25 episodes

Obesity: A Disease is the official Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) FREE podcast exploring the many facets of the disease of obesity. Episodes provide valuable insights into this growing problem and better equip clinicians to understand and engage in treating this disease.

Obesity: A Disease Obesity Medicine

    • Health & Fitness

Obesity: A Disease is the official Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) FREE podcast exploring the many facets of the disease of obesity. Episodes provide valuable insights into this growing problem and better equip clinicians to understand and engage in treating this disease.

    Episode 92: Clinical Conversations: Obesity & Health Disparities - It's a Family Affair

    Episode 92: Clinical Conversations: Obesity & Health Disparities - It's a Family Affair

    In this Episode, Obesity Medicine Specialist and OMA Clinical Education Director Dr. Nicholas Pennings interviews, Dr. Kathi Earles, a highlighted speaker from the Overcoming Obesity 2023 Conference, Obesity & Health Disparities: It's A Family Affair. In this episode they will discuss institutional framework resulting in health disparities, review the impact of social determinants of health on family-centered obesity treatment for the pediatric and adult population, identify innovative strategies to apply a family-centered treatment model for patients.

    • 26 min
    Episode 91: Article Reviews: Obesity and Thrombosis

    Episode 91: Article Reviews: Obesity and Thrombosis

    In this episode Co-Authors, Dr. Harold Bays and Dr. Angela Fitch, review the article Obesity, thrombosis, venous disease, lymphatic disease and lipedema: An Obesity Medicine Association Clinical Practice Statement 2023.

    • 20 min
    Episode 90: Clinical Conversations: Early Intervention in Weight Management: Treating Pre-Obesity

    Episode 90: Clinical Conversations: Early Intervention in Weight Management: Treating Pre-Obesity

    In this Episode, Obesity Medicine Specialist and OMA Clinical Education Director Dr. Nicholas Pennings interviews, Dr. Michelle Look, a highlighted speaker from the Obesity Medicine 2023 Conference, Early Intervention in Weight Management: Treating Pre-Obesity. Topics covered will include identifying the risks associated with pre-obesity, best practices for screening and taking a weight history, and reviewing practical treatment strategies to halt the progression of the disease.
    Episode Guests
    Michelle Look, MD, FAAFP
    Related Resources
    https://academy.obesitymedicine.org/content/overcoming-obesity-2023-early-intervention-weight-management-treating-pre-obesity-recorded#group-tabs-node-course-default1 

    • 22 min
    Episode 89: Article Reviews: Prior Authorizations for Anti-Obesity Medications

    Episode 89: Article Reviews: Prior Authorizations for Anti-Obesity Medications

    In this episode, Dr. Harold Bays and Dr. Carolynn Francavilla discuss their experience with prior authorizations for obesity medications including the highly effective GLP-1 medications. 

    • 16 min
    Episode 88: Clinical Conversations: Do Sleepy Brains Make Poor Food & Other Lifestyle Choices? Impact of Sleep on Weight Management

    Episode 88: Clinical Conversations: Do Sleepy Brains Make Poor Food & Other Lifestyle Choices? Impact of Sleep on Weight Management

    In this Episode, Obesity Medicine Specialist and OMA Clinical Education Director Dr. Nicholas Pennings interviews, Dr. Marie-Pierre St Onge, a highlighted speaker from the Obesity Medicine 2023 Conference, Do Sleepy Brains Make Poor Food & Other Lifestyle Choices? Topics covered include the connection between sleep status and obesity, sleep deprivation and it's impacts on energy balance and physical activity and the benefits of improving sleep habits.
    Episode Guests
    Marie-Pierre St-Onge, PhD
    Related Resources
    https://academy.obesitymedicine.org/content/oma-2023-spring-summit-do-sleepy-brains-make-poor-food-other-lifestyle-choices-impact-sleep
    Related Resources
    Obesity Algorithm©

    • 34 min
    Episode 87: Article Review: Obesity, Diabetes Mellitus, and Cardiometabolic Risk with Dr. Bindlish, Part 2 of 3

    Episode 87: Article Review: Obesity, Diabetes Mellitus, and Cardiometabolic Risk with Dr. Bindlish, Part 2 of 3

    In this episode, Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) Chief Science Officer, Harold Bays, MD, FOMA, FTOS, FACC, FNLA, FASPC interviews Shagun Bindlish, MD. Our experts discuss a series of clinical practice statements recently published in ‘Obesity Pillars’, for which Dr. Bindlish was a co- author. Obesity Pillars is the official Gold Open Access journal of the Obesity Medicine Association, available exclusively online.



    In our article review podcasts, we carefully select articles from the latest version of Obesity Pillars, which is devoted to the publication of clinical and evidence-based research for physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and other health care clinicians in the field of obesity medicine. Obesity Pillars can be found at https://www.journals.elsevier.com/obesity-pillars. We then discuss this new science with obesity experts. To access other resources from the clinical leader in Obesity Medicine, please visit: www.obesitymedicine.org.



    In this three part series, Dr. Bays and Dr. Bindlish review the article: Obesity, diabetes mellitus, and cardiometabolic risk: An Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) Clinical Practice Statement (CPS) 2023. Topics in this episode include the proper prescribing of medications for the treatment of obesity and diabetes including GLP1agonists and SGLT2 inhibitors.



    Episode Guests



    Dr. Shagun Bindlish, MD
    Dr. Harold Bays, MD, FOMA, FTOS, FACC, FNLA, FASPC



    Related Resources



    Obesity Pillars®

    • 18 min

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