : Introduction to Behavioral Evidenced-Based Treatment: Where FBT and CBT Intersect and Diverge in Eating Disorder Recovery
    • S07 : Building from the Ground Up: Developing an FBT-Aligned PHP/IOP Eating Disorder Program with a Small Team
  • Shelly Bar, MD
    Dr. Bar is a highly qualified and experienced physician with double board certification in Internal Medicine and Adolescent Medicine. Dr. Bar completed her Fellowship at Stanford Medical Center and worked as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Stanford Medical Center. Dr. Bar provides expert care around the medical complications of malnutrition, eating disorders and disordered eating, with a compassionate and specialized, well rounded approach. She is committed to improving patients' overall mental and physical well being.
    Sessions
    • S02 : Medical Evaluation Made Practical: Clinical ED Essentials
    • S06 : Medical Monitoring in Outpatient Eating Disorder Care: A Practical Guide for Physicians
    • S03 : From Medical Assessment to Implementation

CE Info

Earn up to 13 CE Credit Hours

Each professional is responsible for the individual requirements as stipulated by his/her licensing agency. Please contact your individual licensing board/regulatory agency to review continuing education requirements for licensure renewal. Please note: You must attend "live" (in real-time) for the duration of the training to earn CE credits.

After the event, you will receive access to your evaluation and continuing education certificate via a personalized "attendee dashboard" link, hosted on the CE-Go website. This link will be sent to the email account you used to register for the event.

Upon accessing the CE-Go "attendee dashboard", you will be able to:

  • Complete evaluation forms for the event
  • Download your continuing education certificate in a PDF format

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the CE-Go platform, please contact CE-Go at 888-498-5578 or by email at support@ce-go.com Please Note: Emails for this event will come from "support@ce-go.com".

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Target Audience

This educational activity is intended for an interprofessional audience of healthcare providers, including psychologists, social workers, counselors, MFT's, nurses, medical doctors, and dietitians.

Continuing Education Credit Hours are available from the following organizations

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Joint Accreditation
In support of improving patient care, CE Learning Systems is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Commission on Dietetic Registration
Completion of this RD/DTR profession-specific or IPCE activity awards CPEUs (1 IPCE credits = 1 CPEU). If the activity is dietetics related but not targeted to RDs or DTRs, CPEUs may be claimed which are commensurate with participation in contact hours (1 hour/60 minutes = 1 CPEU). RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Logs. Performance Indicator selection is at the learner’s discretion.
Physicians (ACCME) Credit Designation Statement
CE Learning Systems designates this live activity for a maximum of 13 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nurses (ANCC) Credit Designation Statement
Successful completion of this program qualifies for up to 13 contact hours for nurses.
Interprofessional Continuing Education
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.
American Psychological Association
Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.
New York Education Department's State Board for Social Work
CE Learning Systems, LLC  (d/b/a impactce.com) is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #0060.
New York Education Department Board of Creative Arts Therapy
CE Learning Systems, LLC  (d/b/a impactce.com) is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board of Creative Arts Therapy as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #CAT-0008
New York Education Department for Licensed Mental Health Counselors
CE Learning Systems, LLC  (d/b/a impactce.com) is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0072.
New York Education Department Board for Licensed Psychoanalysts
CE Learning Systems, LLC  (d/b/a impactce.com) is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychoanalysts as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #P-0031.
New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology
CE Learning Systems, LLC  (d/b/a impactce.com) is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #PSY-0016.
New York Education Department's State Board for Marriage and Family Therapy
CE Learning Systems, LLC  (d/b/a impactce.com) is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Marriage and Family Therapy as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MFT-0045.

Event Learning Objectives

  • Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to develop individualized treatment goals that address medical stabilization, nutritional rehabilitation, and behavioral recovery.
  • Identify common co-occurring medical complications and diagnoses associated with eating disorders, and formulate appropriate management plans.
  • Apply a “Nutrition First” framework to support medical and psychological stabilization through renourishment, understanding that cognitive recovery follows physiological recovery.
  • Integrate strategies to empower caregivers as active partners in supporting meal completion, emotional regulation, and recovery consistency.
  • Describe appropriate outpatient medical monitoring practices, including vital signs, laboratory evaluations, and cardiac assessments.
  • Identify at least two essential ways that integrating family-centered care at higher levels of treatment strengthens discharge planning and lays the foundation for sustained, long-term recovery in the outpatient setting.

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Where can I find my Attendee Dashboard link?
Upon registering, you should receive an email from support@ceactivities.com with a link to access your Attendee Dashboard. If you do not see it in your inbox, please check your spam/junk folder. If you still cannot locate the email, you may retrieve your Attendee Dashboard link by clicking HERE

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Transferability:

Registrations are transferable to another training date. Fees transferred to another training date are valid for up to 365 days from the original date of purchase. Fees that are not used within 365 days will become void and non refundable. Registration may only be transferred once per purchase. Transfers must be requested prior to the date of training. Transfers will not be permitted after the training has occurred.


CELS Grievance Policy
If a grievance arises pertaining to continuing education activities or processes, please contact Tyler Gibson via confidential email to tyler@celearningsystems.com as soon as possible, so that the nature of the concern may be addressed in a timely fashion.
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