Pamela K. Keel, Ph.D., is Distinguished Research Professor and Director of the Eating Behaviors Research Clinic in the Department of Psychology at Florida State University. Dr. Keel has received grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for her research on the nosology, biology, epidemiology, and longitudinal course of bulimic syndromes. She has authored over 250 articles and chapters and 4 books on the topic of eating disorders. Dr. Keel currently serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Eating Disorders and Eating Disorders.
Within her program of research, Dr. Keel defined and characterized Purging Disorder as a potentially new disorder of eating, and this work contributed to the inclusion of Purging Disorder as an Otherwise Specified Feeding or Eating Disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5th Edition (DSM-5) and is the focus of her most recent book published by Oxford University Press in 2020, The Void Inside: Bringing Purging Disorder to Light.
Pamela K. Keel, PhD, joined the staff at EDcatalogue.com for an interview on her book, The Void Inside: Bringing Purging Disorder to Light.
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