Obesity Mini-Series Ep 1: Defining Obesity, Challenging Weight Bias

Digging deep into historical, structural, and individual bias in our care of patients with obesity, with obesity medicine physician-scientist Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford.

Learning Objectives:
       1. Define obesity.
       2. Summarize concerns about the origin and use of BMI, and the need for modified utilization in some patient groups.
       3. Describe why people-first language surrounding obesity is important.
       4. Explain how bias, whether explicit or implicit, leads to health disparities between patients with and without obesity.

Course Director and Senior Producer: Dr. Maggie Kozman
Co-Hosts: Dr. Brittäne Parker and Sanika Walimbe
Guest: Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford
Production Assistant: Lynn Nguyen
Theme Music: Chris Dingman
Sponsored by: American College of Physicians
Educational Grant from: Novo Nordisk, Inc.

Special thanks to Dr. Davoren Chick, Monica Lizarraga, Dr. Charles Hamori, Dr. Tammy Lin, Dr. Tiffany Leung, and Darian Harris for helping to make this project possible.

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Check out the ACP's Obesity Management curriculum at https://www.acponline.org/clinical-information/clinical-resources-products/obesity-management-learning-hub

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