EndocrinologyCourse recording2025
Harvard Diabetes and Obesity 2025 — treating both conditions together, from nutrition to metabolic surgery
Directed by Marie McDonnell, Vanita Aroda and Caroline Apovian, Harvard Diabetes and Obesity: Caring for the Whole Patient 2025 (26–28 February 2025) argues that type 2 diabetes and obesity must be managed as one problem. Three days of short talks and case panels cover cardiovascular, kidney and cancer links, nutrition and meal timing, GLP-1, dual agonist and SGLT2 therapy and their side effects, atypical diabetes and hypoglycaemia, CGM and automated insulin delivery, adherence, motivational interviewing, and metabolic surgery with its long-term complications. Supplied as videos with PDF slides.
- 56talks and panels
- 3days
- PDFslides
- Feb 2025recorded
What you’ll be able to do
- Prescribe obesity and incretin medications with confidence
- Counsel patients on GI, pancreatic and thyroid side effects
- Use professional and personal CGM to guide therapy
- Select patients for metabolic surgery and manage the aftermath
- Support behaviour change with motivational interviewing
Inside the course
Twenty-minute talks, then a panel
Each themed block closes with experts working through submitted cases and questions.
A hands-on workshop
Day three includes an hour-long motivational interviewing workshop for everyday consultations.
Built for
- Primary care physicians, NPs and PAsManaging metabolic disease day to day.
- Endocrinologists, cardiologists, nephrologists and dietitiansA team-based update.
Programme
Wednesday 20 talks
- Lee Kaplan — Keynote: The Nature of Body Weight: What the Clinician Must Know
- Jorge Plutzky — Cardiovascular Disease in Obesity and T2D
- Sylvia Rosas — The Spectrum of Kidney Disorders in Obesity & Diabetes
- Jeffrey A. Meyerhardt — Cancer and Metabolic Disease
- Marie McDonnell; Caroline Apovian; Vanita Aroda; Sylvia Rosas; Jeffrey A. Meyerhardt; Lee Kaplan; Jorge Plutzky — Expert Panel: Diabetes, the Obesity and Major Comorbidities: How to Bring Knowledge to the Bedside
- Nancy Oliveira — Ultra-Processed Foods: What are They and can They be Included as Part of a Healthy Diet?
- Janice MacLeod — The Nutrition Prescription for People Living with Diabetes and Obesity
- Anastasios Pittas — Update on Vitamin D and Disease Prevention in Obesity
- Frank A. J. L. Scheer — When Should We Eat? The Importance of Meal Timing for Metabolic Control
- Panelists: Nancy Oliveira; Janice Macleod; Meghan Ariagno — Case Presentation & Expert Panel
- Dong Wook Kim — Why, When and How Should Obesity Medications be Prescribed?
- Vanita Aroda — Exploration of Gut Hormone Drugs: Current Status and Pipeline
- Lee-Shing Chang — GLP-1 RA and GIP/GLP-1RAs for Metabolic Control & Risk Reduction
- Silvio Inzucchi — SGLT2is for Metabolic Control & Risk Reduction
- Dong Wook Kim; Vanita Aroda; Lee-Shing Chang; Silvio Inzucchi — Expert Panel: Your Cases Discussed and Questions Answered
- Armen I. Yerevanian — Fatigue, Gastroparesis, Wrinkles, Oh My!: Practical Approach to Counseling Patients Before Starting GLP-1 RA and Related Drugs
- Julia Mc Nabb-Baltar — Incretin Therapies and the Pancreas: Evidence Review and Practical Points
- Erik Alexander — The Thyroid and Incretin Therapies: What We Do and Don’t Know
- Kristen Fowler — Urination, Dehydration and Infection, Oh No!: Practical Approach to Counseling on SGLT2i Side Effect Profile
- Armen I. Yerevanian; Julia Mc Nabb-Baltar; Erik Alexander; Kristen Fowler — Expert Panel: Your Cases Discussed and Questions Answered
Thursday 21 talks
- Caroline Apovian — Keynote: Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes
- Rhanderson Cardoso — Effective Use of Cardiovascular Imaging to Evaluate CV Risk
- Lawrence Epstein — Evaluating Sleep, Obesity & Diabetes
