Radcliffe Medical Education is hosting a symposium entitled 'What Matters to Patients: Metabolic Health Beyond Weight Loss' at the European Congress on Obesity 2023 in Dublin, IE, on Wednesday 17 May at 16:15 - 17:45 IST (Irish Summer Time).

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Overview

In this symposium we join Prof Jason Halford (University of Leeds, UK), Dr Lee Kaplan (Obesity, Metabolism and Nutrition Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, US), Dr Fatima Cody Stanford (Massachusetts General Hospital, US), Prof Filip Knop (University of Copenhagen, DK) and Susie Birney (ECPO, Dublin, IE) as they guide us through the evolving landscape of metabolic health management in obesity.

The faculty discuss current unmet needs in obesity; the use and impact of patient reported outcomes; emerging clinical and pre-clinical data; and future strategies for the management of obesity and metabolic health.

EASO 23 IME Symposium: What Matters to Patients: Metabolic Health Beyond Weight Loss’ program: Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) has provided funding for this program. BI has had no input into the agenda, presentations or collateral content. Radcliffe Medical retains full and sole editorial control. It is not intended for healthcare professionals based in the UK or Ireland.

Learning Objectives

• Describe the global incidence of obesity and limitations of existing pharmacological approaches

• Recall pre-clinical data for emerging dual GLP-1/GCGR agonists in obesity 

• Recall clinical and safety data from dual GLP-1/GCGR agonists in obesity 

• Discuss the potential clinical impact of novel obesity agents 

• Describe a standardised approach toward patient reported outcomes in obesity

We will be hosting part two of this symposium at the EASD 2023 in October in Hamburg, Germany. More information to follow; we hope you can join us!