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ForwardRecorded Webinar: Lifestyle Interventions and Anti-Obesity Medications: An Interprofessional Approach to Weight Management
Obesity is a serious chronic disease. According to the CDC, 1 in 5 children and 2 in 5 adults struggle with obesity, and 22 states in the US have an adult obesity prevalence at or above 35%.1 While these statistics are staggering, the health consequences of obesity are even more alarming. People with obesity see an impact on their metabolic health, including a rise in hypertension and cholesterol levels, and an increase in risk for diabetes, CVD, and MASLD.2 The biomechanical effects of obesity – hip, knee, back, joint pain, and arthritis – and the toll this condition takes on a person’s psychological health are equally significant concerns.
Pharmacological interventions are having a profound impact on the obesity epidemic in the US. But where do tried-and-true lifestyle modifications fit into this new paradigm?
Join Neil Skolnik, MD, for an interprofessional webinar that dives deep into how members of the care team can work together to help their patients and clients win the fight against obesity. Dr. Skolnik discusses the rise of obesity as a chronic disease and how the new world of pharmacological interventions should not – and does not – edge out the importance of living a healthy lifestyle. He discusses how adopting healthy eating patterns, exercising more, and preserving lean body mass result in better health outcomes and help maintain a healthy weight when pharmacological interventions are stopped. Learn how to collaborate with health care team members to ensure patients with obesity are armed with the knowledge to lose weight and keep it off safely, all while improving their health overall.
Learning Objectives
After completing this continuing education activity, health care professionals will better be able to:
- Define the root causes and consequences of obesity, including its impacts on metabolic, biomechanical, and mental health.
- Provide dietary advice to patients and clients that will help mitigate the side effects of weight loss drugs.
- Discuss how lifestyle modification may be able to help patients and clients avoid weight regain after stopping pharmacological weight loss interventions.
- Explain the role each interprofessional care team member plays in a patient’s weight loss journey, including how to avoid weight regain.
1. CDC. About Obesity. January 23, 2024. https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/php/about/index.html
2. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Research in Context: Obesity and metabolic health. October 5, 2023. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/research-context-obesity-metabolic-health
Additional Information
Neil Skolnik, MD, is an academic family physician who sees patients and teaches residents and medical students in the family medicine residency program at Jefferson Health - Abington in Abington, Pennsylvania. He is a Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University and Associate Director of the Family Medicine Residency Program at Jefferson Health - Abington.
Dr. Skolnik has written and edited 6 books and was the Humana Press Current Clinical Practice in Primary Care series editor for 15 years, overseeing the development of over 25 titles of medical textbooks. He has published more than 450 articles, columns, poems, essays, and webinars in both medical and lay literature.
Dr. Skolnik lectures nationally on a range of topics, with a special interest in diabetes, obesity, asthma, COPD, exercise in medicine, coronary disease risk factor management, and the medical humanities. He also hosts and produces “Diabetes Core Update,” the American Diabetes Association’s official monthly podcast that reviews the most important new articles to come out in the diabetes literature every month, and “Diabetes Day by Day,” the ADA’s podcast for people with diabetes. He tries to make sure that each day he spends at least 20 minutes playing the guitar and singing.
Disclosures:
Neil Skolnik, MD, faculty for this educational activity, has the following relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose: he serves on the advisory board of and is a consultant for Abbot, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim/Lilly, Lilly, and Novo Nordisk, He is a speaker for AstraZeneca, Heartland Food Products Group, and Lily, and receives research support from Novo Nordisk and Lily. All relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.
The planners for this educational activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
An "ineligible company" includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care products used on or by patients.
In support of improving patient care, Great Valley Publishing Company is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
This activity will also award credit for dietetics (CDR CPEU).
Physicians:
Great Valley Publishing designates this live material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit (s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Dietitians:
This activity will also award 1.0 CDR CPEU credit for dietetics. Completion of this RD/DTR profession specific or IPCE activity awards CPEUs (1 IPCE credit = 1 CPEU).
If the activity is dietetics-related but not targeted to RDs or DTRs, CPEUs may be claimed which are commensurate with participation in contact hours (1 hour/60 minutes = 1 CPEU).
RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Log. Sphere and Competency selection is at the learner's discretion.
Available Credit
- 1.00 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.
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