Education for Obesity Medicine Fellows
Monthly Fellows' Obesity Medicine Didactics- Journal Club & Cases:
- Noon ET on 2nd Fridays
- 5:30pm ET on 2nd Wednesdays
Date |
First Presenters (Journal Club: 30 min) |
Second Presenter (Case: 20 min) |
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| Fri. 9/11/2026 at 12pm ET | New Fellows Meet & Greet + Q&A session with former fellows | ||||||
| Fri. 10/9/2026 at 12pm ET | Shivani Reddy (MGB) Jeffrey Dixon (Hartford HealthCare) |
Priyanka Jethwani (Cleveland Clinic) | |||||
| Wed. 10/14/2026 at 5:30pm ET | |||||||
| Wed. 12/9/2026 @ 5:30pm ET | Nihit Mehta (Vanderbilt) | ||||||
| Fri. 12/11/2026 at 12pm ET | |||||||
| Fri. 1/08/2027 at 12pm ET | Brooke Yang (WVU) | ||||||
| Wed. 1/13/2027 @ 5:30pm ET | |||||||
| Wed. 2/10/2027 @ 5:30pm ET | Anna Coppinger (Wake Forest) | ||||||
| Fri. 2/12/27 at 12pm ET |
Dawn Addai (UMass) | ||||||
| Wed. 3/10/27 at 5:30pm ET | |||||||
| Fri. 3/12/27 at 12pm ET |
Ruiyi Gao (BWH) | ||||||
| Fri. 4/9/27 at 12pm ET |
Rebecca List (Univ. Florida- Peds) | ||||||
| Wed. 4/14/27 at 5:30pm ET | |||||||
| Wed. 5/12/27 at 5:30pm ET | |||||||
| Fri. 5/14/27 at 12pm ET | Akshata Sanga (Colorado) | Haya Salahia (UAB) | |||||
| Wed. 6/9/2027 @ 5:30pm ET | |||||||
| Fri. 6/11/27 at 12pm ET | |||||||
Past Lectures
| Date | First Presenters | Second Presenter | |||||
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Wed. 9/10/2025 @ 5:30pm ET RECORDING |
Aditi Rao (Weill Cornell) Michael Bonafede (Weill Cornell) An Introductory Review of Amylin and REDEFINE 1 data for Cagri Sema. |
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| Fri. 9/12/2025 at 12pm ET | New Fellows Meet & Greet + Q&A session with former fellows | ||||||
| Wed. 10/8/2025 at 5:30pm ET | Cancelled | ||||||
Fri. 10/10/2025 at 12pm ET RECORDING |
Rees Checketts (Utah) Stephanie Farah (West Virginia) Article: Effect of Resistance Training on Older Adults with Sarcopenic Obesity |
Danna Kashlan (Johns Hopkins) Case: Worsening Depression on Semaglutide |
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Wed. 12/10/2025 @ 5:30pm ET RECORDING |
Nawfal Istfan, MD, PhD: Thermodynamic analysis of human bioenergetics in obesity | ||||||
Fri. 12/12/2025 at 12pm ET RECORDING |
Thiago Bosco Mendes (UPMC) Alyssa Reitsma (MetroHealth) Article: Macrovascular and microvascular outcomes of metabolic surgery versus GLP-1 receptor agonists in patients with diabetes and obesity |
Alanna Meadows (Univ. Texas-Houston) Case: Hypothalamic Obesity |
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Wed. 1/14/26 at 5:30pm ET RECORDING |
Carolynn Francavilla Brown, MD: The Business of Obesity Medicine | ||||||
Fri. 1/09/26 at 12pm ET RECORDING |
Silpa Nadella (Minnesota) Rabab Elsadek (Florida) Article: Impact of Semaglutide on fat mass, lean mass and muscle function in patients with obesity: The SEMALEAN study |
Matthew Judge (Atrium Health) Case: Semaglutide and CVA |
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Wed. 2/11/26 at 5:30pm ET RECORDING |
Thiago Bosco Mendes (UPMC) Waist-to-height ratio and coronary artery calcium incidence: the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) - The Lancet Regional Health - Americas |
David Glass (Northwell Health) Case: Identifying Bariatric Surgery Complications in a Psychiatric Patient |
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Fri. 2/13/26 at 12pm ET RECORDING |
Rajiev Hallock (Cleveland Clinic) Tuyen N. Tran (Univ. Florida) Article: Phase 3 Trial of Semaglutide in Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatohepatits |
Maritza Jerome (UMass) Case: Partial Lipodystrophy |
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Wed. 3/11/26 at 5:30pm ET RECORDING |
Robert Dubin (LSU/Pennington) Body Composition |
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Fri. 3/13/26 at 12pm ET RECORDING |
Omosefe Ogbeifun (UAB) Case: Weight Regain After Bariatric Surgery |
Omosefe Ogbeifun (UAB) Case: Weight Regain After Bariatric Surgery |
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Wed. 4/8/26 at 5:00pm ET RECORDING |
Nova Szoke (West Virginia Univ.) BUSTIN' BARIATRIC MYTHS! Debunking common misconceptions about obesity & metabolic surgery |
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Fri 4/10/26 at 12pm ET RECORDING |
Aloukika Shah (UCSF) The Role of Menopausal Hormone Therapy in Modulating Tirzepatide-Associated Weight Loss in Postmenopausal Women with Overweight or Obesity: A Retrospective Cohort Study |
Katie Salim (BWH) Case: Inpatient protein sparing modified fast (PSMF) as a bridge to metabolic surgery in a patient with acute hypercapnic respiratory failure. |
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Fri. 5/8/26 at 12pm ET RECORDING |
Tierra Sanders (LSU/Pennington) Annelisa Pessetto (Boston) Relation of Ectopic Fat with Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Risk Score in South Asians Living in the United States (from the Mediators of Atherosclerosis in South Asians Living in America AND Adipokines and Cardiometabolic Risk in South Asian Americans: Findings from the MASALA Study |
Alina Chevtsov (Colorado) Case: Hypothalamic obesity due to langerhans cell histiocytosis |
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| Wed. 5/13/26 at 5:30pm ET | Cancelled | ||||||
| Wed. 6/10 at 5:30pm ET RECORDING | Vinaya Gogineni (Vanderbilt) Rachel Massa (Vanderbilt) |
Jayapriya Krishnaswamy (Hartford Healthcare) | |||||
| Fri. 6/12/26 at 12pm ET RECORDING | Sara Hrivnak (Wake Forest) | Linda Aljunaid (University of Toronto Sinai Health) | |||||
Remote Education
Obesity Medicine Association
Obesity Medicine Association | OMA Academy | https://academy.obesitymedicine.org/
The Obesity Society
The Obesity Society | ObesityWeek On Demand | https://obesityweek.ondemand.org/about-ondemand-features/
Grand Rounds: https://www.obesity.org/meetings-education/grandrounds/
Tri-State Obesity Society
Upcoming ROOTs (Review of Obesity Topics) Events: https://www.tristateobesitysociety.org/events
Past Events: https://www.tristateobesitysociety.org/pastevents
Cleveland Clinic- Obesity LIVE
View past lectures and join the monthly broadcast: http://2207941.mediaspace.kaltura.com/channel/Obesity+Live+2022/242762982
ABOM Exam Preparation
Click here for ABOM's Exam Study Resources. Fellows receive a discount for the ABOM application.