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ForwardWebinar: An Interprofessional Approach to Obesity Care
Effective management of obesity requires a comprehensive, interprofessional approach, where care team members implement collaborative and diverse strategies for individualized patient care. The right combination of integrated nutrition interventions and medical treatment can be the key to success when working with patients with obesity.
Join Kathrin Eliot, PhD, RDN, LD, FAND, and Melissa Shoemaker, MD, MPH, for a webinar on Wednesday, November 13, 2024, from 2-3:30 p.m. ET, as they discuss personalized nutrition counseling and pharmacological treatments, surgical options, and the importance of addressing underlying metabolic and psychological factors when supporting patients with obesity management. Through case studies and interactive sessions, learn to leverage the strengths of each team member, enhance communication, and foster synergy in developing tailored treatment plans that consider individual patient needs, challenges in adherence, and long-term outcomes. Optimize patient outcomes by implementing an approach that combines expertise from both dietitians and physicians in a unified effort towards improved health outcomes for individuals living with obesity.
Learning Objectives
After completing this continuing education activity, health care professionals will better be able to:
- Describe the roles and responsibilities of the interprofessional health care team when working with patients with overweight and obesity.
- Discuss care techniques that identify barriers, resolve conflicts, and promote patient-centered care.
- Counsel patients and clients with overweight or obesity on the nutrition and medical/surgical intervention options in order to assist with the healthful management of their weight.
- Implement interprofessional collaborative practice principles to the care of a patient with overweight or obesity for improved health outcomes.
Additional Information
Katie Eliot, PhD, RDN, LD, FAND, is an associate professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Oklahoma (OU) Health Sciences. Dr. Eliot’s primary focus of teaching and scholarship is on interprofessional education and collaborative practice. She published and presented nationally on interprofessional education topics ranging from course development and student learning assessment to exploring interprofessional competencies in obesity care.
Dr. Eliot is highly involved in leadership at the national level, serving as the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) alliance representative to the National Academy of Medicine Global Forum on Health Professions Education and the Interprofessional Education Collaborative Competency Revision Workgroup. As a tireless advocate for promoting interprofessional learning outcomes in health professional students, Dr. Eliot serves as a faculty sponsor for Unity Clinic, a student-run interprofessional clinic on the OU campus and the Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities interdisciplinary program. She is a 2023 winner of the AND Medallion Award for her efforts to increase interprofessional education (IPE) into the profession.
Melissa Shoemaker, MD, MPH, is an assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center. She specializes in obesity medicine, lifestyle medicine, and preventive medicine.
Dr. Shoemaker earned her medical degree at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. She completed a residency in general preventive medicine at the University of California San Diego Medical Center and received advanced training through a fellowship in obesity medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She also holds a master's degree in public health from San Diego State University. She joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2023.
Dr. Shoemaker’s research interests center around population health with an emphasis on prevention, nutritional health, and weight loss initiatives, and she has delivered multiple presentations on these and related topics.
Disclosures:
The faculty and 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 healthcare products used by or on 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 1.5 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 1.5 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.
Interprofessional:
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 1.5 IPCE credits for learning and change.
Available Credit
- 1.50 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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