Diabetes, Obesity, and Cardiovascular Disease Management: A Comprehensive Summit

The annual Summit brings together a diverse group of healthcare practitioners dedicated to exploring innovative solutions and new strategies for managing diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease.

Unlock the Power of Collaboration

By attending this prestigious event, you will have the opportunity to:

• Identify methods to address health disparities, social stigma, weight bias, and policies related to obesity
• Describe strategies for treating obesity through non-pharmaceutical weight-loss approaches, focusing on lifestyle, diet, and exercise
• Compare the safety and efficacy data for both metabolic and bariatric surgeries and engage patients in shared decision-making conversations about risks and benefits
• Recognize and manage obesity-related complications, including cardiovascular disease, fatty liver disease, gut microbiota, male and female hypogonadism, and breast cancer
• Determine the pros and cons of various clinical practice strategies for obesity management, including primary care interventions, shared medical appointments, weight loss maintenance, and the use of telemedicine and health and fitness apps

Who Should Attend

This Summit is designed for healthcare practitioners, researchers, hospital and corporate administrators, and others interested in obesity-related fields, including endocrinology, family practice, cardiology, internal medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, bariatric surgery, and wellness.

Explore the Program

The comprehensive program features seven informative sessions:

Session 1: Addressing Health Disparities

• Healthcare Disparities: An Overview – Jamy D. Ard, MD
• A Closer Look at Disparity in Obesity Management – Ricardo Correa, MD
• Obesity Advocacy – Kendalle Cobb, MD
• Panel Discussion

Session 2: Lifestyle, Diet, and Exercise

• Overview of the Current State of Obesity Treatment – Christopher Still, DO
• Integrating Behavioral Interventions into Clinical Practice – Leslie J. Heinberg, PhD, MA
• Exercise: What’s the Best Option for Weight Loss? – Matthew Kampert, DO
• Diet: What’s the Best Option for Weight Loss? – Daniel Bessesen, MD
• Panel Discussion

Session 3: Pediatric and Adolescent Obesity

• Recognizing and Managing Eating Disorders in Youth – Ellen Rome, MD
• Childhood Obesity: Targeting the Entire Family – Lina Alkhaled, MD
• Management of Pediatric Obesity: Moving Beyond Diet and Exercise – Jennifer Brubaker, PhD, APRN, CNP, Meridith Jochum PT, DPT, Hanna Leikin, MS, RD, Erin Leneghan, RD, and Taylor N. Stephens, PhD
• Panel Discussion

Session 4: Surgery

• Metabolic Surgery & Cancer – Raul Rosenthal, MD
• Metabolic Surgery & Diabetes. State of the Art – Ricardo Cohen, MD
• Bariatric Operations: Indications and Techniques – Jesse Gutnick, MD
• Health Consequences of Obesity are Reversible by Bariatric Surgery – Ali Aminian, MD
• Non-Surgical Interventional Therapies for Weight Loss – Matt Kroh, MD
• SADI-S as Metabolic Procedure – Antonio Torres, MD

Session 5: Medical Treatments

• Obesity: Time to Take the Bull by the Horns – Bartolome Burguera, MD, PhD
• What’s New with Pharmacotherapy in Obesity – W. Scott Butsch, MD
• Challenges for Anti-obesity Medications Coverage – Daniel Bessesen, MD
• Integral Approach to Obesity Therapy The CCF Experience – Marcio Griebeler, MD

Session 6: Obesity and Complications

• Fatty liver Disease: Different stages, Different Approach? – Jamile Wakim-Fleming, MD
• Male Hypogonadism and Obesity – Kevin Pantalone, DO
• PCOS and Obesity – Ula Abed Alwahab, MD
• Obesity and Cancer – Jame Abraham, MD
• Obesity in the Transgender Population – Shirisha Avadhanula, MD

Session 7: Obesity Workshops

• Obesity of the Future: the Age of Telemedicine and Digital Care – Elena Borukh, MD & Ninoska Peterson, PhD
• Weight Loss Maintenance and How to Avoid Weight Regain – Leslie J. Heinberg, PhD, MA & Daniel Bessesen, MD
• The Full Cycle of Obesity Treatment: From Primary Care to the Specialist – Reena Bose, MD & Samina Yunus, MD

Release Date: December 5, 2022

CME Expiration: December 4, 2024