The Institute’s model will be a tiered approach to training. Treatments will all be manualized and introductory training (basic) will generally last ½ day. After the Basic Introduction course, a 1 and ½ day Specific Training program will be offered to those interested.

At the conclusion of the Specific Training program, attendees will need to decide if they wanted to pursue certification in the intervention. The certification program will entail treating cases under the supervision of a certified training therapist. This supervision will consist of review and feedback of recorded cases. Using a standardized measure of fidelity to the model, therapists will need to achieve a passing score on a set number of cases in order to be certified. After certification, therapists will be eligible to apply to become a supervisor.

To become a supervisor, the therapist will need to complete additional cases with satisfactory scores on the fidelity measures. Supervisors can become adjunct faculty to the Institute. Ongoing supervision of the supervisors by the Institute faculty will ensure that supervision processes remain high quality and uniform.

For those supervisors interested in becoming trainers, a period of one year of being a supervisor must pass wherein they receive satisfactory reviews by the Institute faculty based on a systematic review of the supervised cases. Once certified as a trainer, the supervisor may become a faculty member of the Institute and may train others under the Institutes’ auspices.

Daniel le Grange, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience in the Department of Psychiatry, Section for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Director of the Eating Disorders Program at The University of Chicago. He received his doctoral education at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, and trained in family-based treatment for adolescent anorexia nervosa at the Maudsley Hospital in London (1986-1991). At the Maudsley Hospital he was a member of the team who developed the Maudsley Approach as a treatment for early onset anorexia nervosa. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Maudsley Hospital and University of London and introduced the Maudsley Approach to his colleagues when he moved to the United States to do a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Dr. le Grange is the author or co-author of more than 150 research and clinical articles, books, book chapters and abstracts. Most of his scholarly work is in the area of family-based treatment for adolescent eating disorders, including the first study of two outpatient family-based treatments for adolescents with anorexia nervosa. He is co-author of two family-based treatment manuals based on the Maudsley Approach, one for anorexia nervosa and one for bulimia nervosa. He is also co-author of a parent handbook for eating disorders in children and adolescents, as well as a parent case book of family-based treatment for anorexia nervosa. Dr. le Grange was elected Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders in 2002 and over the past few years has held several leadership positions at the Academy. He is also a member of the Eating Disorders Research Society, serves on the clinical and scientific advisory council of the National Eating Disorders Association and is a member of the professional advisory panel of Family Empowered and Supporting Treatment of Eating Disorders.

He is a past recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health (USA) Career Development Award designed to investigate the efficacy of two psychosocial treatments for adolescents with bulimia nervosa. He is currently the principal investigator on two 5-year NIMH multi site studies; one investigates the efficacy of two psychosocial treatments for adolescents with anorexia nervosa and another comparing two established treatments for adolescents with bulimia nervosa. He is also investigator on a 4-year NIMH multi site study of ecological momentary assessment of anorexia nervosa, and a two-year NIH multi site study to develop family-based treatment for pediatric overweight; he is chief investigator on two 3-year National Health & Medical Research Council (Australia) grants evaluating psychosocial treatments for patients with anorexia nervosa, and a past recipient of an International Research Fellowship from the University of Sydney. Dr. le Grange has lectured extensively in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and South Africa.

Renee Hoste, Ph.D. is an Instructor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience in the Department of Psychiatry at The University of Chicago. After earning her Bachelor's degree at the University of Michigan, Dr. Hoste received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University and completed her clinical psychology internship at The University of Chicago. Dr. Hoste has been part of the Eating Disorders Team at The University of Chicago for eight years, and in that time has served as a study therapist on three NIMH-funded treatment studies comparing family-based treatment to other forms of psychotherapy. Her research interests include the impact of the family on treatment outcome for adolescent eating disorders, the role of expressed emotion in treatment outcome, and cross-cultural differences in expressed emotion.

Katharine L. Loeb, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Psychology and Associate Director of the PhD Program in Clinical Psychology at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Loeb received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Rutgers University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons. She is the founding Director and current Director of Research of the Mount Sinai Eating and Weight Disorders Program, and Co-Chair of the Child and Adolescent Special Interest Group of the Academy for Eating Disorders. Dr. Loeb has published extensively in the field of eating disorders. Her current research grants and interests involve the early identification and treatment of anorexia nervosa, and the adaptation of family based treatment for overweight and obese adolescents.　

Kristen Anderson, MA, LSW is the Manager of the University of Chicago Eating Disorders Program in Chicago, Illinois. Kristen has worked with Dr. Daniel le Grange on the Treatment for Adolescent Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa research studies for the past five years. Kristen obtained her B.A. from the Honors Program in Psychology at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor and was awarded her masters degree in social service administration from the University of Chicago. Kristen is primarily interested in the assessment and treatment of adolescent eating disorders.