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Dr Olena Said

Research Associate / OPEN Trial Manager

Biography

Lena joined King's College London in August 2021 as a trial manager for the OPEN Trial (Olanzapine for young PEople with aNorexia nervosa: An open-label feasibility study to test recruitment, treatment acceptance, adherence, safety and outcome measures assessment and patients' experience to prepare for a definitive randomized placebo-controlled trial).

Prior to joining King's Lena has worked as a general practitioner, medical educator and clinical researcher. She has an interest in Eating Disorders, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases. She obtained an MSc in Eating Disorders and Clinical Nutrition from UCL in 2021 with a research project focusing on the impact of COVID-19 on day care outcomes in Eating Disorders. She also has a PhD in Clinical Pharmacology with research focusing on the impact of GLP-1 analogues on the inflammatory cytokines in overweight patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

Research

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Centre for Research in Eating And Weight Disorders (CREW)

The Eating Disorders Research Group aims to find out more about the neurobiological, genetic and psychological causes and consequences of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and other eating disorders, and to use that knowledge to develop new and better treatments.

Research

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Centre for Research in Eating And Weight Disorders (CREW)

The Eating Disorders Research Group aims to find out more about the neurobiological, genetic and psychological causes and consequences of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and other eating disorders, and to use that knowledge to develop new and better treatments.