Navigating Youth Behavioral Health Lunch & Learn: Eating Disorders: Assessment and Management

Speaker: Dr. Chongtham graduated from medical school in India. She completed her General Psychiatry Residency and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Nassau University Medical Center, New York where she also served as the Chief Fellow in her final year. She is board certified in both General Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at the Penn State College of Medicine. Her clinical interests focus on adolescent behavioral health and integrated behavioral health care. She practices at Penn State Health Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Behavioral Health clinic and the Adolescent Medicine clinic in Hershey program. She is also a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist with the Pennsylvania Telephonic Psychiatric Services Program (TiPS).

Learning Objectives: To provide an overview of the etiology of and risk factors for eating disorders. To learn how to recognize disordered eating in the primary…