APA SIG: Obesity | Primary Care and the Medical Neighborhood: approaches to pediatric obesity care

SIG Chair(s)

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  Amy Christison, MD (she/her/hers)

  Associate Professor
  University of Illinois College of Medicine
  Peoria, Illinois, United States
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  Amy Beck, MD MPH (she/her/hers)

  Associate Professor of Pediatrics
  University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
  San Francisco, California, United States

Session Goal: We will use a panel discussion of content experts to showcase and share effective approaches for pediatric obesity care in pediatric primary care settings.

Summary: While current guidelines emphasize early referral of children with obesity to multi-disciplinary intensive health behavior lifestyle interventions, the paucity of such interventions means that most children with obesity will be managed in primary care. Therefore, it is critical to equip primary care clinicians and health systems with evidence-based tools to identify and manage children with obesity in the primary care setting and to connect them with community resources to address obesity related social determinants of health. In this interactive session, we will hear from clinicians and researchers with expertise in: primary care based obesity treatment, health systems approaches to obesity management, and clinic to community connections to address obesity related social determinants of health (i.e. food insecurity). After formal presentations, the SIG chairs will facilitate a Q and A session and also solicit participants to share their own experiences and approaches to obesity management in primary care.

Topic 1: Overview of the evidence for primary-care based interventions for pediatric obesity treatment and implementation strategies at the clinic and health system level
Panelist: Mona Sharifi
Topic 2: Community Connections to address obesity related social determinants of health
Panelist: John Rausch

Presentations:

• 9:15am – 9:45am HST

  Overview of the Evidence for Primary-care Based Interventions to Treat Pediatric Obesity and Implementation Strategies
  

  SIG Speaker: Mona Sharifi, MD, MPH – Yale School of Medicine
• 9:45am – 10:15am HST

  Community Connections to Address Obesity Related Social Determinants of Health
  

  SIG Speaker: Jamie Jeffrey
• 10:15am – 10:45am HST

  Strengthening connections that increase access to care for all
  

  SIG Speaker: Susan Woolford, MD, MPH – University of Michigan Medical School