Phoenix Children's 10th Annual Childhood Obesity Symposium 2024
Join us for the 10th Annual Child Obesity Symposium!
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Date: Friday, May 17, 2024
Location: Phoenix Children's Mel Cohen Conference Center
1920 East Cambridge Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85006
8:30am: Registration
9:00am – 3:15pm: Symposium presentations and keynote address (lunch provided)
(CME Awaiting approval)
3:15 - 5:00pm: Social hour
The 10th Childhood Obesity Symposium presented by the CARE Program at Phoenix Children’s will be held May 17, 2024 at the Phoenix Children’s Mel Cohen Center.
The symposium offers physicians, researchers, and educators an opportunity to learn from experts in pediatric obesity and obesity-associated conditions. The goal is to bring stakeholders together and encourage collaboration, generate new ideas, and enhance their knowledge base to improve the health and lives of children and families affected by obesity and at high risk of developing chronic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and fatty liver to name a few.
Keynote address by Dr. Sarah Armstrong co-author of the 2023 American Academic of Pediatrics Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Obesity.
The presentations will focus on the following topics:
- Emerging pharmacotherapy for the treatment of obesity and T2DM in children
- The relationship between mental health and obesity
- Disparities in children and adolescents with obesity and T2DM
- Integrative medicine
- Fitness and exercise
This event is for healthcare professionals in:
- Pediatrics
- Gastroenterology
- Nephrology
- Psychology
- Diabetes Educators
- Endocrinology
- Pulmonary
- Cardiology
- Nutrition/Dietetics
- Research
Speakers:
- Dorothee Newbern, MD – Pediatric Endocrinologist and CARE Program Director at Phoenix Children’s
- Jesse Lyon, PA - Physicians Assistant at Phoenix Children’s Endocrinology Division
- Morgan Braxton, PhD - Post doctoral fellow at Arizona State University
- Sarah Armstrong, MD - Pediatrician and Division chief of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health at Duke University
- Gabe Q. Shaibi, PhD - Center Director for the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention & Professor
- Gabby King, RDN - CARF-accredited registered dietitian at Phoenix Children’s inpatient rehab
- Arash Sabati, MD - Pediatric Cardiologist and Medical Director of the Exercise Stress Lab at Phoenix Children’s
- Damon B. Dixon, MD - Pediatric Cardiologist at Phoenix Children’s
- Amy Shoptaugh, MD, FAAP - General pediatrician , MD - General Pediatrician at Phoenix Children’s
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General Admission: $30
Phoenix Children’s Employees: FREE
Residents/ Students: FREE
Contact: endonutrition@phoenixchildrens.com or 602-933-0677