CEED
University of North Carolina Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders
UNC CEED is a world leader in treatment, research, and training.
Dr. Bulik is the Founding Director of the UNC Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders (CEED). The program emerged from the vision and passion of a concerned mother who vowed that no other North Carolina parent should have to struggle to find appropriate care for their child in our State. Since we opened our doors in 2003, the three pillars of the Center remain clinical service, training, and research.
Our treatment team delivers the highest standard of evidence-based care to achieve efficient and sustained clinical improvement, enhanced quality of life, and recovery. We work together with each patient and family to personalize a treatment plan for their unique needs. No two eating disorders are exactly alike, so there is no “one size fits all” treatment for eating disorders.
Alongside our clinical mission, CEED provides outstanding education and training in eating disorders evaluation and treatment to medical students, residents, fellows, graduate students, interns, postdoctoral fellows, and other health profession trainees. Our trainees have gone on to stellar clinical and research careers around the globe.
CEED is world renown for our research. One of the fundamental benefits of a university-based program is the seamless cross talk between the clinical and research teams. We are committed to advancing the science of eating disorders. Our research goals are to develop a deeper understanding of the causes of eating disorders and to create more effective diagnostic, treatment, and prevention strategies for eating disorders. From bench to bedside, basic researchers associated with CEED work to understand the causes of eating disorders and clinical researchers develop and test novel methods to enhance and tailor treatment.
Excellence is woven into the fabric of CEED. Whether we are focusing on an individual patient or conducting global research, we expect excellence and dedication from each team member. Our patients and families, our trainees, and our collaborators deserve nothing less.
CEED members also maintain an award-winning blog UNC Exchanges that covers a broad range of topics relevant to eating disorders.
For More Information
Visit the CEED website: med.unc.edu/psych/eatingdisorders/
Join a Research Study: med.unc.edu/psych/eatingdisorders/research/participate-in-a-study/