What you'll learn

  • Apply effective patient counseling and behavior modification techniques as well as support for productive lifestyle change

  • Determine the mechanism of action and most effective use of current and emerging pharmacological and medical device-based treatments of obesity

  • Assess patients for their need and appropriateness for bariatric surgery, help guide them to appropriate surgical options, and effectively manage their post-operative care

  • Incorporate strategies for the prevention and treatment of obesity in pediatric populations

  • Apply a greater understanding of the pathophysiology of obesity and its metabolic consequences to improve the care of patients with these disorders

  • Address patients with obesity with a greater sensitivity and understanding of the causes, challenges, frustrations, and opportunities for their effective treatment

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Course description

Education to Optimize Your Care of Adult, Adolescent, and Pediatric Patients with Obesity

Treating Obesity 2026: The Blackburn Course in Obesity Medicine is an online course, using live streaming, electronic Q&A, and other remote learning technologies.

This course delivers practical strategies to optimize the management of obesity and its many complications, and provides the most up-to-date approaches to obesity prevention and treatment.

Highlights of the 2026 program include:

  • Update on using the newer GLP-1 based therapies
  • Comprehensive evaluation of the patient with obesity
  • Precision medicine and dietary approaches to obesity and metabolic disorders
  • Medical, endoscopic, and surgical options for the treatment of obesity
  • Effective counseling and motivation techniques
  • Medical and surgical treatment of children and adolescents with obesity
  • Emerging strategies and therapies for genetic obesity
  • A guide to virtual care, group visits, private and academic practice models
  • Enhancing communication about obesity with patients, referring providers, payers, and the public
  • Addressing obesity bias, stigma, and disparities in care

Presented by experts in medicine, surgery, pediatrics, nutrition, endocrinology, gastroenterology, and psychology from the country’s leading obesity treatment centers, this course covers critical topics in the prevention and treatment of obesity and related disorders. It gives clinicians the knowledge to:

  • Identify, evaluate and manage patients with high-risk obesity
  • Provide lifestyle-based therapies for obesity, including nutritional, physical activity, and behavioral approaches
  • Apply effective counseling and behavioral modification techniques
  • Apply current pharmacological approaches to the treatment of obesity
  • Assess patients for their need and appropriateness for bariatric surgery and determine surgical option

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