May: National Physical Fitness and Sports Month
The Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion created these resources to celebrate and promote physical activity and the benefits of sports participation.
Obesity Care Week
OCW (Obesity Care Week) was founded in 2015 and has a global vision for a society that understands, respects and accepts the complexities of obesity and values science and clinically-based…
Annual Harvard Nutrition Obesity Symposium: June 5, 2024
Each year the Division of Nutrition and the Nutrition Obesity Research Center at Harvard (NORCH) select a cutting edge topic in nutritional research to present. Authorities on this topic from…
Grand Rounds – TOS
Join The Obesity Society (TOS) on the third Wednesday of each month from 1 to 2 p.m. Eastern to hear from leaders in obesity science on topics ranging from the…
Live Obesity Webinars – OMA
Throughout the year, the Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) will offer accredited, live obesity webinars on topics like clinical obesity treatment applications, leadership and practice management, and reimbursement. Learn critical skills…
Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Obesity Medicine Fellowship
The Bariatric and Metabolic Institute at Cleveland Clinic has created a one-year Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Fellowship for the purpose of training an APP to become a competent, autonomous provider…
Empathy and Patient Engagement
What is the best way to ease someone’s pain and suffering? In this animated 3 minute short, Dr. Brené Brown reminds us that we can only create a genuine empathic…
Creating a Safe Space to Discuss Obesity with Patients, Experts Speak
In a recent AAPA Huddle Ask Me session, two obesity medicine experts answered questions on how to provide high-quality care to patients struggling with obesity, the effectiveness of anti-obesity medication, and how best to support patients who qualify for bariatric surgery.
August 4, 2023