Obesity Management 2016
Obesity Management 2016
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Target Audience
This program should be of substantial interest to: endocrinologists and endocrine fellows, primary care and internal medicine physicians, physician’s assistants, nurse practitioners and other healthcare professionals treating overweight and obese individuals.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this educational activity, learners will be able to:
Mechanisms Underlying Weight Loss With Bariatric Surgery: Lessons from Animal Models
- Describe the role of hormonal and neural mechanisms in the regulation of appetite, food intake, and body weight
What’s the Best Diet for Weight Loss?
- Describe the role of hormonal and neural mechanisms in the regulation of appetite, food intake, and body weight
- Recognize the behavioral approaches to obesity management that are most impactful in practice
How to Use Commercial Weight Loss Programs to Treat Obesity in Private Practice
- Develop an approach to choosing a treatment strategy that is most optimal for managing obesity
- Discuss the usefulness of lifestyle and behavioral changes to reduce weight
Weight Bias: Implications for Clinical Practice
- Describe the effects of weight bias
- Develop intervention strategies to reduce weight bias in the clinical setting
Evidence-Based Pharmacotherapy for Obesity
- Describe the mechanism of action, safety, and efficacy of new medical therapies for obesity
- Discuss the clinical data on new pharmaceutical treatment options for obesity
- Describe the weight consequences of certain pharmacologic therapies for obesity
Update on Weight Loss Surgery
- Explain the comparative effectiveness of the surgical treatments for obesity, including what is known about mechanisms of action
New Weight Loss “Devices”
- Explain the differences between the various devices
- Discuss the pros and cons of each device in the clinical setting
Cases for Pharmacotherapy
- Explore how newly-approved and emerging weight- loss drugs may be appropriately integrated into a weight-loss program
- Apply updated practice guidelines in a clinical setting
- Manage OTC drugs with prescribed pharmacologic agents and their effect on weight loss efforts
Management of Diabetes and Hypoglycemia in the Post-Bariatric Surgery Patient
- Select appropriate medical therapy options for the co-management of diabetes and obesity
- Explain the role new agents have in assisting current therapeutic challenges
- Evaluate clinical practice guidelines on diabetes and management of comorbidities and predict how these will evolve in light of new data and clinical experience
How Do I Get My Patients to Move?
- Explain the methods available for promoting lasting behavior change
- Recognize the behavioral approaches to obesity management that are most impactful in practice
- Describe the most common issues in behavior change
Obesity and Weight Gain in Pregnancy: Optimizing Maternal and Infant Outcomes
- Counsel obese patients prior to and during pregnancy
- Discuss the short and long-term risks associated with pregnancy and obesity
- Describe the best prevention or treatment options available to women looking to conceive
How to Set Up an Obesity Clinic in Private Practice
- Describe the processes and successes for setting up an obesity clinic
Peri-Operative Management of the Bariatric Surgery Patient
- Discuss the diagnosis and management of common peri-operative issues in the bariatric surgery patient
Gut Hormones and Obesity: Etiology and Potential Drug Treatments
- Explain the relation of gut microbiota in the risk of obesity and potential treatment pathway
Additional Information
Program Chairs
Richard Atkinson, Jr., MD; Virginia Commonwealth Univ
Daniel Bessesen, MD, Univ of Colorado Sch of Med
Marc Cornier, MD; Univ of Colorado Sch of Med
William T. Donahoo, MD; Kaiser Permanente Colorado/Univ of Colorado Sch of Med
Presenters
Caroline Apovian, MD; Boston Univ
Louis Aronne, MD; Weill Cornell Med Coll
Linda Barbour, MD; Univ of Colorado Sch of Med
Steven Blair, PED; Univ of South Carolina, Arnold Sch of Public Health
Stacy Brethauer, MD; Cleveland Clin
David D'Alessio, MD; Duke Univ Med Ctr
Nikhil Dhurandhar, PhD; Texas Tech Univ
Gary Foster, PhD; Weight Watchers International
Jeffrey Mechanick, MD; Icahn Sch of Med at Mount Sinai
Mary-Elizabeth Patti, MD; Joslin Diabetes Ctr
Rebecca Puhl, PhD; Univ of Connecticut, Rudd Ctr for Food Policy & Obesity
Philip Schauer, MD; Cleveland Clin
Randy Seeley, PhD; Univ of Michigan Med Sch
DISCLOSURE POLICY
The faculty, committee members, and staff who are in position to control the content of this activity are required to disclose to the Endocrine Society and to learners any relevant financial relationship(s) of the individual or spouse/partner that have occurred within the last 12 months with any commercial interest(s) whose products or services are related to the CME content. Financial relationships are defined by remuneration in any amount from the commercial interest(s) in the form of grants; research support; consulting fees; salary; ownership interest (e.g., stocks, stock options, or ownership interest excluding diversified mutual funds); honoraria or other payments for participation in speakers' bureaus, advisory boards, or boards of directors; or other financial benefits. The intent of this disclosure is not to prevent CME planners with relevant financial relationships from planning or delivery of content, but rather to provide learners with information that allows them to make their own judgments of whether these financial relationships may have influenced the educational activity with regard to exposition or conclusion.
The Endocrine Society has reviewed all disclosures and resolved or managed all identified conflicts of interest, as applicable.
The faculty reported the following relevant financial relationship(s) during the content development process for this activity:
Caroline Apovian, MD: Advisory Group Member, Enteromedics, Gelesis, Novo Nordisk, Nutrisystem, Scientific Intake, Zafgen; Advisory Group Member & Investigator, Orexigen; Advisory Group Member & Speaker Bureau Member, Takeda; Consultant, Science Smart LLC; Investigator, Aspire Bariatrics, GI Dynamics, MYOS Coroporation
Louis Aronne, MD: Board Member, Jamieson Labs, MYOS Corporation; Researcher, Aspire Bariatrics, Eisai; Scientific Board Member, Gelesis, GI Dynamics, Jovia Health, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, Zafgen
Daniel Bessesen, MD: Data Safety Monitoring Board, EnteroMedics Inc.
Steven Blair, PED: Medical/Scientific Advisory Board Member, Cancer Foundation for Life, Clarity Project, Sports Surgery Clinic-Dublin; Researcher, National Institutes of Health, Body Media, The Coca-Cola Company, General Mills, U.S. Department of Defense; Royalties, Human Kinetics
Nikhil Dhurandhar, PhD: Advisory Group Member, Novo Nordisk
Gary Foster, PhD: Chief Scientific Officer, Weight Watchers
Mary-Elizabeth Patti, MD: Collaborator, Xeris Pharmaceutical; Principal Investigator, AstraZeneca, Medimmune
Philip Schauer, MD: Principal Investigator, Ethicon, Medtronic (Covidien), Pacira; Speaker, Ethicon
Randy Seeley, PhD: Ad Hoc Consultant, Boehringer Ingelheim, Daiichi Sankyo, Nestle, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Takeda; Ad Hoc Consultant and Principal Investigator, Johnson & Johnson, Sanofi; Advisory Group Member and Principal Investigator, Novo Nordisk
The following faculty reported no relevant financial relationships: Linda Barbour, MD; Marc Cornier, MD; David D'Alessio, MD; William T. Donahoo, MD; Jeffrey Mechanick, MD; Rebecca Puhl, PhD
The Endocrine Society staff associated with the development of content for this activity reported no relevant financial relationships.
Available Credit
- 6.75 ABIM MOC
- 6.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
- 6.75 CME Certificate of Participation