1. Discuss available and emerging therapeutic approaches to treat and manage obesity
2. Evaluate the role of genetics and environmental factors in the rise of obesity amongst children and adults
3. Analyze approaches to ensuring weight loss/maintenance and treatment adherence in overweight and obese patients

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1. Speaker: Ellen Schur, MD, Director, Clinical Research Unit, UW Medicine Diabetes Institute Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine
2. Speaker: Kimberly Gudzune, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine John Hopkins Medicine
3. Speaker: Jamy Ard, MD Professor of Epidemiology and Prevention Co-Director, Weight Management Center at Wake Forest Baptist Health
4. Speaker: Dominica Rubino, MD, Washington Center for Weight Management and Research
5. Speaker: Shaneeta Johnson, MD Director of the Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery Program, and Residency Associate Program Director at Morehouse School of Medicine
6. Speaker: Ania Jastreboff, MD Associate Professor Director of weight management and obesity prevention

STATEMENT OF INDEPENDENCE
As a provider of CME accredited by the ACCME, the Endocrine Society has a policy of ensuring that the content and quality of this educational activity are balanced, independent, objective, and scientifically rigorous. The scientific content of this activity was developed under the supervision of the Endocrine Society's EBR faculty. There are no commercial supporters of this activity, and no commercial entities have had influence over the planning of this CME activity.

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 (eg, 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 regarding exposition or conclusion. 

The following faculty reported relevant financial relationships:

Kimberly Gudzune, Faculty American Board of Obesity Medicine, Medical Director, Eli Lilly, Advisory Board, Novo Nordisk, Grantee Eli Lilly - variety of products, services, licensing agreement with OSI; Novo Nordisk - various products and services. Conflict resolved by peer review to confirm the content is objective, evidence-based, and free of commercial bias.

Jamy Ard, Program Chair/Faculty Nestle Healthcare Nutrition, Consultant, Research support, Eli Lilly, Consultant, Research funding, Boehringer Ingelheim, Consultant, Research funding, Epitome Inc, Research funding, UnitedHealth Group R&D, Consultant, Research funding, KVKTech, Research support, WW, Research support, Novo Nordisk, Advisory board, Consultant Nestle - variety of products, services; Eli Lilly - variety of products, services, licensing agreement with OSI; BI - collaboration with Gubra to ID and validate target and innovative peptides for treatment of obesity; Epitome - self-administered treatment for overweight and obesity; UnitedHealth Group - weight loss program, JOIN for ME pediatric obesity program; KVKTech - prescription medicine for obesity; Novo Nordisk - various products and services. Conflicts resolved by peer review to confirm the content is objective, evidence-based, and free of commercial bias. 

Domenica Rubino, Faculty Novo Nordisk- Investigator (Institutional); Speaker; Consultant/Scientific Advisor; writing support; shareholder (private, independent of work with NN) Boehringer Ingelheim- Investigator (Institutional) Astra Zeneca- Investigator (Institutional) Obesinov, SARL- Investigator grant (Institutional) Medscape/WebMD- Honorarium Peer View- Honorarium Endocrine Society-Honorarium Novo Nordisk - various products and services, BI - collaboration with Gubra to ID and validate target and innovative peptides for treatment of obesity; Astra Zeneca - Partner with Regeron on weight loss, various products and services. Conflicts resolved by peer review to confirm the content is objective, evidence-based, and free of commercial bias. 

Shaneeta Johnson, Faculty Pfizer Advisory Board, Limited Pfizer - anti-obesity drugs. Conflict resolved by peer review to confirm the content is objective, evidence-based, and free of commercial bias. 

Ania Jastreboff, Faculty Novo Nordisk, Advisory Board/Consultant Eli Lilly, Advisory Board/Consultant Intellihealth, Consultant, stock options Boehringer Ingelheim, Consultant, Scholar Rock, Consultant, Pfizer, Advisory Board/Consultant, American Diabetes Association, Research Grant Support Novo Nordisk, Multi-Center Trial, Research Support Eli Lilly, Multi-Center Trial, Research Support NIH/NIDDK, Research Grant Support Spouse Disclosures: Elucidata, Advisory Board/Consultant, stock options Pangolin, Advisory Board/Consultant, stock options Agios, Advisory Board/Consultant, NIH/NIDDK, Research Grant Support Novo Nordisk - various products and services, Eli Lilly - variety of products, services, licensing agreement with OSI; Intellihealth - obesity treatment platform; BI - collaboration with Gubra to ID and validate target and innovative peptides for treatment of obesity; Pfizer - anti-obesity drugs; Eludicata - blood platelets and obesity. Conflict resolved by peer review to confirm the content is objective, evidence-based, and free of commercial bias. 

The following faculty reported no relevant financial relationships: Ellen Schur, MD, MS

The following peer reviewer reported no relevant financial relationships: Taraneh Soleymani, MD

The following Endocrine staff report no relevant financial relationships: Kristine Metter, CAE; Hannah Andrews, CAE; and Brandon Roccio. 


ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF COMMERCIAL SUPPORT
This educational activity is supported by educational grant from Novo Nordisk and Rhythm.