Dr Sarah Maguire
BSc Psych Hons, MA, DCP, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist & Director at InsideOut Institute, SYDNEY
Dr Maguire serves as Director of the InsideOut Institute – Australia’s first institute for research and clinical excellence in eating disorders that aims to provide every Australian living with an eating disorder, access to the best possible care, by re-thinking eating disorders from the “inside out”.
Dr Maguire is a clinical psychologist, researcher, educator and policy maker with 20 years of experience in the field of eating disorders. She has worked across multiple settings including hospital, community, policy and research.
Dr Maguire obtained her Ph.D in 2009 for her research into a staging model for Anorexia Nervosa. She received the AH Martin Prize for outstanding doctoral student in the School of Psychology, University of Sydney.
She is a superviser of clinical teams and trainees, as well as a specialist clinical trainer and board approved supervisor.
Dr Maguire has played a significant role in the improvement of services to people with eating disorders, in particular where there were none. In her role as a senior advisor to the NSW Ministry of Health she was instrumental in securing funding for the NSW Service Plan for People with Eating Disorders. Along with her team at the Institute and her partners across the NSW Health system, she leads the large-scale health system reform through the implementation of NSW Health Policy in relation to eating disorders.
She holds appointments at the Schools of Medicine and Psychology at the University of Sydney. She is a member of the international Eating Disorders Research Society and in 2014 she was a member of the Scientific Committee for the American Academy of Eating Disorders. She is an invited member of the Federal Government’s Mental Health Standing Committee for the National Eating Disorders Collaboration (NEDC) and the Federal Medicare Review Taskforce (Eating Disorders Committee).
Dr Maguire has over 30 published peer review articles and has given many presentations at international eating disorders conferences. At the InsideOut Institute she leads a research team and supervises PhD students with a broad research agenda, including biological, health systems, health economics, prevention, public health promotion, clinical intervention and translational research.
Dr Maguire and her team are passionate about changing the way treating disorders are perceived and treated within the health system and our community. They aim to address this by driving clinical excellence, providing policy leadership, leading research that changes practice and outcomes, and translating research into practice.