ECHO-Chicago: Weight Management for Adults

April 10, 2026 to July 10, 2026
Transform Your Approach to Obesity Care
 
Obesity is one of the most urgent challenges in clinical practice, yet many clinicians don’t feel fully equipped to manage it as a chronic disease. This high-impact series is designed to change that.
 
Build practical, evidence-based skills you can use right away. Learn to assess obesity more effectively, engage patients with confidence and empathy, and create personalized treatment plans that reflect real-world complexity.
 
You’ll learn how to:
  • Identify key drivers of obesity, including social determinants of health
  • Conduct focused, meaningful clinical assessments
  • Use patient-centered, bias-aware communication to strengthen engagement
  • Implement individualized nutrition, lifestyle, and treatment strategies, including medications and surgery
  • Address behavioral and mental health factors that influence outcomes
Walk away ready to deliver more effective, patient-centered care and make a real difference for your patients.
 
Register now to strengthen your practice and improve outcomes in obesity care!

Target Audience

This activity is designed for all primary care clinicians who provide care for adults with obesity.

Learning Objectives

After this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Recognize the influence of social determinants of health, including food insecurity, on obesity risk and management.
  • Conduct comprehensive clinical assessments of obesity, including evaluation of severity, contributing factors, and related comorbidities.
  • Apply patient-centered communication strategies that reduce weight bias and support engagement in obesity care.
  • Develop individualized nutrition and lifestyle strategies appropriate for diverse and underserved patient populations.
  • Evaluate evidence-based treatment options for obesity, including pharmacologic and surgical interventions.
  • Assess behavioral and mental health factors associated with obesity, including ambivalence, binge eating, and depression.
Additional information
ACGME/ABMS Core Competencies: 
Patient Care and Procedural Skills
Medical Knowledge
Practice-based Learning and Improvement
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: 
  • 10.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 10.00 Participation
Event starts: 
04/10/2026 - 8:00am
Event ends: 
07/10/2026 - 9:00am
Activity opens: 
06/26/2026
Activity expires: 
08/10/2026
Add to calendar: 
DateTopic
April 10Intro to ECHO-Chicago & Weight Bias in Healthcare: Improving Communication and Creating a Supportive Practice Environment Silvana Pannain
April 17Comprehensive Assessment of Obesity: Evaluating Severity, Drivers, and Comorbidities Silvana Pannain
April 24When Food Is Uncertain: How Food Insecurity Fuels Chronic Disease Abigail Gerber
May 1Real-World Eating Patterns in Underserved Communities: Practical Nutrition Strategies for Clinicians Abigail Gerber
May 8Medical nutrition therapy vs. nutrition education: why individualization matters in underserved patient populations Abigail Gerber
May 15No session
May 22Anti-Obesity Medications: Disease-Modifying Effects and Clinical Outcomes Beyond Weight Loss Silvana Pannain
May 29Surgical Management of Obesity Vivek Prachand
June 5From resistance to readiness: addressing patient ambivalence in obesity care Andrea Busby
June 12When obesity and binge eating overlap: practical approaches to assessment and treatment Andrea Busby
June 19No session for Juneteenth
June 26Bidirectional link between obesity and depression Andrea Busby

The agenda is subject to change.

Online Webinar
Chicago, IL
United States
WANT TO KNOW MORE?
To learn more about the ECHO-Chicago curricula, visit our website.
 
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.
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO COURSE DIRECTOR
Silvana Pannain, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine

 
Disclosure Declarations
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone in a position to control the content of an education activity to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies. This includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if a financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company during the past 24 months, and the content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship. Mechanisms are in place to identify and mitigate any relevant financial relationships 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 (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Other Participant Credit
Other participants 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.
 
Please note: The credit-claiming process closes 1 month after the activity ends. Requests submitted more than 1 month after the event date may incur additional fees.
 
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