Day Welcome
Event Welcome
Welcome and Introduction
Plenary Session
Session 1: Obesity as a Disease, Diagnosis, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk
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Introduction to a patient living with obesity
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Defining the disease of obesity including accurate diagnosis and broad implications of the disease
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Obesity and mechanisms leading to cardiovascular disease
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An overview of cardiovascular risk reduction therapies current and emerging
Plenary Session
Session 2: Rapid Fire Sessions - Challenges of Treating Specific CV Disease in Patients With Obesity
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A review of key co morbidities found in patients living with obesity including diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, thrombosis, heart failure and atrial fibrillation
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The impact, challenges, strategies and emerging data will be discussed
Break
Break
Plenary Session
Session 3: Healthful Nutrition, Physical Activity, Behaviour Modification and MDT
How to speak with a patient living with obesity
Healthcare biases and the impact on patients
Latest on healthful nutrition, behaviour modification and additional therapy approaches
How to practically implement and utilise tools for non-drug therapies
How to utilise and work with a multidisciplinary team
Plenary Session
Session 4: Medical and Procedural Options and the Referral Pathways
Utilisation of medical therapy for patients living with obesity – practical considerations
Review of clinical outcome evidence and when to refer patients for surgery
Current gaps and future therapies
Practical management with the multidisciplinary team
Day Summary
Event Close
Closing Remarks
Harold Bays
Course Director
Louisville Metabolic and Atherosclerosis Research Center, Louisville, US
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Naveed Sattar
Course Director
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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Lydia Alexander
Enara Health, California, US
Vanita Aroda
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, US
Harold Bays
Louisville Metabolic and Atherosclerosis Research Center, Louisville, US
Ozden Gokdemir
Izmir University of Economics, Faculty of Medicine, Izmir, TR
Mikhail Kosiborod
Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas City, US
Linda Mellbin
Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, SE
Erin Michos
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, US
Alexander Miras
Ulster University, Belfast, UK
Neha Pagidipati
Duke University School of Medicine, North Carolina, US
Francesco Rubino
King's College London, London, UK
Naveed Sattar
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Liesbeth van Rossum
Erasmus University, Rotterdam, NL
