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Name: Brenner FIT Academy: For Professionals
Start: 2023-09-28T12:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-06-30T21:00:00.000Z
Location: Webinar

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Northwest AHEC

Course Number: 71603

Brenner FIT Academy: For Professionals

Sep 28, 2023 08:00 AM EDT - Jun 30, 2025 05:00 PM EDT

Online Self-Paced Learning

Webinar
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Samantha Garvens

sagarvens@wakehealth.edu

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Event Description: Treating and preventing pediatric obesity is not about cutting calories and increasing exercise. In this 5-part series, developed by the pediatric weight management experts at Brenner FIT®, participants will learn new, effective skills to help their patients and families makes positive health changes in a safe, kind and family-centered way.

Objectives

Discuss the research regarding treatment approaches to childhood obesity and describe effective intervention strategies for use with children.

Recognize weight bias and acquire skills for talking supportively with families about weight and health.

Recommend skills and tools that will help parents to lead their family in making successful health habit changes with feeding and activity.

Identify different forms of pressure around feeding and activity, and employ strategies to remove pressure from parents and children so that they can enjoy eating and moving together.

Demonstrate to families how to play and have fun together to enhance health and wellness.

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Audience

• Physicians/Physician Assistants • Nurses/Nurse Practitioners • Registered Dietitians • Social Workers/Behavioral Health Providers • Health Educators • Certified Medical Assistants/Certified Nursing Assistants

Speakers

Gail M Cohen, MD, MS

Dara Garner-Edwards, MSW, LCSW

Melissa J Moses, MS, RD

Joseph A Skelton, MD

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