ABOUT EATING RECOVERY CENTER Eating Recovery Center (ERC) is the only national, vertically integrated, health care system dedicated to the treatment of serious eating and related disorders at any stage of the illness. ERC offers best-in-class treatment programs for all patients, no matter their age or gender, struggling from anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, eating and weight disorder, unspecified eating disorders, as well as comorbid, co-occurring and dual diagnoses. Led by the world’s leading experts in eating disorder treatment, ERC provides a full spectrum of eating disorder recovery services through an unmatched network of multiple locations across seven states. ABOUT JULIE FRIEDMAN, Ph.D. Dr. Julie Friedman is a health psychologist whose specialties include Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Night Eating Syndrome, Binge Eating Disorder, Bulimia Nervosa, pre-and post-bariatric surgery behavioral care, and obesity and weight management. She currently serves as Executive Director of Eating Recovery Centers Binge Eating Treatment Program. She received her B.S. in Psychology from Northwestern University and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Illinois Institute of Technology. She is an Assistant Professor at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.