Doug Sellman
Doug Sellman, MBChB, PhD, FRANZCP, FAChAM, is a psychiatrist and addiction medicine specialist who has been working in the addiction treatment field in New Zealand since 1985. He has been Director of the National Addiction Centre (NAC), University of Otago, Christchurch, since its inception in 1996, and promoted within the University to a Personal Chair in 2005. The main work focus in recent years has been on alcohol and food, involving the diagnosis, aetiology treatment and prevention of alcoholism and food addiction/obesity. Email: doug.sellman@otago.ac.nz
Food Addiction Main Session  Friday, 13 June 2014 Start 2:00pm Duration: 20mins Baytrust The learned behaviour of compulsive overeating (food addiction) is at the heart of the obesity epidemic. This talk will briefly cover the diagnosis, aetiology and treatment/recovery from food addiction. The New Alcoholism- DSM-5, 2013 - Implications for Treatment  Concurrent Workshop Repeated Friday, 13 June 2014 Start 4:30pm Duration: 55mins Room 1 Start 5:35pm Duration: 55mins Room 1 DSM-5 (2013), the latest version of the psychiatric �bible� has finally responded to clinical observations and research findings of the past 30 years and collapsed the previous two diagnoses of alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence back into one unitary diagnosis, alcohol use disorder � the new alcoholism. This workshop will describe an historical context but mainly focus on the clinical implications of this recent positive diagnostic development.