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Obesity Teaching Day

This activity is designed for Primary care physicians, specialty physicians, dietitians, and other health care professionals who care for patients with obesity.

Follow the Agenda, as it unfolds...


 

Obesity Teaching Day
Friday, March 18, 2016 | 7:30AM-4:00PM
The Grandview, 176 Rinaldi Blvd., Poughkeepsie, NY 12601

 

 

 

 

Program Schedule
This is a working agenda, it may change drastically between now and March 18, 2016.

7:30am – 8:00am –       REGISTRATION

8:00am – 8:05am –       Welcome & Opening Remarks
                                                   – Joseph Calabro, MD, Education Director

8:05am – 8:50am –       Pediatric Obesity
                                                   – Jill Brodsky, MD, FAAP

8:50am – 9:35am        Medical Treatment of Obesity in Adults
                                                   – Azeez Farooki, MD

9:35am – 10:20am      Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
                                                   – Simona Meca, MD

10:20am – 10:35am –   BREAK


10:35am – 11:20am    
Obesity & Cardiovascular Disease
                                                   – Mark Harrison, MD


11:20am – 12:05pm    Orthopedic Effects of Obesity  
                                                   – Mark Aierstok, MD


12:05pm – 1:00pm      LUNCH

1:00pm – 1:45pm        Pregnancy and Obesity
                                                   – Kimberly Heller, MD


1:45pm – 2:30pm        Adult & Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea 
                                                   – Steve Ritter, MD

2:30pm – 3:15pm      
  Bariatric Surgery: What Every Doc Should Know  
                                                   – Ashutosh Kaul, MD, MS, FRCS, FACS


3:15pm – 4:00pm        Nutrition & Obesity
                                                   – Virginia Cambalik, RD, 
CDN

 

Online Registration is now closed.  
Please register at the door on
Friday b
etween 7:30am-8:00am.

VBMC Nurses must also submit RTA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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