Overview

Mayra Baca, PNP, Amy Bartoshesky, FNP-BC, Suzanne Paul, FNP-C, and  Claudia Wies, FNP-C, will present on caring for the child with obesity at Children's Hospital Colorado.  

Faculty

Mayra Baca, PNP
Type 2 Diabetes Educator 
Lifestyle Medicine I and II
Children's Hospital of Colorado 
Bilingual Spanish Medical Provider 

Amy Bartoshesky, FNP-BC
Nurse Practitioner
Lifestyle Medicine
Children's Hospital of Colorado
Senior Instructor
Department of Pediatrics | Section of Nutrition
University of Colorado School of Medicine

Suzanne Paul, FNP-C
Program Coordinator
Lifestyle Medicine
Children's Hospital of Colorado
Senior Instructor
Department of Pediatrics | Section of Nutrition
University of Colorado School of Medicine

Claudia Wies, FNP-C
Lifestyle Medicine
Children's Hospital of Colorado
Instructor 
Department of Pediatrics | Section of Nutrition
University of Colorado School of Medicine

Mayra Baca is a pediatric nurse practitioner in the Children's Hospital Colorado Lifestyle Medicine and Endocrinology clinics. Her primary role is triaging and seeing patients suspected to have Type 2 Diabetes. In addition, she also works in LM1 and the multidisciplinary PCOS clinics. She has been in this role for about a year and a half. She has been with Children's Hospital Colorado since she was twenty-one and absolutely loves it. 

Amy Bartoshesky is a family nurse practitioner and senior instructor in Department of Pediatrics, Section of Nutrition. She works clinically in the Lifestyle Medicine Program, where she has been for almost 7-years. Amy's primary role in this multidisciplinary clinic is medical management of obesity and related comorbidities in patients ranging from infancy to young adulthood.  

Suzanne Paul is a Family Nurse Practitioner currently coordinating a team of providers working with overweight and obese children and adolescents at Children's Hospital Colorado known as Lifestyle Medicine. Suzanne began her nursing career after graduating from the University of Virginia School of Nursing with a Bachelor's degree in Nursing. Following graduation from Emory University with a Master's in Nursing, she began her career as a Nurse Practitioner in management of the HIV positive child, adolescent, and pregnant women. In her role in the Children's Hospital Immunodeficiency Program (CHIP), Suzanne managed patient's medical needs as well as increased her skills in research protocol management. In 2015, Suzanne was accepted into the Duke Johnson and Johnson Nurse Leadership Fellowship in Raleigh, North Carolina. During her fellowship, she created a Telemedicine Clinic for the CHIP clinic. In 2019, she completed the EPIC Physician Builder certification in addition to the Physician Power User certification. She currently serves as a provider informaticist for the Department of Nutrition in the Section of Pediatrics at University of Colorado School of Medicine.

In her role in Lifestyle Medicine, she has increased the clinic's Telehealth presence throughout the state of Colorado and surrounding states. During the COVID-19 Pandemic, she successfully transformed the Lifestyle Medicine clinical program from 95% in person visits to 100% telehealth visits for both medical providers and dietitians. Most recently, as a student in the Doctoral in Nursing Practice executive leadership program at University of Colorado (expected graduation December 2023), she has designed and implemented an AgileMD pathway in the electronic medical record system for proper identification and treatment of children with elevated liver enzymes and elevated blood pressure readings.

Claudia Wies is a Family Nurse Practitioner and instructor in the Department of Pediatrics, Section of Nutrition. She works in the Lifestyle Medicine Program helping children, adolescents and young adults along with their families manage obesity and related comorbidities.  

Objectives

• Review the Lifestyle Medicine Program at Children's Hospital Colorado 
• Explore key action statements of 2023 AAP Clinical Practice Guidelines for Children and Adolescents with Obesity
• Discuss new treatments and management of hypertension in children with obesity
• Describe recognition and referral guidelines for patients with Type 2 Diabetes
• Discuss anti-obesity medications available to treat pediatric patients

Disclosure for Conflict of Interest 

Planners, faculty, and others in control of content (either individually or as a group) have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.

At the start of the session, learners must report attendance by texting the SMS code below to Continuing Education at 720-790-4423 or on your desktop via https://ce.childrenscolorado.org/code

SMS CODE: MAGGAF

This learning session is offered virtual via Zoom. Zoom Link provided upon registration.