Submit your Abstract or Workshop Today! Deadline: October 3, 2022
We invite you to submit your abstract and workshops for the 2023 Conference which will be held from May 14-17, 2023 in Whistler, British Columbia at the Fairmont Chateau Whistler. Workshop, oral and poster abstract opportunities. Don’t miss out on your [...]
Obesity Canada Launches Calibre: Accredited Online Obesity CME
Learn-as-you-go modules and live online sessions designed to help clinicians implement Canadian adult obesity clinical guidelines into practice Obesity Canada (OC), the Canadian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism (CSEM) and the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO) have launched [...]
Call for PhD students, residents and postdoctoral fellows for the winter camp of CMDO network
Today's blog post is brought to you by Lucien Junior Bergeron, Chief Operating Officer of the Quebec Cardiometabolic Health, Diabetes and Obesity Network – www.rrcmdo.ca/en. Created in April 2012 by the Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Santé (FRQS), the mission [...]
Assessing the Realistic Risk of Treatment in People with Higher BMI, and more
Obesity Canada is hard at work this summer continuing our mission of improving the lives of Canadians living with obesity through research, education and advocacy. Much of our efforts focus around our Clinical Practice Guidelines and the work needed to now [...]
Not Until you Lose Weight! Experiences of weight bias and being denied treatment based on BMI
Living with obesity comes with many challenges, from the impact on health to social or environmental limitations. These challenges are hard enough on their own without being made unnecessarily worse from the people and systems that are supposed to help, however [...]
Where are Canadians accessing obesity care?
Today’s post is written by Neha Saroya, A research coordinator student assisting Obesity Canada’s Community Action Team. Obesity is a complex, progressive, relapsing chronic disease where excess or abnormal adipose tissue impairs health. However, most Canadians living with obesity can [...]
Since when did a number on the scale determine my success?
Today's blog is written by patient advocate Adrianna McDonald. As someone living with obesity, I have experienced my fair share of weight bias and discrimination. Healthcare seems to be an environment where this treatment happens a lot, and is something I [...]
Closed: Study participants needed: Investigating perspectives of maternal healthcare providers caring for patients who have obesity
You are invited to participate in this study as you are currently a practicing or in training Canadian maternal healthcare provider. The primary purpose of this study is to learn about the attitudes and opinions that practicing and in-training maternal [...]
Published: Pediatric Obesity
Summary Objective To assess stakeholder ratings of health indicators and subgroup analyses in systematic reviews used to update the Canadian Clinical Practice Guideline for Managing Paediatric Obesity. Methods Stakeholders (caregivers of children with obesity and Clinical Practice Guideline Steering Committee members) completed [...]