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Ulrike Schmidt

Ulrike Schmidt MD, PhD, FRCPsych, FAED

Psychiatry
London, England, United Kingdom

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Ulrike Schmidt, MD Ph.D. FRCPsych is Professor of Eating Disorders and Head of the Department of Psychological Medicine at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King’s College London (KCL), and a consultant psychiatrist at the Eating Disorders Service at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. One key focus of Professor Schmidt’s research has been on experimental therapeutics - the development of interventions as probes of disease mechanisms as well as tests of efficacy. This work has included the development of brief scalable psychological treatments and preventative interventions for eating disorders, delivered face-to-face or through the internet or mobile phones, and the use of novel ‘brain-directed treatments’, such as non-invasive neuromodulation approaches.  She has also developed an outpatient therapy, MANTRA, which is recommended by NICE as a first-line treatment for adults with anorexia nervosa.

Professor Schmidt undertook her medical studies at the University of Düsseldorf. She came to the UK supported by the German National Scholarship Foundation, with a fellowship for top students. She trained in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital. She then spent five years working as a consultant in community psychiatry. She has been a consultant in the Eating Disorders Service since 1998 and a Professor of Eating Disorders at KCL since 2006. Professor Schmidt was a member of the NICE Eating Disorders Guidelines development group, chair of the Section of Eating Disorders at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and a board member of the Academy for Eating Disorders. 
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