Target Audience: Healthcare professionals, including physicians and dietitians treating patients, as well as individuals wanting to learn further their knowledge and skills to formulate and implement an effective and comprehensive strategy for sustainable obesity management by using a patient-centered approach- including motivational interviewing for lifestyle counseling, understanding impacts of weight bias, and setting sustainable goals for obesity care.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the importance of patient-first language and impacts of weight bias
- Learn the impacts of nutrition, physical activity, sleep and emotional health on obesity as a disease and how to create a personalized lifestyle plan to optimize the obesity management strategy
- Learn tips and tricks on how to personalize treatment plans to your patients individual needs and preferences
- Implement sustainable treatment goals for obesity treatment beyond BMI by using body composition analysis, lab review and remission of chronic medical conditions as markers
