This course will review the basics of Adolescent Obesity, the current treatment modalities, the possible complications and how they can be avoided, and most importantly, tips and tricks for managing this troubling trend.
This course will review the basics of managing the suspected obese adolescent and management of the disease and co-morbidities. Directed by Drs. Walsh, Wulkan and Ponsky, this truly interactive world broadcast will have brief presentations from world leaders in the field followed by heated debates of controversial issues and will allow the viewers to join in the discussions and debates.
Director, Clinical Growth and Transformation; Pediatric Surgeon, Division of Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Surgery, Emory University, Medical Director of Child Wellness at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia
Dr. Tom Inge is a professor and chair of pediatric surgery and Children’s Hospital of Colorado. In addition to his role as division head for pediatric surgery, in 2017 he established the section of adolescent bariatric surgery integrating a surgical treatment option into existing obesity treatment program for adolescents with severe and other special forms of obesity at the Children’s Hospital of Colorado. He has authored or co-authored over 140 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters and provided over 120 invited lectures for national and international professional groups. Dr. Inge has served as a consultant to the NIH and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. He has also served in leadership positions on numerous committees and task forces for surgical and pediatric professional organizations including ASMBS, TOS, AAP, and APSA.
Evan P. Nadler MD serves as Co-Director of the Children’s National Obesity Programs, and is the Director of the Child and Adolescent Weight Loss Surgery Program at Children’s National Health System. He is also a tenured Associate Professor of Surgery, and Pediatrics, at The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences and was one of the founding members of the Childhood Obesity Committee of the American Pediatric Surgery Association. His research pursuits include obesity device development, bariatric surgery for monogenic forms of obesity, and adipocyte signaling via exosomes
Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Medical Director at Nationwide Children's Hospital Center for Healthy Weight & Nutrition
Mac Harmon, MD, PhD is Surgeon in Chief and Medical Director of Pediatric General & Thoracic Surgery at John R. Oishei Children’s Hospital, Chief of Surgery for Kaleida Health, the John E. Fisher Professor of Surgery and the Division Chief of Pediatric Surgery in the Department of Surgery at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo, Program Director of the Pediatric Surgery Fellowship Program, and Director of the Pediatric Surgery Research Laboratory.
Registered Dietitian
Director of the Division of Nutrition, Phyisical Activity & Obesity at the CDC
Associate Professor - Clinical
MD; FAAP
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics; Medical Director, Texas Center for the Prevention of Childhood Obesity; Medical Director, Austin ISD Student Health Services, Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas. Austin, Texas.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition and Research Director of Health4Life, Associate Faculty Member, Nutrition Health Sciences
Chair of the Section of Obesity, Volunteer Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of General and Community Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Private Practice, Pediatric Associates, Kentucky
Bariatric Clinical Director, Surgical Weight Loss Program for Teens Nurse Practicioner, Division of Pediatric and Thoracic Surgery University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
- Recognize how to better identify and work-up the overweight adolescent
- Recognize co-morbidities and quickly identify and prevent worsening illness
- Describe the nutritional and exercise goals at this growing age
- Identify indications, options for surgical management of the adolescent