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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Hello colleagues! If you are a physician with expertise in obesity, I hope you will consider supporting my medical school research project by completing an online survey of obesity knowledge based on the 2020 Canadian Adult Obesity Clinical Practice Guidelines. My [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
As Obesity Canada (OC) continues to work to make the Canadian Adult Obesity Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) the standard of care in this country, efforts in Chile and Ireland to translate the CPGs are nearing completion. Teams from all three countries [...]
