Description
April 27, 2026 | 12:00 – 1:00 PM
Understanding Eating Disorders in Youth and the Intersection They Have With Substance Use
Description:
This webinar will give the attendee an overview on eating disorders in youth and young adults and delve into how the two diagnosis sometimes overlap.
Learning Objectives:
- To understand the types of eating disorders
- To understand treatment of eating disorders.
- To understand how eating disorder behaviors sometimes overlap with substance use.
Presenter: Jonathan Fanburg, MD
Dr. Fanburg is a Pediatrician and Adolescent Medicine specialist who has worked in Maine for over 20 years seeing children, adolescent, and young adults. Presently, he is the Chief of the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Maine Medical Center. Clinically, he sees patients aged 10-26 years old for eating disorders, substance use, adolescent gynecology, mental health, and acute and well visits. In the community he is school physician or medical director for 5 school systems, the University of Southern Maine.
Continuing Medical Education:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education and CCSME. The Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education is accredited by the Maine Medical Association Committee on Continuing Medical Education and Accreditation to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education designates this regularly scheduled series for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
*Nurses and Nurse Practitioners will be awarded a certificate of participation with a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™.
This course has been approved by Co-Occurring Collaborative Serving Maine (CCSME), as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 1 educational credits. NAADAC Provider #324712, CCSME is responsible for all aspects of the programming.
Contact Hours 1 contact hours for social workers, licensed clinical professional counselors, and behavioral health professionals.
1 Category 1 Contact hours for psychologists. CCSME is a pre-approved sponsor and provider of Professional Education Activities for Psychologists.
1 contract hours CHES. CCSME is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission of Health Education Credentialing, Inc.
