Harvard Diabetes and Obesity: Caring for the Whole Patient 2025

1. The Nature of Body Weight: What the Clinician Must Know – Lee Kaplan, MD

2. Cardiovascular Disease in Obesity and T2D – Jorge Plutzky, MD

3. The Spectrum of Kidney Disorders in Obesity & Diabetes – Sylvia Rosas, MD

4. Cancer and Metabolic Disease – Jeffrey A. Meyerhardt, MD

5. Ultra-Processed Foods: What are They and can They be Included as Part of a Healthy Diet? – Nancy Oliveira, MS, RD, LDN, CDCES

6. The Nutrition Prescription for People Living with Diabetes and Obesity – Janice MacLeod, MA, RD, CDCES, FADCES

7. Update on Vitamin D and Disease Prevention in Obesity – Anastasios Pittas, MD

8. When Should We Eat? The Importance of Meal Timing for Metabolic Control – Frank A. J. L. Scheer, MD

9. Why, When and How Should Obesity Medications be Prescribed? – Dong Wook Kim, MD

10. Exploration of Gut Hormone Drugs: Current Status and Pipeline – Vanita Aroda, MD

11. GLP-1 RA and GIP/GLP-1RAs for Metabolic Control & Risk Reduction – Lee-Shing Chang, MD

12. SGLT2is for Metabolic Control & Risk Reduction – Silvio Inzucchi, MD

13. Fatigue, Gastroparesis, Wrinkles, Oh My!: Practical Approach to Counseling Patients Before Starting GLP-1 RA and Related Drugs – Armen I. Yerevanian, MD

14. Incretin Therapies and the Pancreas: Evidence Review and Practical Points – Julia Mc Nabb-Baltar, MD, PhD

15. The Thyroid and Incretin Therapies: What We Do and Don’t Know – Erik Alexander, MD

16. Urination, Dehydration and Infection, Oh No!: Practical Approach to Counseling on SGLT2i Side Effect Profile – Kristen Fowler, MSN, FNP-BC, CDE

1. Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes – Caroline Apovian, MD

2. Effective Use of Cardiovascular Imaging to Evaluate CV Risk – Rhanderson Cardoso, MD

3. Evaluating Sleep, Obesity & Diabetes – Lawrence Epstein, MD

4. MASLD-Update on Screening and Treatment – Kathleen Viveiros, MD

5. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Obesity: Pearls and Pitfalls of Diagnosis and Management – Andrea Dunaif, MD

6. Get with the Guidelines: Addressing Healthcare Disparities – Nuha ElSayed, MD, MMSc

7. The Role of Racial Disparities in Outcomes: How to Address in the Clinic – Joshua Joseph, MD, MPH, FAHA

8. Depression in Obesity and Diabetes – Ashwini Nadkarni, MD

9. Weight Impact of Medications Commonly Prescribed in the Care of the Patient With Metabolic Disease – Louis Aronne, MD, FACP, DABOM

10. Recognizing Atypical Diabetes – Miriam Udler, MD, PhD

11. Lipodystrophy: How to Recognize in Your Practice – Lindsay Fourman, MD

12. “Double Diabetes”: Type 1 Diabetes with Overlap Features of Type 2 – Zeb Saeed, MD

13. Hypoglycemia – Devin Steenkamp, MD, MBChB

14. Wearable Devices to Achieve Clinical Targets: What Works? – John Jakicic, PhD

15. The Big Reveal: Use of Professional CGM in the Office to Identify Important Glycemic Patterns – Anna Goldman, MD

16. Self-Management with CGM: Selecting the Right Patient for Optimal Benefit – Grazia Aleppo, MD

17. The Ultimate Wearable: Exploring the Landscape of Automated Insulin Delivery – Melissa Putman, MD

1. The Continuum of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes: Revisiting Treatment Goals – Vanita Aroda, MD

2. Putting it Together: Selecting Therapy for People with Diabetes – Marie McDonnell, MD

3. Adherence to Therapy in Chronic Disease – Niteesh Choudhry, MD, PhD

4. Remote Engagement: Medication Adherence – Julie Lauffenburger, MD, PhD, PharmD

5. Engagement of Patients and Providers in Online Weight Management Programs – Heather J. Baer, ScD

6. Activating Behavior Change in Your Patient: Motivational Interviewing Workshop – Joji Suzuki, MD

7. Effects of Metabolic Surgeries on Obesity and Diabetes – Ali Tavakkoli, MD

8. The Current State of Non-Surgical Metabolic Procedures: The Future is Now – Christopher Thompson, MD, MSc, FAGA, GACG, GASGE, FJGS

9. Patient Selection and the Peri-op Process for Metabolic Surgery – Scott Shikora, MD, FACS, FASMBS

10. Postoperative Nutritional Management – Malcolm Robinson, MD

11. Glycemic Challenges After Metabolic Surgery – Mary Elizabeth Patti, MD

12. Addressing Post-Bariatric Weight Re-gain – Nawfal Istfan, MD, PhD