ECHO-Chicago: Childhood Obesity and Comorbidities-Spring 2021
Target Audience
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Identify risk factors to determine which children should be screened and treated for common comorbidities of obesity, including hyperlipidemia, hypertension, and impaired glucose metabolism;
- Describe common psychosocial problems associated with childhood obesity and methods of treatment;
- Determine approaches to counseling patients and families on lifestyle and behavioral changes that can combat obesity and are feasible within the primary care setting;
- Identify secondary causes of obesity and potential pharmacological treatments;
- Recognize individual and family, social, economic, and environmental barriers to change.
- 12.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 12.00 Participation
Agenda subject to change.
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 e-mail via at echo@peds.bsd.uchicago.edu.
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.
COURSE FACULTY
Division Chief, Family Medicine, UH Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital
Chair, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, UH Cleveland Medical Center
Clinician Experience Officer, UH Cleveland Medical Center
Clinical Professor, CWRU School of Medicine
Director, ECHO-Chicago
Professor of Pediatrics
Chief, Section of Academic Pediatrics
Chief, Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Vice Chair, Clinical Services
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 education 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 prior to 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 US Food and Drug Administration at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
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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Please Note: The credit claiming process will close three months after the conference end date. Requests to claim credit after three months will be subject to additional fees.