Professor Dasha Nicholls

Dasha Nicholls is Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in the Division of Psychiatry at Imperial College London and Honorary Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in Central and Northwest London Foundation Trust. She was National Specialist Advisor on Eating Disorders to NHS England from 2022 – 2026 and is the Clinical and Strategic Director for National Audits and Research at the College Centre for Quality Improvement (CCQI), Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych), which includes leading the National Audit of Eating Disorders. She is Past President of the Academy of Eating Disorders and Past Chair of the RCPsych Eating Disorders Faculty.

Dasha was integral to transformation of young people’s eating disorders services in England, including delivery of training, and also chaired development of the RCPsych guidance on managing medical emergencies in eating disorders (MEED). Her research focuses on prevention and early intervention for young people’s mental health, including those with feeding and eating disorders and living at higher weight. She co- founded the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Surveillance System (CAPSS) for research into rare disorders and events in child mental health through which three important eating disorders studies have been undertaken.

Jenny is one of the UK’s leading carer’s experts in eating disorders. 

Jenny’s passion to help other families evolved from her own experience of caring for her son when he developed anorexia at the age of 12. He is now fully recovered and as a first step she wrote Boys Get Anorexia Too. 

Jenny is also one of the lead authors, alongside Prof Janet Treasure, of the New Maudsley Training manual for eating disorders, an internationally recognised and evidence-based programme for carers. 

Jenny was awarded Carer Contributor of the Year 2016 by the Royal College of Psychiatrists in the UK  in recognition of her ongoing work with carers, eating disorder services and in the wider community particularly focusing on preventative work in schools

Daniel Le Grange, Ph.D., is Benioff UCSF Professor in Children’s Health, and Eating Disorders Director, Department of Psychiatry, at the University of California, San Francisco. He also is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at The University of Chicago Medicine. Daniel is a world-leading clinician in treating adolescents with anorexia nervosa, having developed and pioneered Family Based Therapy (FBT), now regarded as the first-line outpatient therapy for medically stable patients.

In collaboration with a colleague at Stanford University, Daniel developed a clinician’s guide for adolescent AN: Treatment manual for anorexia nervosa: A family-based approach (Guilford Press, 2nd Ed, 2013). This manual is now utilised extensively at a global level. He has also contributed to over 400 journal articles, books, book chapters and abstracts.