Treating Individuals with Eating Disorders: Psychiatric Pearls

Ames, IA US
April 30, 2025

Overview

Purpose

Mary Greeley Medical Center Grand Rounds is a multi-disciplinary clinical activity that maintains, develops, or increases the knowledge, skills, professional performance, and relationships a physician uses to provide services for patients, the public, or the profession.

Target Audience

Physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, medical students (rotating), non-medical students (rotating), and healthcare administrators.

Learning Objectives

  1. Describe the impact malnutrition can have on the brain.
  2. Review potential vulnerabilities, initiating factors and maintaining factors for eating disorders.
  3. Identify psychiatric medication options and management strategies that may be useful in the treatment of individuals with eating disorders.
  4. Identify how weight stigma/weight bias may impact a patient and their care.

Speaker

Maryrose Bauschka, MD, CEDS

Dr. Maryrose Bauschka is the Medical Director for the Eating Recovery Center's (ERC) Chicago Downtown locations. She has been an integral part of ERC Pathlight and ACUTE since 2019 and recently relocated to Chicago in February 2024 to work at our Downtown locations.

Dr. Bauschka earned her medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and completed her adult psychiatry residency at the University of Utah. She spent two years as an adult inpatient psychiatrist at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute before joining the Eating Recovery Center in Denver, where she worked with the ACUTE Center for Eating Disorders & Severe Malnutrition. She has extensive experience treating adults with mood and anxiety disorders, eating disorders, PTSD, personality disorders, and substance use disorders.

A passionate educator, Dr. Bauschka has held faculty positions at Rush Medical College, the University of Utah, and the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She is a member of the American Psychiatric Association and the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals, earning her Certified Eating Disorders Specialist (CEDS) certification in 2022.

Full biography.

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AOA Category 2­A
Course opens: 
04/30/2025
Course expires: 
04/30/2025
Event starts: 
04/30/2025 - 12:10pm CDT
Event ends: 
04/30/2025 - 1:10pm CDT
Cost:
$0.00
Rating: 
0

Location

Mary Greeley Medical Center
1111 Duff Ave.
Ames, IA 50010
United States
+1 (515) 239-2011

CE Credits

Accreditation Statements

  • DO: Des Moines University Medicine and Health Sciences (DMU) is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) to provide osteopathic continuing medical education for physicians. DMU designates this activity for a maximum of 1.0 AOA Category 2-A credits and will report CME and specialty credits commensurate with the extent of the physician’s participation in this activity.

EDUCATIONAL GRANTS

No ineligible company provided financial support for this continuing education activity.

DISCLOSURES

The speaker(s) will disclose if any pharmaceuticals, medical procedures, or devices discussed are investigational or unapproved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The activity director is responsible for determining educational content and selecting speakers. 

Relevant to the content of this educational activity, the following individual(s) have no conflict(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.  

  • Maryrose Bauschka, MD, CEDS - Speaker

CME Committee

  • No Mary Greeley Medical Center CME Committee member who planned this activity has any financial relationship to disclose relating to the content. 

Gifts to the Mary Greeley Medical Center Foundation from Mary Greeley Medical Center, McFarland Clinic, and Availa Bank support this program. The content and selection of speaker(s) are the responsibility of the Mary Greeley Medical Center for Continuing Medical Education Committee, not the sponsors of this program.

DISCLAIMER

The information provided in this activity is for continuing education purposes only. It is not a substitute for a healthcare provider's independent medical judgment regarding diagnostic and treatment options for a specific patient's medical condition. 

Available Credit

  • 1.00 AOA Category 2­A

Register/Take course

Price

Cost:
$0.00
Please login or Create an Account to take this course.