Presented by Children's Hospital Colorado

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the key changes in the 2023 American Academy of Pediatric guidelines for treatment of pediatric obesity. 
• List recommendations for comorbidity assessment in pediatric obesity.
• Know when consideration of pharmacotherapy and/or bariatric surgery is warranted in pediatric obesity treatment. 
• Recognize the most common operations and perioperative pathway used for pediatric bariatric surgery. 

Faculty:

Megan Kelsey, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Section of Endocrinology
Medical Director of Lifestyle Medicine and of Adolescent Bariatric Surgery
Children's Hospital Colorado

Disclosures:   

Megan Kelsey, MD, speaker for this activity, is a site principal investigator for Rhythm Pharmaceuticals and a site sub-investigator for Eli Lily Pharmaceuticals.

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

All of the relevant financial relationships listed have been mitigated. 

Accreditation:  Children’s Hospital Colorado is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Children’s Hospital Colorado designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.