Dr. Paul Appelbaum

Big Ideas In Eating Disorders

We are thrilled to be joined today by Dr. Paul Appelbaum for the last of episode in our special series focused on the proposed diagnosis of “terminal anorexia nervosa.” Dr. Appelbaum is the Elizabeth K Dollard Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine, and Law at Columbia University and Past President of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, and the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society. A member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Applebaum has received numerous awards for his extraordinary contribution to forensic psychiatry, psychiatric aspects of jurisprudence, clinical trial ethics, capacity assessments, and medical aid in dying. Dr. Appelbaum brings a depth of experience and particular expertise to our discussion of “terminal anorexia nervosa” and the use medical aid in dying in psychiatry more broadly.