iaedp™ International Chapter Co-Chairs of Dominican Republic
Dra. Aridia Vásquez, MD, MS
Dra. Aridia Vásquez, MD, MS is a Clinical Nutritionist, Specialist in Eating Disorders and Nutrition Therapy with specialized training in Intuitive Food and Body Image Healing. She is also a Body Image Healer and a renowned lecturer both in Dominican Republic and internationally. She currently serves as the Medical Director of Renovatus by CPE, the first bilingual multidisciplinary treatment center for eating disorders in Dominican Republic. She is also the designer of the first workshop for eating disorders for professionals in primary care, directs the nutritional behavior component of the therapeutic feeding area and eating disorders workshops for families. She is host for “Alimentos para el Alma (Foods for the Soul)” Podcast, a member of the International Federation of Eating Disorders Dietitians (IFEDD) and co-chair of the International Chapter of the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals (iaedp™).
Dra. Zuleika Morillo de Nieto, MD
Dr. Zuleika Morillo de Nieto, MD, is a child and adolescent psychiatrist from the Hospital Clínico de San Carlos, Madrid and a child and adolescent medical psychotherapist from SEPYPNA and Geneve, Switzerland. She is a specialist in adolescent integral health from the Technological University of Santo Domingo, and a specialist in Abuse, Neglect and Wellness from the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. She currently works as a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Clínica Infantil Hospital Dr. Robert Reíd Cabral, is the Clinical Director of the Medical Psychoterapeutic Service of C.P. Enmanuel and general manager of psychological/psychiatric mental health services of the same hospital. Dr. Morillo is the founder and coordinator of the first educational program of child and adolescent psychiatry in Dominican Republic, Professor at Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE) and the Universidad Católica of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She is a member of the Teaching Council and Professor of child psychiatry for the pediatrics and psychiatry residency, at the Robert Reid Cabral Hospital, a member of the European Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and coordinator of its child psychiatry chapter in Dominican Republic. She is the co-chair of the International Chapter of the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals (iaedp™), President of the Latin American League for the Study of Hiperactivity and Attention Deficit Disorder (LILAPETDH) for the 2019-2021 period and president of the Latin American Federation of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Related Fields (FLAPIA0, for the same period.
