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The founders of the Looking Glass Foundation, a grassroots organization dedicated to making a full service national eating disorder clinic a reality in Vancouver, hope that a series of workshops will inspire funding from donors. The Looking Glass Foundation and SFU’s Centre for Applied Research in Mental Health and Addiction (CARMHA) in the Faculty of Health Sciences are sponsoring the workshops April 24-25 at the university’s downtown Vancouver campus. They are bringing in Michael Levine, a world-renowned author of several books on eating disorders that stress the importance of preventative action. A psychology professor at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, Levine has spent the last two decades studying the ways in which sociocultural factors, such as mass media, influence body image and perpetuate disordered eating. Levine and Elliot Goldner, a CARMHA health sciences professor and former director of Eating Disorders in B.C. at St. Paul’s Hospital, are available for interviews. They can talk about the magnitude of eating disorders in B.C. and the media’s role in creating the problem.

Elliot Goldner, 778.782.5027, 604.868.7786 (cell), egoldner@sfu.ca
Gillian Lurie, 778.782.5148, glurie@sfu.ca (to arrange interviews with conference speakers and for workshop info)