Advancements in Obesity Management (AOM)
Published: 20 June 2024
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1h 4m 31s
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1h 1mPart 1 Session 1: Obesity as a Disease, Diagnosis and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Naveed Sattar, Harold Bays, Mikhail Kosiborod, Ozden Gokdemir
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59m 45sPart 2 Session 2: Rapid Fire Sessions - Challenges of Treating Specific CV Disease in Patients With Obesity Naveed Sattar, Linda Mellbin, Neha Pagidipati, Vanita Aroda
Overview
The on-demand version of Advancements in Obesity Management (AOM) 2024 explores the intricate links between obesity and cardiovascular disease, providing key insights in evolving diagnostic and treatment strategies.
This event, led by Course Directors Dr Harold Bays (Louisville Metabolic and Atherosclerosis Research Centre, US) and Prof Naveed Sattar (University of Glasgow, UK) brings together a distinguished group of global faculty members who are renowned experts in the field of obesity and cardiovascular disease.
Split into four sessions, the faculty delve into the complexities of obesity and its multifaceted intricacies, spanning medical, surgical, nutritional, psychological and social dimensions for clinicians treating patients with obesity.
The live version of Advancements in Obesity Management was CME-accredited. This on-demand version is not.
Key Learning Objectives
- To understand the complex and multifactorial relationship between obesity and CV disease, including the biological, behavioural and environmental factors that contribute to this relationship
- To understand the impacts of obesity across the CV disease spectrum
- Apply current treatment methodologies to reduce the impact of obesity on CV disease utilising the multidisciplinary team
Target Audience
- Cardiologists
- Primary Care Physicians
- Endocrinologists
- Diabetologists
- Obesity Specialists
More from this programme
Part 1
Session 1: Obesity as a Disease, Diagnosis and Cardiovascular Disease Risk
The panel introduce a patient living with obesity, including current diagnosis and cardiovascular complications of the disease. Furthermore, the emerging data leading to a revolution in the treatment of obesity is discussed.
Part 2
Session 2: Rapid Fire Sessions - Challenges of Treating Specific CV Disease in Patients With Obesity
In the second session, the panel delve into treatment of specific CV diseases in patients living with obesity. Key co-morbidities discussed include diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia and thrombosis.
Part 3
Session 3: Healthful Nutrition, Physical Activity, Behaviour Modification and MDT
In this third session, the panel explore the biological, environmental, psychological and social factors contributing to obesity.
Part 4
Session 4: Medical and Procedural Options and the Referral Pathways
In the final session, the panel discuss practical considerations in utilising new pharmacological therapies for treating obesity and cover the extensive development pipeline. The current understanding of clinical outcome data and patient referral criteria are also discussed for surgical approaches.
Faculty Biographies
Erin D Michos
Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of Women's Cardiovascular Health
Dr Erin Michos is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, with joint appointment in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is the Director of Women’s Cardiovascular Heath and Associate Director of Preventive Cardiology with the Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease.
Dr Michos is an internationally known expert in Preventive Cardiology and Women’s Health and has authored over 350 publications. Her research has focused on cardiovascular disease among women; coronary artery calcium, inflammatory markers, and other novel biomarkers of cardiovascular risk; lipids; and vitamin D and other supplements. She is an Associate Editor for Circulation and the American Journal of Preventive Cardiology.
Following receipt of her medical degree from Northwestern University, Dr. Michos…
Ozden Gokdemir
Associate Professor
Ozden Gokdemir is an Associate Professor at the Izmir University of Economics - Faculty of Medicine in Izmir, Turkey. She is also Chair of the World Organisation for Family Doctors (WONCA) Working Party on Planetary Health and past lead of the special interest group on mental health at the European Young Family Doctors Movement (EYFMD).
Lydia Alexander
Chief Medical Officer
Dr Lydia Alexander is Chief Medical Officer at Enara Health in San Mateo, California. Dr Alexander earned her medical degree at the UC Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, California; then completed an internal medicine residency at Kaiser Permanente, followed by a chief residency at Kaiser Hospital, both in California. She is trained as a culinary medicine specialist from Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr Alexander is a Diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.
Dr Alexander is the current President of the Obesity Medicine Association (OMA). She was a co-led in the creation of OMA’s speakers bureau and has been highly involved in the work of several OMA committees and subcommittees. Dr Alexander’s research has been published in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine and in Obesity Pillars…
Liesbeth van Rossum
Professor, Obesity and Stress Hormone Research
Prof Liesbeth van Rossum, MD PhD, is internist-endocrinologist and professor in the field of obesity and stress hormone research at the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, Netherlands. She is also co-founder of the Obesity Center CGG, an internationally recognised academic centre of obesity management.
Prof Van Rossum holds various societal and board positions, amongst the European lead of Obesity, Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolism of the European Society for Endocrinology, and president of the Partnership Overweight Netherlands, advising the Dutch Ministry of Health on obesity policy.
She has received multiple international awards and grants for her scientific research, is a frequently invited speaker on scientific congresses, (inter)national media, and published with colleague Mariette Boon an international award-winning…
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