This position has been filled. Administrative Assistant Job Type: Full time, 6 months with a possible extension depending on funding Hours: 35 hours per week, Monday through Friday Location: Online / Remote Obesity Canada is Canada’s leading obesity registered charity, made [...]
Summary Objective: A systematic review of value and preference studies conducted in children and their caregivers related to the estimated benefits and harms of interventions for managing paediatric obesity. Methods: We searched Ovid Medline (1946–2022), Ovid Embase (1974–2022), EBSCO CINAHL (inception to [...]
Join us at this world-class event that incorporates separate concurrent annual conferences (congresses/meetings) from the 7 host organizations under 1 roof:- Canadian Cardiovascular Congress- Diabetes Canada / Canadian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism Conference- Thrombosis Canada Conference- Canadian Venous Thromboembolism Research Network [...]
Read the full CBC article, HERE. New Canadian guidelines on the way In Canada, where about one in 10 children has obesity, treatment guidelines are also in the process of being updated. A team of more than 50 experts across the [...]
Obesity Canada is pleased to announce the launch of the Canadian Obesity Fellowship Program where we will be working toward supporting financial support to Canadian researchers to advance new and current obesity research. Alongside the launch of the program, we are [...]
What Does Effective Obesity Management Look Like? Learn about the evidence-based pillars of obesity management and What a long-term comprehensive approach to obesity management might look like. Obesity Is Not A Behaviour: Patient experiences in comprehensive obesity management Bariatric Surgery: Long-term [...]
Today's blog post is brought to you by Dawn Hatanaka, Executive Director of Obesity Canada. There has been quite a bit of media attention around the recently released Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With [...]
Obesity Canada's online professional community OC Connect Pro, hosted by TimedRight has closed. Obesity Digest is not being managed by Obesity Canada. Thank you for your support of this online community by engaging via posting, liking and sharing the content. We have [...]
The Advancing Obesity Management Program has expired. This 10 module program has been taken offline and will not return online in it's same format. You will not have access to the course once it has been taken offline. If you were not able [...]
A big congratulations to all of those who successfully completed the Certified Bariatric Educator examination on November 26, 2022 and now hold the CBE designation! The Certified Bariatric Educator designation signifies advanced knowledge and principles of obesity management in alignment with [...]
