Nadia Micali, Prof. of Psychiatry, MD, MRCPsych, Ph.D., FAED

Posted on January 26, 2024 • 2 min read • 221 words

Head of Research at Center for eating and feeding Disorders Research in Ballerup (Denmark)

Nadia is one of the world-leading researchers in the field of child and adolescent eating disorders. She is Head of Center for Eating and feeding Disorders Research in Denmark, and a professor of Psychiatry at the University of Copenhagen. Prof Micali has a long standing clinical and research expertise (of almost 20 years) of looking after patients with eating disorders and their families. Prof Micali was trained at the Maudsley Hospital, London, UK, in Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2000-2008), where she specialised in eating disorders and worked as consultant psychiatrist of the child and adolescent and adult programs (2008-2011). She worked between 2002 and 2008 with Prof Ivan Eisler, who developed FT-AN, which (together with its US counterpart FBT) is the treatment with the largest evidence base for adolescent AN. Between 2015-2017 she was medical director of the clinical and research program for eating disorders (across all ages) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, US. In 2018 following her taking up leadership of the Hospital-based Child and adolescent psychiatry department at HUG, Geneva, she founded the clinical feeding and eating disorders treatment program for children and adolescents in Geneva and led this until her departure from Geneva in 2022. Throughout the years Nadia has worked with carers, sufferers, and families on several research projects.