iaedp Voices on Air: Passing the Torch at Eating Disorders Review

This conversation marks a new chapter for Eating Disorders Review (EDR), iaedp’s open-access professional journal. Incoming Editor-in-Chief Dr. Anne O’Melia shares a vision built around translation and usability: pairing research summaries with concrete “how-to” steps, case vignettes, decision trees, and short skill builders clinicians can put to work immediately. She outlines plans for a reliable publication cadence, a blinded peer-review process, concise evidence summaries with clear limits, and an ethics note where needed. The episode also honors longtime leaders: Managing Editor Mary K. Stein and senior editors Drs. Russell Marks, Michael Devlin, John Levitt, and Steven Wunderlich, whose decades of stewardship shaped EDR into a trusted resource.

What’s inside

• EDR’s refreshed structure: “Research to Real Life,” “Clinical Corner,” “Intersectional Insights,” and 10-minute skill builders with “3 things to try this week.”

• A thematic series approach by discipline (primary care, psychiatry, psychotherapy, nutrition, etc.).

• Tools for under-resourced settings: assessment checklists, sample scripts, documentation language, and decision trees.

• Quality and trust: blinded peer review, transparent evidence summaries, and reader feedback loops to keep content relevant.

• Community building: early- and mid-career contributor networks and a multidisciplinary editorial board.

Why listen
If you want quicker paths from study to session—and practical, evidence-informed tools you can use this week—this episode lays out exactly how EDR will help.