- Kathleen Viveiros — MASLD-Update on Screening and Treatment
- Andrea Dunaif — Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Obesity -Pearls and Pitfalls of Diagnosis and Management
- Caroline Apovian; Rhanderson Cardoso; Lawrence Epstein. MD; Kathleen Viveiros; Andrea Dunaif — Expert Panel: Your Cases Discussed & Questions Answered: Comprehensive Multi-Morbidity Evaluation
- Nuha ElSayed, MMSc — Get with the Guidelines: Addressing Healthcare Disparities
- Joshua Joseph — The Role of Racial Disparities in Outcomes: How to Address in the Clinic
- Ashwini Nadkarni — Depression in Obesity and Diabetes
- Louis Aronne — Weight Impact of Medications Commonly Prescribed in the Care of the Patient With Metabolic Disease
- Nuha ElSayed, MMSc; Joshua Joseph; Ashwini Nadkarni; Louis Aronne — Expert Panel: Your Cases Discussed & Questions Answered: Caring for the Whole Patient: Expanded Perspectives
- Miriam Udler — Recognizing Atypical Diabetes
- Lindsay Fourman — Lipodystrophy: How to Recognize in Your Practice
- Zeb Saeed — “Double Diabetes”: Type 1 Diabetes with Overlap Features of Type 2
- Devin Steenkamp — Hypoglycemia
- Miriam Udler; Lindsay Fourman; Devin Steenkamp — Expert Panel: Your Cases Discussed & Questions Answered: Recognizing and Assessing Unique Presentations
- John Jakicic — Wearable Devices to Achieve Clinical Targets: What Works?
- Anna Goldman — The Big Reveal: Use of Professional CGM in the Office to Identify Important Glycemic Patterns
- Grazia Aleppo — Self-Management with CGM: Selecting the Right Patient for Optimal Benefit
- Melissa Putman — The Ultimate Wearable: Exploring the Landscape of Automated Insulin Delivery
- Anna Goldman; Grazia Aleppo; John Jakicic; Melissa Putman — Expert Panel: Your Cases Discussed & Questions Answered: Technology- Enhanced Person- Centered Care
Friday 15 talks
- Vanita Aroda — Keynote: The Continuum of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes: Revisiting Treatment Goals
- Marie McDonnell — Putting it Together: Selecting Therapy for People with Diabetes
- Niteesh Choudhry — Adherence to Therapy in Chronic Disease
- Julie Lauffenburger — Remote Engagement: Medication Adherence
- Heather J. Baer — Engagement of Patients and Providers in Online Weight Management Programs
- Vanita Aroda; Marie McDonnell; Niteesh Choudhry, Julie Lauffenburger; Heather J. Baer — Expert Panel: Your Cases Discussed & Questions Answered: Prescribing for Success
- Joji Suzuki — Activating Behavior Change in Your Patient: Motivational Interviewing Workshop
- Ali Tavakkoli — Effects of Metabolic Surgeries on Obesity and Diabetes
- Christopher Thompson — The Current State of Non-Surgical Metabolic Procedures: The Future is Now
- Scott Shikora — Patient Selection and the Peri-op Process for Metabolic Surgery
- Ali Tavakkoli; Scott Shikora; Christopher Thompson — Expert Panel: Your Cases Discussed & Questions Answered: Procedural Approaches to Metabolic Conditions
- Malcolm Robinson — Postoperative Nutritional Management
- Mary Elizabeth Patti — Glycemic Challenges After Metabolic Surgery
- Nawfal Istfan — Addressing Post-Bariatric Weight Re-gain
- Malcolm Robinson; Mary Elizabeth Patti; Nawfal Istfan — Expert Panel: Your Cases Discussed & Questions Answered: Long Term Management Challenges Following Bariatric Surgery
Before you buy
Do I get CME credit or a certificate?
No. Clinicapedia provides the educational content only — no CME or CE credits, MOC points or certificates of completion are included with this product.
Specifications
| Format | Videos + PDF slides |
|---|---|
| Recorded | 26–28 February 2025 |
| Publisher | Harvard Medical School |
| Department | Endocrinology & Nutrition |
| Delivery | Instant download · lifetime re-download |


