Marie-Laure Firebaugh, LMSW completed her Masters of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis and is now a Clinical Research Coordinator at Washington University School of Medicine. In this role, she serves as coordinator of the Body U Program, an initiative of the Missouri Eating Disorders Council that offers online eating disorder screening and a suite of tailored online/mobile interventions aimed at promoting healthy behaviors and addressing eating disorders, founded in 2013. Ms. Firebaugh developed a passion for eating disorders awareness, prevention, and evidence-based treatment as a teenager, when she witnessed the devastating effects of these illnesses and their widespread misunderstanding. Ms. Firebaugh has harnessed this passion to fuel her work with the Body U Program. Under her leadership, the number of participating Missouri universities has doubled and the number of students screened for eating disorders by the program has increased by more than 350%. Ms. Firebaugh has made it her mission to integrate Body U into the campus culture on participating campuses and increase awareness of eating disorders through this work. She frequently travels to participating campuses across the state to deliver presentations and workshops on the topic of eating disorders, facilitate panel discussions, and offer on-site eating disorder screening.
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