Business and Treatment Essentials (12.25 CME)

Wednesday, April 19

1:00-2:00 PM

The Plant-powered Diet: Why Vegetarian Meals Promote Healing and How You Can Help Patients Bridge the Gap between Diet Advice and Lasting Dietary Change

Anita Bermann, MS, RDN, CD

2:00-3:00 PM

Mediterranean Diet

Carrie Dennett, MPH, RDN, CD

3:00-4:00 PM

Crucial CARBversations: Teaching Your Patients the Low-down on Low-carb

Laura Eggerichs, RDN, CD, and Megan Moore, RDN, CD

4:00-4:15 PM

Break

4:15-5:15 PM

Insulin Resistance

Nicholas Pennings, DO, Dipl. ABOM

5:15-6:00 PM

Findings from the Clinical Practice and Compensation Survey

Deborah Bade Horn, DO, MPH, MFOMA, Dipl. ABOM

Thursday, April 20

8:00-8:45 AM

Obesity Algorithm Overview (Part 1)

Harold Bays, MD, FTOS, FACC, FACE, FNLA, Dipl. ABOM

8:45-9:45 AM

Obesity Algorithm Case Studies (Part 1)

Krishna Doniparthi, MD, FAARM, FOMA, Dipl. ABOM

9:45-10:30 AM

Break

10:30-11:15 AM

Obesity Algorithm Overview (Part 2)

Harold Bays, MD, FTOS, FACC, FACE, FNLA, Dipl. ABOM

11:15 AM-12:15 PM

Obesity Algorithm Case Studies (Part 2)

Angela Fitch, MD, FACP, Dipl. ABOM

12:15-1:15 PM

Lunch

1:15-2:00 PM

Legal and Risk Considerations When Prescribing, Administering, and Dispensing Drugs in Your Practice

Jerry Canaan, JD

2:00-2:45 PM

Legal Approach for In-house Dispensing

W. Allen Rader, MD, MFOMA

2:45-3:45 PM

Utilization of NPs and PAs in Obesity Medicine: A Team Approach

Amy Ingersoll, PA-C, MMS

3:45-4:30 PM

Break

4:30-6:00 PM

Payment for Treating Obesity in Primary Care

Thomas McKnight, MD, MPH

Spring Obesity Summit (17.75 CME)

Friday, April 21

8:00-9:00 AM

Medication-induced Weight Gain

Chris Still, DO, FACN, FACP, Dipl. ABOM

9:00-10:00 AM

Overview of Obesity and Renal Disease

Sankar Navaneethan, MD, MS, MPH

10:00-11:00 AM

Break

11:00 AM-12:00 PM

NAFLD: The Next Medical Tsunami?

Guy Neff, MD

12:00-1:00 PM

PCOS for the Obesity Medicine Specialist

Jeffrey Sicat, MD, FACE, Dipl. ABOM

1:00-2:00 PM

Lunch

2:00-3:00 PM

Endocrine Disruptors as a Possible Barrier to Weight Loss

Sheela Sathyanarayana, MD, MPH

3:00-4:00 PM

Pediatric Obesity Pharmacotherapy

Gitanjali Srivastava, MD, FAAP, FACP, Dipl. ABOM

4:00-4:30 PM

Break

4:30-5:30 PM

New Insights into the Variable Effectiveness of Levothyroxine Monotherapy for Hypothyroidism

Elizabeth McAninch, MD

Saturday, April 22

8:00-9:00 AM

Advanced Lipids and Inflammatory Biomarkers

Tara Dall, MD, FNLA

9:00-10:00 AM

Reward-induced Eating

Frank Greenway, MD

10:00-10:15 AM

Break

10:15-11:15 AM

Which Bariatric Procedure Is Best for Specific Patients and How to Help Patients Prepare: An Obesity Medicine Clinician’s Perspective

Richard Lindquist, MD, FAASP, FOMA, Dipl. ABOM

11:15 AM-12:15 PM

Which Bariatric Procedure Is Best for Specific Patients and How to Help Patients Prepare: A Bariatric Surgeon’s Perspective

Brian Sung, MD, FACS, FASMBS, Dipl. ABOM

12:15-2:15 PM

Lunch Break*

2:15-3:15 PM

HCG: The Diet That Won’t Die

Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA, Dipl. ABOM

3:15-4:15 PM

Complications of Aggressive Lifestyle Intervention

Angela Fitch, MD, FACP, Dipl. ABOM

4:15-5:15 PM

Lipedema

Karen Herbst, MD

Sunday, April 23

8:00-8:45 AM

POWER Registry

Shelley Kirk, PhD, RD, LD

8:45-9:45 AM

The Benefits and Safety of a Low-carb Diet

Stephen D. Phinney, MD, PhD

9:45-10:00 AM

Break

10:00-11:00 AM

The Potential Dangers of a High Intake of Saturated Fat

Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, DrPH

11:00 AM-12:00 PM

Point-Counterpoint Panel Discussion on Saturated Fat

Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, DrPH, and Stephen D. Phinney, MD, PhD