The UPenn Center for Weight and Eating Disorders (CWED) is located at the Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania. It is an outpatient program that was founded 60 years ago, and focuses on the research and treatment of eating disorders such as binge eating disorder, bulimia nervosa, and night eating syndrome, and weight related issues such as behavioral weight management, body image disturbance, and bariatric surgery (pre- and post-surgical therapeutic support). The outpatient treatment they provide is intensive and individualized, including utilizing treatment modalities from Europe.
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only outpatient now which is a shame as erc for bed only inpatient treatment
I have Binge Eating disorder. I see that UPenn is listed as specializing in BED, however it is very disconcerting to see that they also focus on bariatric surgery. Their website doesn’t seem to show that they believe in HAES. It just seems that everywhere I look I cannot find what I need locally. Very frustrating.
They’re website is very old. It may be worth calling them to find out if they’ve changed.
IMO the local Monte Nido in the Phillie suburbs did okay with BED. That wasn’t why I was there but other clients were and they seemed to find it helpful.
Hi Anne! Me too. If you go to the Princeton review page and scroll down about halfway, you’ll see a couple conversations about this program there. There is a mom who had a really good experience at UPenn Perelman with her daughter. I have to try to figure out how to cross-post the convo so it shows up here too now that we have a page for it, once I have a bit more free time. But in the meantime, if you reply to one of her posts there she should see it!
I’m definitely interested in learning more as well. Especially because, despite how dangerous (not to mention abjectly life ruining) bulimia and bingeing are, there’s not that many programs that specialize in it, but it seems like this one does.