Dr. Li Xueni and Lin Zhang, MS, RDN, CNSC, CEDS

Li Xueni, MD, graduated from Peking University Health Science Center. She has worked at Peking University Sixth Hospital for nearly 30 years and has been in the field of eating disorders diagnosis, treatment and research for 18 years. In 2006, she participated in the development of a standardized inpatient diagnosis and treatment model for eating disorders. In 2008, she first opened a specialized outpatient clinic for eating disorders. In 2011, she participated in the construction of China’s first specialized ward for eating disorders, which has continued to operate to this day. In 2015, she participated in the compilation of the Chinese Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Eating Disorders. Currently, she serves as the deputy director of the Eating Disorders Diagnosis and Treatment Center and the director of the inpatient unit.

Since 2012, she has devoted a significant amount of her energy to training caregivers in coping skills for eating disorders, establishing support groups for caregivers, and gradually cultivating experienced caregivers to become volunteers, providing support to families with eating disorders in need.

Starting from 2015, she has trained over 20 specialized psychotherapists for eating disorders and maintained ongoing teamwork with more than ten of them, conducting FBT, DBT, and other therapeutic interventions. Since 2020, she has collaborated with nutritionist Zhang Lin and joined the Chinese Nutrition Society, vigorously promoting the development of the profession of specialized nutritionists for eating disorders. In June 2024, along with Zhang Lin, they invited Ms. Elisabeth Peterson to successfully host the first training program for specialized nutritionists in eating disorders.

In terms of promoting public awareness of eating disorders in China through science popularization, she has also made tremendous efforts. Through interviews on television programs, media interviews, video recordings, and course recordings, she has advocated for early identification and coping strategies for eating disorders and related psychosomatic issues, achieving positive social effects.

Her efforts to join iaedp and become an International Chapter Chair of CHINA a represents another step forward in promoting international exchanges and securing more resources for the diagnosis and treatment of eating disorders.

Her email address: lixueni@bjmu.edu.cn

Lin Zhang, MS, RDN, CNSC,CEDS has been working as a clinical dietitian in United Family Hospitals, which is the most well-known private health care system in China, for 7 years. She is specialized in critical care nutrition and has been counseling eating disorders patients for over 4000 hours. She is very proud of being the first Certified Eating Disorders Specialist (CEDS) in China, and is very passionate to promote the awareness of “the importance of nutrition treatment in Eating disorders.”

Lin is a comprehensive clinical dietitian. Her areas of interest include nutrition therapy for critical care, eating disorder, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, trauma and burns, enteral/parental nutrition, weight management, obstetrics and pediatrics wellbeing. She started to intensively counseling eating disorders patients since 2018, and has been working as a core member of multi-disciplinary team on the treatment of many severe anorexic inpatients.

Lin received her master’s degree in Dietetics, from Ohio University, completed her residency in Central California, and became a Registered Dietitian and Nutritionist (RDN) licensed by both the US Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) and Chinese Nutrition Society in 2017. She is also a Certified Nutrition Support Clinician (CNSC) issued by American Society of Parental and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN). Lin is member of AND, Chinese Nutrition Society, ASPEN, and IAEDP.

Lin zhang Contact information:

Email: zhang.lin@ufh.com.cn

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