TOS/TOPS Joint Symposium: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) and Obesity-Related Diseases - How Trauma in Childhood Leads to Future Weight Gain and Chronic Disease Risk
When: Friday, 11/5/2021, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Credits: 1.5 CME_Physicians Credits
Credits: 1.5 CME_OtherProfessions Credits
Description:
Stress from Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) - traumatic experiences or events that occur during childhood - can negatively impact development and growth. Long term, ACES are linked to chronic health problems, such as overweight/obesity and heart disease in adulthood. Come learn about ACES and health consequences from a lived perspective, as well as how ACES impact body weight across the life course and are linked to disordered eating.

This session was jointly produced by The Obesity Society (TOS) and TOPS Club, Inc. (Take Off Pounds Sensibly).

Delivery Mechanism: Broadcast
Keyword: Behavioral Psychology: Eating Behaviors; Behavioral Psychology: Psychosocial-Other; Environment: Family
Track: Sub-track: Diversity & Health Inequities; Sub-track: Pediatrics; Track 4: Population Health

Speakers:
Candice A. Myers, PhDSession Chair
Terri LavigneA Lived Experience of Trauma on Weight: Patient Perspective10:30 am - 10:50 am
Susan M. Mason, PhD, MPHACEs and Body Weight in Adolescence through Adulthood10:50 am - 11:10 am
Jessica L. Lawson, PhDACEs and Disordered Eating11:10 am - 11:30 am
Candice A. Myers, PhDModerate Panel Q&A11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Terri LavignePanel Q&A11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Susan M. Mason, PhD, MPHPanel Q&A11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Jessica L. Lawson, PhDPanel Q&A11:30 am - 12:00 pm

Learning Objectives:
1. Apply the latest recommendations for evaluation and treatment; tailor intervention strategies based on patient characteristics such as age or metabolic or behavioral phenotype; understand the differences between weight loss and weight loss maintenance.
2. Understand the evidence-based science regarding neuroendocrine, environmental, endocrine, microbiota and/or cognitive behavioral mechanisms regulating energy balance and body weight. Apply that knowledge to develop and implement treatment options for adults and pediatric patients with overweight, obesity or obesity-related co-morbidities.
3. Implement appropriate strategies for diagnosing adolescent and pediatric obesity, evaluate current treatment options and emerging therapeutics and provide care and treatment to adolescent and pediatric patients accordingly. Teach evidence-based strategies for obesity prevention in the pediatric and adolescent population.
4. Apply lessons learned about the impact of: nutrition and obesity initiatives to reduce health disparities, and federal nutrition and obesity policies on health disparities.
5. Apply new knowledge related to dietary intervention and physical activity from the perspectives of Metabolism and Integrative Physiology, Neuroscience, Intervention and Clinical Studies, Population Health, Clinical/Professional Practice, and Policy/Public Health.