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ForwardSymposium Session: Fueling GLP-1 Success: A Team Approach to Maximize Medication Effectiveness
As GLP-1 receptor agonists rapidly transform obesity care, nutrition guidance plays a pivotal role in optimizing outcomes. This session brings together the perspectives of both a registered dietitian and a dual physician assistant/RDN to offer a comprehensive look at the full continuum of GLP-1 care.
From the dietitian lens, participants will learn evidence-based nutrition strategies to enhance GLP-1 outcomes and meet nutrient needs despite reduced appetite. From the prescriber’s side, attendees will gain insight into what occurs during provider encounters including decision-making, patient expectations, provider/visit limitations, and common challenges that arise after medication initiation.
By bridging clinical insight with practical dietary guidance, attendees will gain a deeper understanding of how to collaborate across disciplines, fill care gaps, and deliver more effective, personalized support to patients using GLP-1s.
This is not a webinar or course for purchase - this is a module for credit claiming for our 2026 Spring Symposium attendees and cannot be purchased or taken by non-attendees. These sessions are exclusive to our Symposium; however, the topics may be revisited in the future in the form of a webinar or self-study course.
Learning Objectives
After completing this continuing education activity, health care professionals will be better able to:
- Identify key nutrition priorities that support satiety, preserve lean mass, and improve long-term GLP-1 outcomes.
- Apply evidence-based nutrition strategies to reduce GI side effects and improve GLP-1 adherence.
- Recognize common gaps in nutrition education during GLP-1 prescribing and determine how dietitians can effectively address these gaps through medical nutrition therapy (MNT).
- Explain how interdisciplinary collaboration between prescribers and dietitians improves coordinated care, referrals, and long-term obesity outcomes.
Additional Information
Melissa Mitri, MS, RD, is a registered dietitian-nutritionist, weight-loss and GLP-1 expert, and freelance writer with over 18 years of experience in the health and wellness industry. She owns Melissa Mitri Nutrition, a virtual private practice that helps women achieve sustainable weight loss on or off GLP-1s.
Melissa helps translate complicated scientific research into easy-to-understand terms for the public and is also a sought-after nutrition expert in the media. She believes everyone has the power to improve their health, one small habit at a time.
Colleen Sloan, PA-C, RDN, is a dual-credentialed Physician Assistant and Registered Dietitian with over a decade of experience in pediatrics and obesity medicine. With the medical decision-making of a PA and the nutrition expertise of an RD, Colleen brings a unique and practical perspective to patient care. She’s the creator of the Obesity Medicine Nutrition Course and host of the Exam Room Nutrition podcast, where she helps clinicians deliver advice that’s evidence-based, efficient, and actually works in real life.
Disclosures:
The faculty and planners of this educational activity have no relevant financial relationships 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).
Dietitians:
This activity will also award 1.5 CDR CPEU credits for dietetics. Completion of this RD/DTR profession specific or IPCE activity awards CPEUs (One IPCE credit = One 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 (One 60-minute hour = 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.
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.
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
- 1.25 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.