Implementing Pharmacologic Weight Management in Primary Care
Purpose: Building the capacity of primary care clinicians and their team members to provide evidence-based comprehensive care of their eligible patients living with complicated overweight and obesity. This includes education about weight loss efficacy from lifestyle interventions and, when not sufficient, initiating anti-obesity medications, counseling for metabolic-bariatric surgery, referring to subspecialty care for co -management of complicated comorbid conditions, and education around reducing bias and stigma in overweight and obesity
Audience: Primary care clinicians, dieticians, nurses, pharmacists, behavioral health specialists, and other care team members
Sample topics: Anti-obesity medications; Diet and lifestyle recommendations; Patient conversations, including navigating stigma and bias; Metabolic bariatric surgery & endobariatrics
Schedule: 8 sessions. Wednesdays, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. PT, January 8 - February 26, 2025
Faculty:
Manida Wungjiranirun, MD; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, School of Medicine, OHSU
Jonathan Purnell, MD; Professor of Medicine, Knight Cardiovascular Institute Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Clinical Nutrition, School of Medicine, OHSU
Tracy Severson, RD, LD, CD, Dietician, Center for Preventive Oncology, OHSU Knight Cardiovascular Institute
Selvi Williams, MD, MPH; Clinician/Educator, Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, OHSU
