ECHO-Chicago: Child & Adolescent Weight Management: Behavioral & Medical Approaches

February 6, 2026 to April 24, 2026
Empower Your Practice to Address Obesity with Confidence
 
Join this dynamic educational series designed to equip community-based primary care clinicians across Illinois with practical, evidence-based strategies to manage obesity in everyday practice. Through real-world guidance and actionable tools, you’ll gain confidence in making personalized weight management recommendations and navigating respectful, effective conversations about weight with your patients. Whether you’re looking to enhance clinical outcomes, strengthen patient engagement, or stay current with best practices, this series delivers immediately applicable insights you can use in the exam room the very next day.

Target Audience

This activity is designed for all primary care clinicians who see children and adolescent patients.

Learning Objectives

After this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Describe the epidemiology of child and adolescent overweight and obesity, including disparities related to socioeconomic and environmental factors.
  • Conduct guideline-based screening and assessment for overweight and obesity in children and adolescents in primary care.
  • Use motivational interviewing techniques to engage children and families in supportive, non-stigmatizing conversations about weight.
  • Implement evidence-based lifestyle counseling strategies addressing nutrition, mealtime environment, physical activity, and sleep.
  • Apply a stepped, evidence-based approach to treat pediatric obesity based on severity and patient needs.
  • Identify appropriate indications for pharmacotherapy, metabolic surgery, and referral to specialized obesity treatment programs.
  • Recognize common metabolic, cardiovascular, sleep-related, and endocrine complications associated with pediatric obesity in the primary care setting.
  • Integrate behavioral, nutritional, and medical strategies into a comprehensive pediatric weight management plan to implement at least one practice-level change.
Additional information
ACGME/ABMS Core Competencies: 
Patient Care and Procedural Skills
Medical Knowledge
Practice-based Learning and Improvement
Interpersonal and Communication Skills
Professionalism
Systems-based Practice
For more information, please contact:
CME Coordinator Contact Name: 
ECHO-Chicago
CME Coordinator Contact Email: 
[email protected]
CME Coordinator Contact Phone: 
773-702-2213

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Summary
Available credit: 
  • 12.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 12.00 Participation
Event starts: 
02/06/2026 - 8:00am
Event ends: 
04/24/2026 - 9:00am
Activity opens: 
01/04/2026
Activity expires: 
05/24/2026
Add to calendar: 
DateTopic
February 6Introduction to ECHO-Chicago and Epidemiology Child and Adolescent Obesity
February 13Screening and Assessment in Primary Care
February 20Stepped Approach to Treating Obesity: Counseling Approach and Motivational Interviewing
February 27Dietary Counseling & 5A’s
March 6Mealtime Environment and Family Approach
March 13Physical Activity, Sleep, and Behavioral Approaches
March 20Medication (GLP1), Surgery, Specialized Programs
March 27Psychosocial Issues
April 3Pre-Diabetes, Lipids, and Endocrine Complications
April 10Hypertension Diagnosis and Management
April 17Sleep Apnea and Secondary Causes of Obesity
April 24Review & Wrap-Up

The agenda is subject to change.

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ACCESSIBILITY The University of Chicago is committed to providing equal access appropriate to need and circumstances and complies fully with legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you are in need of special accommodation, please contact ECHO-Chicago via email.
 
The University of Chicago reserves the right to cancel or postpone this conference due to unforeseen circumstances. In the unlikely event this activity must be cancelled or postponed, the registration fee will be refunded; however, the University of Chicago is not responsible for any related costs, charges, or expenses to participants, including fees assessed by airline/travel/lodging agencies.
FACULTY
Jacqueline Bango, LCSW
Director of Behavioral Health
Bicycle Health
 
Deborah Burnet, MD, MAPP
Professor of Medicine & Pediatrics
Retired
University of Chicago
 
Marla Solomon, RD, CDCES
Registered Dietitian
Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Chicago
 
Disclosure Declarations
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires everyone who is in a position to control the content of an educational activity to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest. This includes any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by or used on patients. The ACCME defines “relevant financial relationships” as financial relationships in any amount occurring within the past 12 months, including financial relationships of a spouse or life partner that could create a conflict of interest. Mechanisms are in place to identify and resolve any potential conflict of interest before the start of the activity.

Additionally, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
Physician Credit
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Other Healthcare Professional Credit
Other healthcare professionals will receive a Certificate of Participation. For information on the applicability and acceptance of Certificates of Participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME, please consult your professional licensing board. 
 
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