Obesity: Additional Topics for Advanced Study On Demand

Columbia Cornell Obesity: Additional Topics for Advanced Study

Course Details

Material Expiration Date: Materials will be available for viewing for up to 36 months after the course expiration date. Extended viewing is only available to participants who complete the course before expiration.
Material Access: All course PDFs can be downloaded. Videos must be viewed on the course website and are not available for download. 
Format: On-demand, video-recorded lectures

Target Audience

This activity is intended for all health professionals: physicians, dentists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and more who have a general knowledge of obesity assessment and treatment and have taken courses in the fundamentals of obesity, such as our "Obesity: Etiology, Prevention, and Treatment" course.

For physicians interested in obtaining obesity medicine certification through the American Board of Obesity Medicine (ABOM), this course counts towards the ABOM requirement of at least 30 hours of live CME credit on the topic of obesity from a partner organization.

Course Overview

Obesity: Additional Topics for Advanced Study is designed for learners with a general knowledge of obesity assessment and treatment who have studied the fundamentals of obesity in courses such as our “Obesity: Etiology, Prevention, and Treatment." Gain a more complete understanding of the science, sociology, and latest clinical approaches to obesity and equip yourself with new tools for treating patients with obesity and overweight.

The lectures will cover topics such as sleep, stress, and obesity, lifestyle interventions in treating obesity, nutrition and diet, obesity in cultural context, weight loss and regain, the relationship between aging and metabolism, obesity during pregnancy, childhood obesity, the relationship between cancer and obesity, health insurance and obesity treatment, delivering patient-centered care, and more.

Course Agenda and Learning Objectives 

Course Agenda
Upon conclusion of this activity, participants will be better able to:
  1. Recognize population challenges and discover techniques to help deliver patient-centered care.  
  2. Identify behavior and lifestyle tools for weight management.  
  3. Discuss the detrimental effects of weight stigma on psychological and physical health. 
  4. Discuss the effects of chronic stress and sleep deprivation on obesity.  
  5. Recognize the complex variety and functions of adipose tissue, the environment's effects on adipose tissue, and the intricacies of brown-adipose-tissue activation. 
  6. Explain the neurological, biological, and behavioral connections between obesity and addiction. 
  7. Describe the gut-brain axis and how our modern food environment affects this system.    
  8. List contributors to childhood obesity, examine its immediate and long-term health effects, and discover a broad range of treatment approaches. 
  9. Guide mothers with obesity in planning and successfully carrying out their pregnancies. 
  10. Discuss research on various eating patterns and understand their effects on weight and cardiometabolic health.  
  11. Describe the composition of healthy weight loss, the biology of body-weight regulation, and the effects of weight cycling on physiology and metabolism. 
  12. Discuss the co-occurrence of cancer and obesity and explore dietary intervention treatments. 

Course Pricing

Physicians: $750.00
Discounted rates are available for non-physician healthcare professionals, fellows, residents, students, Columbia/Cornell personnel, and past Columbia Cornell course participants. Please inquire with the Institute of Human Nutrition at ihnce@cumc.columbia.edu for discount pricing codes. 

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Accreditation Statement

The Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation Statement

The Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons designates this enduring material for a maximum of 33.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 33.5 medical knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the activity, with individual assessments of the participant and feedback to the participant, enables the participant to earn 33.5 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABP MOC credit.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME and Self-Assessment requirement(s) of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.

    Disclosures

    All those involved in planning and delivering this education will disclose all financial relationships in the past 24 months with ineligible companies. An ineligible company is any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. For each financial relationship, disclosure will include the name of the ineligible company and the nature of the financial relationship(s).

    Caroline M Apovian, MD, FACP, FACN, DABOM Altimmune, Inc. Advisory Board; Janssen, Advisory Board; NeuroBo Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Advisory Board; Novo Nordisk, Inc., Advisory Board, Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, Advisory Board; Xeno Biosciences, Advisory Board; Zafgen Inc., Advisory Board

    Eamonn Quigley, MD, FRCP, FACP, MACG, FRCPI 4D Pharma, Consultant; Biocodex, Consultant

    All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.

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