Howard Steiger PhD, FAED

Dr. Howard Steiger has been Director of the Eating Disorders Program (EDP) of the Douglas University Institute in Mental Health for the past 25 years, the only large-scale, specialized, clinical-research-teaching program focused on eating disorders in the Province of Quebec. The EDP offers a full range of Inpatient, Day Hospital/Day programs, and Outpatient treatments. Steiger is an active clinician, researcher, and teacher, Full Professor in the Psychiatry Department at McGill University, Associate Member in Psychology at McGill, and Co-President of the Quebec Government’s committee to develop a “Charter for a Healthy and Diversified Body Image”.

He is a past President of the Eating Disorders Research Society, Associate Editor of the International Journal of Eating Disorders, and Executive-Committee member of the Academy for Eating Disorders. Steiger and colleagues have recently been studying a) Genetic and epigenetic influences upon ED development and course. b) System-wide efforts to transfer specialized knowledge on EDs to 1st and 2nd line services and to alter attitudes towards thinness at a population level.