2020-10-29 OMA Agenda - Board of Trustees

KEY RESOURCES 1. STOP Obesity Alliance: http://stop.publichealth.gwu.edu/ 2. Obesity Action Coalition: https://www.obesityaction.org/ 3. Obesity Medicine Association: https://obesitymedicine.org/ 4. American Family Physician – Obesity: https://www.aafp.org/afp/topicModules/viewTopicModule.htm?topicModuleId=19 5. American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery: https://asmbs.org/ 6. The Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity - Weight Bias and Stigma: http://www.uconnruddcenter.org/ 7. Harvard University. Project Implicit: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html 8. American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists Nutrition & Obesity Resource Center: https://www.aace.com/disease-state-resources/nutrition-and-obesity DISCLAIMER This white paper is not intended to provide inflexible rules or requirements of practice and is not intended, nor should it be used, to state or establish a local, regional, or national legal standard of care. Ultimately, choice of treatment should be individualized for each patient; healthcare practitioners must use their judgment in selecting from among the different feasible treatment options. The contributing societies caution against the use of this white paper in litigation in which the clinical decisions of a healthcare practitioner have been called into question. The ultimate judgment regarding the appropriateness of any treatment must be made by the individual practitioner, taking into consideration the available evidence and circumstances

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