Promoting Health without Harm in Pediatric Weight Discussions

Join Leiya and Dr. Lauren Hartman for an in-person discussion on how weight stigma in healthcare is impacting children and adolescents. Learn tips and strategies for having these conversations with parents and patients in a way that is promoting health and not causing harm. 

Many of us have struggled with our words when patients ask us about their BMI and weight.  We know the high prevalence of eating disorders and we're navigating all of the promotion around weight loss medications.  This talk can be useful for Pediatricians, Family medicine doctors, NPs, PAs, nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, school counselors who are on the receiving end of questions about weight/BMI and want to have these conversations thoughtfully.  

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About Dr. Hartman

Dr. Lauren Hartman is double board certified in Adolescent Medicine and Pediatrics. Her educational background includes completing medical school at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, completing her pediatric residency at Brown University where she also served as chief resident, and her adolescent medicine fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. She has held numerous leadership positions including the chair of adolescent medicine at Kaiser Permanente for Northern California, the director of the pediatric eating disorder program in the East Bay, and she served as the West Coast medical director at Equip. She also helped create programs and held leadership positions in multidisciplinary programs for gender expansive youth and pediatric autonomic disorders. She has recently opened a private practice in Oakland, Aspen Grove Adolescent & Young Adult Medicine.

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