About the 2010 Keynote Speaker

Anita Johnston, Ph.D., is Senior Expert and weekly Clinical Consultant to Focus Healthcare of Tennessee, a Center for Eating Disorders.  Focus is a residential inpatient facility located in Chattanooga, Tennessee specializing in treating women, eighteen and older, suffering from anorexia, bulimia, binge eating and associated disorders. Dr. Johnston is also the founder and clinical director of the ‘Ai Pono Intensive Out-patient Eating Disorders Program in Honolulu. In 1986, she developed Hawaii’s first in-patient eating disorders treatment program at Kahi Mohala Hospital.  She also co-founded the Anorexia & Bulimia Center of Hawaii and has served as its director since 1982. She is a world-renowned speaker and workshop leader with a private practice in women’s issues in Kailua, Hawaii. Dr. Johnston is the author of Eating in the Light of the Moon and Eating Disorders as Messengers of the Soul in The Psychospiritual Clinician’s Handbook.