2010-2011
President
Dr. Leora Pinhas (Toronto, Ontario)
Dr. Leora Pinhas is a psychiatrist in the Eating Disorders Program at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario, and an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include the diagnosis and treatment of eating disorders and obesity in children and adolescents. She is the co-editor of the book “Help for Eating Disorders: a parent’s guide to symptoms, causes and treatments”. Dr. Pinhas is one of the founding members of the Eating Disorders Association of Canada. She is currently working on her PhD in epidemiology.
President-Elect
Dr. David Pilon (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Dr. David Pilon is a Clinical Psychologist in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has been affiliated with the Capital Health Eating Disorder Clinic in Halifax since 1990 and is crossappointed to the faculty of medicine in psychiatry at Dalhousie University. Dr. Pilon was instrumental in establishing the Clinic’s group-based treatment program. He is the Founding Chair of the Nova Scotia Eating Disorder Treatment Network and has consulted to various settings and regions on the development of eating disorder treatment services. In 2008, Dr. Pilon assumed the program leadership for all of the Specialty Mental Health Services of Capital Health. He has participated on the Steering Committee of the Eating Disorder Association of Canada since 2006 and has been a Board of Directors member since 2008. He enjoys his role of EDAC-ATAC President-elect and the opportunity to meet and learn from clinicians across the country.
Secretary-Treasurer
Dr. Eric Vickar (Winnipeg, Manitoba)
Director-At-Large
Jadine Cairns (Vancouver, British Columbia)
Jadine Cairns has been a dietitian at the BC Children’s Hospital for the past 23 years, specializing in the area of Eating Disorders. She also has a nutritional counselling private practice where she sees children and adults for eating disorders, disordered eating and weight management. Jadine received her Master of Science in Human Nutrition from the University of BC in 2003. Her dissertation was on eating disorders nutrition counselling in Canada. She has presented at national and international conferences and has also published in peer review journals. Her work as a dietitian has been profiled in a highschool text book and she has written and starred in a TV series on managing food for diverse needs in a family. She lives in Vancouver with her husband and two school age sons.