Obesity Medicine 2017
Start
Wed, 19 Apr 2017, 08:00
End
Sun, 23 Apr 2017, 12:00
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Take Your Career in Obesity Medicine to the Next Level
The education offered at Obesity Medicine 2017 is designed to help you establish and run a sustainable practice that incorporates aspects of obesity medicine. If you’re a physician, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, or other health care professional who wants to properly advise your patients about losing weight, reducing the symptoms of obesity, and achieving better health, you won’t want to miss this exceptional obesity conference.
Business and Treatment Essentials (12.25 CME) | ||
Wednesday, April 19 | ||
1:00-2:00 PM | The Plant-powered Diet: Why Vegetarian Meals Promote Healing and How You Can Help Patients Bridge the Gap between Diet Advice and Lasting Dietary Change | Anita Bermann, MS, RDN, CD |
2:00-3:00 PM | Mediterranean Diet | Carrie Dennett, MPH, RDN, CD |
3:00-4:00 PM | Crucial CARBversations: Teaching Your Patients the Low-down on Low-carb | Laura Eggerichs, RDN, CD, and Megan Moore, RDN, CD |
4:00-4:15 PM | Break | |
4:15-5:15 PM | Insulin Resistance | Nicholas Pennings, DO, Dipl. ABOM |
5:15-6:00 PM | Findings from the Clinical Practice and Compensation Survey | Deborah Bade Horn, DO, MPH, MFOMA, Dipl. ABOM |
Thursday, April 20 | ||
8:00-8:45 AM | Obesity Algorithm Overview (Part 1) | Harold Bays, MD, FTOS, FACC, FACE, FNLA, Dipl. ABOM |
8:45-9:45 AM | Obesity Algorithm Case Studies (Part 1) | Krishna Doniparthi, MD, FAARM, FOMA, Dipl. ABOM |
9:45-10:30 AM | Break | |
10:30-11:15 AM | Obesity Algorithm Overview (Part 2) | Harold Bays, MD, FTOS, FACC, FACE, FNLA, Dipl. ABOM |
11:15 AM-12:15 PM | Obesity Algorithm Case Studies (Part 2) | Angela Fitch, MD, FACP, Dipl. ABOM |
12:15-1:15 PM | Lunch | |
1:15-2:00 PM | Legal and Risk Considerations When Prescribing, Administering, and Dispensing Drugs in Your Practice | Jerry Canaan, JD |
2:00-2:45 PM | Legal Approach for In-house Dispensing | W. Allen Rader, MD, MFOMA |
2:45-3:45 PM | Utilization of NPs and PAs in Obesity Medicine: A Team Approach | Amy Ingersoll, PA-C, MMS |
3:45-4:30 PM | Break | |
4:30-6:00 PM | Payment for Treating Obesity in Primary Care | Thomas McKnight, MD, MPH |
Spring Obesity Summit (17.75 CME) | ||
Friday, April 21 | ||
8:00-9:00 AM | Medication-induced Weight Gain | Chris Still, DO, FACN, FACP, Dipl. ABOM |
9:00-10:00 AM | Overview of Obesity and Renal Disease | Sankar Navaneethan, MD, MS, MPH |
10:00-11:00 AM | Break | |
11:00 AM-12:00 PM | NAFLD: The Next Medical Tsunami? | Guy Neff, MD |
12:00-1:00 PM | PCOS for the Obesity Medicine Specialist | Jeffrey Sicat, MD, FACE, Dipl. ABOM |
1:00-2:00 PM | Lunch | |
2:00-3:00 PM | Endocrine Disruptors as a Possible Barrier to Weight Loss | Sheela Sathyanarayana, MD, MPH |
3:00-4:00 PM | Pediatric Obesity Pharmacotherapy | Gitanjali Srivastava, MD, FAAP, FACP, Dipl. ABOM |
4:00-4:30 PM | Break | |
4:30-5:30 PM | New Insights into the Variable Effectiveness of Levothyroxine Monotherapy for Hypothyroidism | Elizabeth McAninch, MD |
Saturday, April 22 | ||
8:00-9:00 AM | Advanced Lipids and Inflammatory Biomarkers | Tara Dall, MD, FNLA |
9:00-10:00 AM | Reward-induced Eating | Frank Greenway, MD |
10:00-10:15 AM | Break | |
10:15-11:15 AM | Which Bariatric Procedure Is Best for Specific Patients and How to Help Patients Prepare: An Obesity Medicine Clinician’s Perspective | Richard Lindquist, MD, FAASP, FOMA, Dipl. ABOM |
11:15 AM-12:15 PM | Which Bariatric Procedure Is Best for Specific Patients and How to Help Patients Prepare: A Bariatric Surgeon’s Perspective | Brian Sung, MD, FACS, FASMBS, Dipl. ABOM |
12:15-2:15 PM | Lunch Break* | |
2:15-3:15 PM | HCG: The Diet That Won’t Die | Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA, Dipl. ABOM |
3:15-4:15 PM | Complications of Aggressive Lifestyle Intervention | Angela Fitch, MD, FACP, Dipl. ABOM |
4:15-5:15 PM | Lipedema | Karen Herbst, MD |
Sunday, April 23 | ||
8:00-8:45 AM | POWER Registry | Shelley Kirk, PhD, RD, LD |
8:45-9:45 AM | The Benefits and Safety of a Low-carb Diet | Stephen D. Phinney, MD, PhD |
9:45-10:00 AM | Break | |
10:00-11:00 AM | The Potential Dangers of a High Intake of Saturated Fat | Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, DrPH |
11:00 AM-12:00 PM | Point-Counterpoint Panel Discussion on Saturated Fat | Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, DrPH, and Stephen D. Phinney, MD, PhD |
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